Water Tunnel
The Cobblestones Return
Well, the re-construction of Gansevoort Street and Seravalli program is obviously a big embarrassing mess, nonetheless, it is nice to see that one promise is being kept: the cobblestones are being returned to their rightful place on Gansevoort Street, and the craftsmen are doing a beautiful job placing them just so. Welcome back... »
Seravalli Park Update
The DEP was supposed to have finished their work within 18 months of starting. Clearly this has not happened. There was a lot of discussion about when they actually started so they are anywhere from 2 years to 5 years late. In any event, they will be finished this portion of... »
Seravalli Playground Redesign Report
So here’s the skinny: Since our community playground, Seravalli Park, won the lottery as a host for the 5 year dig to create Shaft 27B of Water Tunnel 3 (ooh, I’m so smart and technical), we get 2 MILLION dolllars to rebuild the park after the water tunnel shaft is complete. ... »
Seravalli Playground Planning ReDesign & Budget
Are you interested in the rebuilding effort for Seravalli Playground? The CB2 Waterfront, Parks, Recreation & Open Space committee (what a mouthful) will be meeting on Monday, 4/9 at 7pm at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center (3 Clarkson Street, 3rd Floor) to hear a report on DEP funds for the project, and... »
The Big Dig in our little Park
Howdy Neighbors, Looks like the great explosions in the bottom of the big dig aren’t so bad after all. Phew! Check out this article from The Villager with lots of fun technical details about the dig as well as (keep reading, all the way, there it is!) a QUOTE FROM YOURS TRULY!! Julie Culver... »
The Great Dig becomes The Great Blast
Check it out. Our little disaster site in the Seravalli Park will shortly move into the “blasting” period, which is scheduled to commence on Monday April 24th and will last for a period of two to three months. [Correction per Bruce Solomon - the flyers say the blasts will be under Hudson and Gansevoort... »
A Neighbor’s concerns
From Ellis at 61 Horatio: Do you think the Prostitution issue, especially at the corners of Horatio Street and Greenwich Street and Jane Street and Greenwich Street could be addressed AGAIN? Ditto the endless all night horn-honking? I recently contacted the Sixth Precint to inquire who controls where the construction site at Gansvoort and Greenwich places their... »
Residents Write In – Is it still noisy?
So, what with my crazy work schedule, whenever i’m around, so is the construction crew for watershaft 27b, making it a bit difficult to figure out just where the various noises are coming from. If it weren’t so awful, I’d have to laugh at the irony that the noise from the DEP-sanctioned construction site... »
Watershaft 27B – Only until Sept. ‘07 – ha!
Oy – Read it and weep, folks; the hell is just starting. Here is the schedule for the construction of watershaft 27B at Gansevoort, in the Seravelli Playground. PART I (April – June ’05) – Utility Relocation, Shaft Collar (concrete ring @ top of shaft), Freeze Pipes, Drill Raise Bore Pilot Hole and Utility Hole,... »
MAY CB2 Meetings – Important Local Concerns
Community Board 2 has just released the May schedule (all meetings open to the public) and there’s a lot of interest including a bird-flu review (ew!), a proposal to transform the L train to a conductor-less train, and lots more of specific interest to the street (with my thoughts on why): Mon, 5/2, 6:30pm, WATERFRONT... »
Report – Dishy news from the Annual Horatio Street Association Meeting
News first (er, gossip): The renovation where the Woolco building was? To become retail space and offices for THEORY – - more twiggy models to stride our streets. Although I’m sure the (rumored) new Emeril restaurant in the space next to PM will bring ‘em too. With all that traffic, it’s been suggested we... »
More info promised! DEP writes back ASAP!
So John Leonforte of the DEP got back to me very quickly (bold is my emphasis: I am, as usual, especially excited about the cobblestone info): “I have forwarded your e-mail to our Chief of 3rd Water Tunnel Construction requesting him to supply you with an outline of upcoming construction activities. I wish to assure... »
Details on the Dig? Not from the DEP…
I went to the CB2 meeting tonight at Housing Works in search of info on the great dig (for the water shaft) that started in the Seravelli playground and has terribly disrupted our neighborhood in the shoddiest, messiest, most awful way. Well, there was little info to be had: DEP, the agency running the... »
Meeting Scheduled to discuss Water Shafts/that annoying construction on Gansevoort!
State Assembly Member Deborah Glick wrote back to my email to let me know that Community Board 2’s Traffic and Transportation Committee will be having a discussion of the water tunnel project tomorrow night 4/19 at 7:00pm at Housing Works 320 West 13th Street 4th floor Conference Room C. The water tunnel project? ... »
Nancy Drew and the Case of Shaft 27B
Thanks to Michael (aka Nancy Drew),here’s some more info on the great dig: The water shaft is entitled Shaft 27B…here is some detail about it: New York City County – The NYC Department of Environmental Protection, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed City Water Tunnel No. 3, Stage 2, Shaft 27B will not have... »
What is being built in the playground between Horatio & Gansevoort?
Mike S., horatio Street resident writes in to ask… Well, it’s a water shaft for the New York’s City Tunnel No. 3, one of the most complex and intricate engineering projects in the world. Constructed by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the tunnel will eventually span 60 miles and is... »
And so it begins…
This morning, at precisely 7:30am, I awoke to the sound of drilling. Even thuogh I’m one and a half blocks away, five flights up and sleeping with my windows closed, it sounded like it was right outside. There is no going back to sleep; clearly, the water-shaft drilling is an inescapable noise.... »
The 5-Year Dig….or the case of the missing cobblestones
Major construction to build a water shaft on Gansevoort, between Hudson and West 4th Street began last week. Our beautiful trees are gone, the cobblestones have been uprooted (did they save them? will they replace them?), and we are going to be subjected to heavy drilling noise for the NEXT TWO YEARS! ... »
