article on how the infrastructue break harms individual lives

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/26/2008-05-26_water_main_bust_vics_hit_really_hard.html

I posted this on The New York Daily News site in response to the article....


More sad news and how do the Dempsey's recover from this? The tsunami of over the top community crushing development was done on "old" New York's infrastructure and I am told that pipe was from before the Civil War. Here is the link to see me standing by a "medium" size water main break in the East Village last year. Just like DOB, I believe DEP could not keep up with the rush to supersize and develop the city and people and businesses crushed by infrastructure related issues are pushed out.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=69978&search_result=1&stid=8
All along we have been saying safety first. The water main break in the East Village that looked like the East River came to 2nd Avenue I believe was caused by all the construction one block away by Cooper Union but of course they deny it completely but even in this article the DEP rep says vibration, etc but the city would not hold Cooper Union and 2 blocks away Cooper Square Hotel in anyway accountable so the developers supersizing walk away and the community that can't bounce back gets pushed out.

Here is my letter in AM New York from Jan. 11 2007 and believe me I wrote City Council, Dan Doctoroff, DEP and I did hear back from Dan Doctoroff's office assurance everything was fine and Betsy Gotbaum did open up a case file in response to my concerns about NYU and St. Ann's.

Here is the letter:

 

Thursday, January 11, 2007 (That is right last year before the horrifying infrastructure break mid-town but after Jodi Lane died here in the East Village.)

Destroying "old" New York

I continue to write the mayor about over the top development of this new hideous New York being built on the old infrastructure. Also, how the gas smell may be somehow related to this issue, which has been completely ignored by the Bloomberg administration. A powerful example is next door to me, St. Ann's Church from 1847, which was torn down. St. Ann's, where religious staff members resided and homeless people slept on the stairs, now will be replaced by another hideous NYU megadorm an the tallest building ever in the East Village, with 700 students. But New York City, NYU and Hudson Realty have never answered questions about infrastructure concerns like sewage removal, water, electricity, etc. Stop the exploitation and start protecting the people of New York City!
Suzannah B. Troy
Manhattan