The Metropolitan Transit Authority plans to improve street conditions to help retailers along the construction route of the Second Avenue subway, according to an exclusive article by Tom Namako in today's edition of The New York Post.
The article said that the MTA will undertake a wide-scale overhaul of the safety and amenities along the route and the work will involve repaving sidewalks and intersections, increasing pedestrian space near storefronts. It also said that the agency will "crack down on contractor cleanliness, demanding that there's no garbage or excess filth around the work area when they leave at night."
Under the plan, the article continued, "ugly concrete barriers will be painted" and "construction noise will be decreased" and "crosswalks will be repainted."
"These are simple things that will make people happy, so people can actually be in that area and not hate every day they live there," Michael Horodniceanu, president of the MTA's Capital Construction Company, told The Post.
He said that the improvements will not be finished for six to eight weeks.
Barry Smith, who runs GGMC Parking on 92nd Street, told The Post that "the businesses have been losing both foot traffic and vehicular traffic since this began," adding that "People avoid the area because it's so unattractive."
The article said that the MTA will undertake a wide-scale overhaul of the safety and amenities along the route and the work will involve repaving sidewalks and intersections, increasing pedestrian space near storefronts. It also said that the agency will "crack down on contractor cleanliness, demanding that there's no garbage or excess filth around the work area when they leave at night."
Under the plan, the article continued, "ugly concrete barriers will be painted" and "construction noise will be decreased" and "crosswalks will be repainted."
"These are simple things that will make people happy, so people can actually be in that area and not hate every day they live there," Michael Horodniceanu, president of the MTA's Capital Construction Company, told The Post.
He said that the improvements will not be finished for six to eight weeks.
Barry Smith, who runs GGMC Parking on 92nd Street, told The Post that "the businesses have been losing both foot traffic and vehicular traffic since this began," adding that "People avoid the area because it's so unattractive."
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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