On St. Marks Place and down 2nd Avenue where I was filmed around the corner on NY1 for a medium size water main break these two blocks keep reopening like old wounds....do you think there is a bigger problems here and it has been years and through the city -- gas smells, man hole cover explosions, sink holes, sewage and water main breaks and the streets just look awful.....Here I am calling 311 about a gaping hole that went down several feet; I was on the phone for 30 minutes?, transferred to 911 which I wasn't crazy about the idea but I didn't want anyone injured and there was zero response.....
part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefGTKLNJQc
And here we are today, after everything repaired back to square one yet again and this has been going on for years....
Here is the link for the watermain break around the corner and underscores the reckless tsunami of development that the Bloomberg administration pushed with too many infrastructures shot but the "speed of greed" for developers like NYU, Cooper Union and other real estate magnates was more important than our safety. Cooper Union plans to get away with more real estate murder supersizing yet again by the rotted dilapidated Cooper Stations subways that are so rotted they leak on rainy days....ditto by NYU supersizing at Union Square, I have video of leaking of rotted pipes on sunny days posted on youtube and that is also documented and posted on my youtube series.
http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?SecID=1000&ArID=69978
I emailed Dan Doctoroff and told him you and the mayor are going to be leaving a mess for the next mayor -- this is so dangerous this tsunami of development, the infrastructure and I was sent an reassuring email by some woman from city hall and than we had the steam pipe explosion by Grand Central that looked like a terror attack.
Every where you go the streets are a mess, better I am sure in Colonial Times and some of the pipes that burst are from before the Civil War like the water main break in the West Village and every time we have them it hurts small businesses and even displaces people, ditto for all the construction accidents and how many lives were lossed and people injured in infrastructure related incidents and construction.....? Answer TOO MANY!!!!!!!!!!
+ Also please note I had a letter published in AM New York Destroying Old New York before The New York Times piece by William Yardley on infrastructure dangers and before the steam pipe explosion by Grand Central and as usual I had to deal with sexism (you can't imagine how I am treated, condescended to) but how sad was the truth validated what I talked about and warned people about and we are not out of the woods yet.
When you are a woman and you speak up it is like a woman that is raped and murdered -- you are some how suspect, you are discounted in the worst most insulting ways and surprise it can be from woman as well, from people that are suppose to be liberals even from people telling me they are engineers but I was to be proven right again and again on this issue which I addressed as a city wide concern.
My youtube on my letter in AM New York and William Yardley's piece on infrastructure....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-x9xCEUR3w
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/07/httpwww_27.html
Above link has the same street being worked on last year and my analogy to many infrastructures in jeopardy of collapse including pension catastrophe and of course the tax payers will be paying and paying in way too many ways....
