NYC's many infrastructures seem to being going the way of Wall Street and for the same reasons, greed and stupidity.
Note: After speaking at a City Council Task force meeting on DOB Dec. 4. 2006, I wrote letters to Betsy Gottbaum and James Oddo about infrastructure concerns. Betsy opened up a case file on my specific concerns re: 120 East 12th St. St. Ann's that was being torn down by NYU + with air sale by the USPS. I wrote her about infrastructure concerns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/us/08sink.html
Above link to article "Gaping Reminders in Cities of Aging, Crumbling Pipes" by William Yardley Feb. 8, 2007
My letter "Destroying 'old" New York came out the month before, Jan. 11, 2007 and 6 months later almost to the date the city did have an infrastructure break so horrifying that it did resemble a terror attack as sited in The New York Times article.
I read you several of my letters published and when I hear people say why wasn't anything done, why didn't people speak up regarding the mortgage meltdown, the financial crisis wall street meltdown -- I have been speaking up for years now about what I feel is the same thing but with real estate and infrastructure problems and DOB above aground and DEP below. I even handed in the letter about "old" new york to Con Ed, hand delivered it and wrote on it please ask the mayor to slow down. The mayor, city planner, Dollar Bill Dan Doctoroff all should have put infrastructure first before the tsunami of development. Look at what Cooper Union is doing right now by the two delipidated subway stations at Astor Place where it has supersized once already and is going for a 2 time with building that have nothing to do with higher ed but rather higher greed and at the community's expense in way too many ways!
Here is the link to the infrastructure break that does look like a terror attack.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/nyregion/19explode.html?_r=1
Here I am with a diverse group of community members by a medium size water main break one block from the Cooper Union supersizing of their studio building.
http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?SecID=1000&ArID=69978
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/25/2008-05-25_a_tsunami_soaks_village... The pipe that burst was from before the Civil War. You must click on the link and see the damage from this water main break.
Here is a photo of me at the DOB City Council task force meeting where I spoke up about too many construction workers dieing, this tsunami of development, the dire effects and it was only going to get worse above and below ground...
http://www.chelseanow.com/cn_12/builtupcomplaintssome.html
One of two water main breaks not from where Donald Trump as usual went against the communities wishes and supersized this time at Spring and Varrick. Check in to but John Air Space Sutter may have sold the air rights to Trump to supersize the building and he is the owner of the sell out paper that once was The Villager.
Note: A construction worker died at Trump site at Spring and Varrick as well.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6436241
If you search under my name in the youtube search engine Suzannah B. Troy infrastructure you will see a series of youtubes....
Here is a small infrastructure break I photographed with an FDNY fire truck's front wheel having fallen in to it as it just happened right on the spot by the Natural History Museum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuK8u8Pp7L4
Do the research, how many infrastructure related problems have we had under Bloomberg's tsunami of community crushing development?
We had how many deaths and injuries from construction related issues to infrastructure.
How many of us stood on the steps of city hall and asked the mayor, city planner and developers to slow down....
I know I stood with people fighting Columbia University and Ratner as well as me, I remember yelling NYU doesn't need to abuse eminent domain to get the job done.
Remember when the city has construction accidents and infrastructure breaks it often becomes yet another way people and small businesses are pushed out.
The infrastructures I am talking about include the MTA from economic state to the dangerous state of the subway stations where massive amounts of greedy supersizing by NYU and Cooper Union are just two examples to the service of the MTA going down and taking the people of this great city with it.
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glennjgd 1 year ago
The City currently does not really replace water, and sewer mains till they break. 700 million should be spent every year replacing sewer, and water mains before they break. the community crushing development has put a big stress on aging infrastructure.
gmcbuses 1 year ago