Last month, Gossips reported the list sidewalks to be replaced this year using Sidewalk Improvement District funds. At last night's Public Works Board meeting, Tyler Kritzman, who chaired the meeting in the absence of Gary Purnhagen, presented a revised list.
- Third Street from Union to Partition streets, west side
- Fifth Street from Rope Alley to State Street, east side
- Fifth Street from State Street to Long Alley, both sides
- Fifth Street from Prison Alley to Warren Street, west side
- Fifth Street from Warren to Union streets, west side
- Sixth Street from State to Columbia streets, west side
- Sixth Street from State Street to Long Alley, east side
- Sixth Street from Rope Alley to State Street, west side
- Fifth Street from Cherry Alley to Union Street, east side
- The 700 block of Warren Street, from 711 to 731
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We should be told what the linear or square footage of new sidewalk is so we can figure out the price per foot. It's looking pretty high, that's for sure.
ReplyDelete5th street from Cherry to Union on the east side (in front of Spark) as an alternative? There's nothing wrong with that sidewalk! And if there is something wrong that I'm missing, there are much worse sidewalks in town besides the others they've chosen.
Thanks to the two car entrances for the bank at Warren & 5th, the sidewalk from Cherry to Warren on the east should be on the to do list as it is missing four curb cuts that the bank should have been forced to Install years ago. No enforcement of the code, raise taxes, create fees, take forever to fix sidewalks at 2,000 linear feet per year.
Let's say it's 3,000 linear feet of sidewalk that gets done in this first round of annual repairs. That's $100 per12 inches of new sidewalk. Sounds unsustainable to me.
Whatever happened to the lawsuit between the resident who fell on the sidewalk (in the image) and sued Galvan, who in turn (if memory serves right) sued the City of Hudson and the food vendor (whose customers blocked the sidewalk)?
ReplyDeleteIf the City simply enforced the sidewalk law 10, 20 years ago... Galvan would have fixed the sidewalk, no resident slip and fall, no devastating injury, no lawsuits... taxpayer money saved.
I was told last week by an employee of the vendor that after two years the suit was dropped (dismissed?) days before it was to go to trial. They had hired a lawyer, and yes, the City was involved, which I was not aware of. How much did the city attorney bill us for that work which came to nothing?
DeleteI live on Sixth Street from Rope Alley to State Street, west side ... I have had no notification of replacing my sidewalk ... nor do I want my 'historic' slate slab sidewalk replaced with concrete ...
ReplyDeleteI've met with a rep of the 'sidewalks' ... informed me ... there is a 'work around' for slate sidewalks with minor modifications to the existing ...
DeleteThere are some really ankle breaker sidewalks on Court Street in front of expensive brownstones.
ReplyDeleteYes, plenty of bad sidewalks in front of houses that spent hundreds of thousands to renovate, but couldn’t spare a couple more to fix the sidewalks. Now we all have to pay for these derelicts. Code enforcement should not give certificates of occupancy and close permits until sidewalks are up to code.
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