Saturday, January 28, 2012

32nd Avenue floods because of bad paving

"So - as predicted, we got flooded today on 32nd Avenue because of the poor paving job. This was just a light rain...imagine what's going to happen when we get some serious downpours."






17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this how NYC wastes its money...
by hiring (possibly mobbed-up?) contractors to do then re-do a lousy job?

Anonymous said...

Why don't these people have curbs? If my curbs are bad I have to replace them. I am sure the pavement is not correct but wouldn't curbs help?

Anonymous said...

This has nothing to do with the contractors that just paved this street. All they did was re-pave a poorly pitched street with no curbs. If you look at the pictures, you will see that there is no grass growing, and all the dirt has been washed away right where all these puddles are now. This means that these puddles have been there for years, because the street has been pitched poorly for years. You can see in the video that was made just after the paving that there is no grass growing in all the same spots that there are puddles now. So please stop blaming these contractors for problems that have been there for years. These contractors are paid to tear up 3" of asphalt and then lay 3" of asphalt, that’s it. They are not paid to build you new curbs or to tear up the concrete that’s under the asphalt the whole length of the block to get a proper pitch. Maybe if enough people on the block complained about the Pitch and the curbs before the street was paved, you would have had a shot of getting it fixed properly. Complaining about it after the fact is a waste of energy.

Anonymous said...

Who ever keeps complaining about this street paving is a real joker. I encourage everyone to use Google Street View to take a look at what the street looked like before it was paved. It’s 32nd AVE between 146th and 147th STs. The cobble stone was level with the pavement on most of the block when Google took the pictures in Oct of 2007. This poster’s argument is that pavement it too high, coming to the top of the cobble stone. So not only did the contractor not do anything different than was there before, but could you imagine the flooding if the contractors made the pavement lower in these areas like he wants…
The real answer would be to make the pavement thicker in the spots where there are puddles now, so the street would be higher there and the water would flow away. However, this would mean having to get rid of the Cobble stones and installing much taller curbs. And if they did that, this same poster would be posting to Queens crap that they took away his beautiful cobble stone curbs!!

Queens Crapper said...

Yes, the street has been pitched poorly for years. Because of poor street paving contractors. They are supposed to mill the street down a few inches and then pave so that it's at the same level as it was prior to paving. That was not done here this go around and wasn't done the last time, either. They did not mill down far enough and then paved, which makes the street higher than it should be and causes ponding after rain. Common sense.

Anonymous said...

For some reason, the city installed new curbs on my block in Broadway-Flushing over the Summer. The street had probably been paved about 10 years ago, and the contractor who did the paving did not re-set the stone curbs, so they were crooked, some were missing, etc. Not sure why they suddenly did the concrete curbs a decade later, but it looks much better.

georgetheatheist said...

This site is so-o-o educational.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone have a definitive answer to who is responsible for replacing the many crumbling curbs of Queens? The city or the homeowner? I always thought it was the city's responsibility... but did that change at one point in time?

Silver Screen said...

Bogart:
"I came here for the waters".

Rains:
"There is no water in Casablanca, Ricky".

Bogart:
"Well there's plenty here Louis, thanks to some well connected paving contractor".

Anonymous said...

It sounds like a friend of the mobbed up contractor who did this shoddy re-paving is defending his budies.

The bottom line is that this is a TULY CRAPOLA JOB!

The proof is in the puddling and the pooling.

These pictures are worth a thousand excuses!

So stop trying to jerk our chains with your Google history lesson pix!

Save that kind of shit for your next construction workers union meeting...phony ass!

a resident said...

Yeah...well I live in Broadway-Flushing too and my street sucks.

Maybe you live next to (or are) a family that has some juice with NYC to get such a nice curb job.

Well, I got the shaft with mine.

Queens Crapper said...

The bottom line is that the DOT is responsible for the condition of the streets and the curbs and they failed at both. Where is their oversight of their contractors? Where are their engineers?

Anonymous said...

Maybe you live next to (or are) a family that has some juice with NYC to get such a nice curb job.

No, but there was a rumor that there might have been a trip-and-fall claim filed against NYC because of the shoddy curbs. They were replaced and we didn't have to pay anything - although our real estate taxes go up every year, of course.

Anonymous said...

The same thing happens in front of my house. No city agency seems to be responsable, even when contacted by our elected officals.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the clarification, Crapper!
I thought it was the city's responsibility. I guess there's no DOT money left for curbs after blowing it all on bike lanes and pedestrian malls. What screwed-up priorities this administration has!

Anonymous said...

#3, "maybe if enough homeowners on your block complained that the DISINTEGRATED curbs needed replacement before the asphalting. you would have had a shot "?

see Q.C(2010) photos of 42 avenue center dividers ,curbs, from F.L.B. to Clrvy Expy.

we contacted the D.O.T. thru Halloran/Padavan/ C.P.B 11, PRIOR TO ASPHALTING. AND THEY PAVED ANYWAY ,WITH A RESULT OF FLOODED INTERSECTIONS. Maybe a photo op. democrat politician would have solved the problem ???do you think ??? classwarfare exists in Queens ,BIGTIME Punish your constituents for electing a conservative.

as an added insult, the D.O.T. workers parked their cars on center dividers, and driving over the crushed curbs. i took photos. i might send them to Q.C.

Anonymous said...

C'mon now,
I'd hardly call that pooling, after a heavy rain, flooding.

Come to Fresh Meadows to see some real flooding!