Construction

The construction fencing on Carlton Avenue is pinching the street too much and creating an ongoing unsafe condition.  Taller vehicles like trucks and buses cannot pass through the Avenue without hitting a tree.  The tree is old and beautiful and should be preserved.  The damage is both to the tree and the vehicles that pass.  
 

The crosswalk on this intersection has been unsafe and continuously shared between cars, trucks, bikers , construction trucks and pedestrians. The authorities, DOB, or the developers did not even bother painting a new crosswalk in a more safe location, indicating where pedestrians should cross to stay safeand away from cars. Several times a day there are no workers helping and indicating the way.

On Monday morning contractors associated with Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park apparently hit a tree on Carlton Avenue.  I was called by a Carlton Avenue resident who forwarded me the following text and the attached photographs.  I am sure the resident will speak to someone in oversight if they wish.
 

Construction delivery stops and idles at bus stop for 10 minutes while driver goes inside the construction fence on the opposite corner.

2014-10-08 work @ B3 until 9pm
http://youtu.be/yUU4vWPih1I
 

No flaggers several (picture attached) 18 wheeler for B3 site work blocks traffic and causes bus full of children who's driver view is blocked must travel into on comining traffic.
http://youtu.be/uMdm-VWAQUE
00:57 blocks traffic and causes bus full of children who's driver view is blocked must travel into on comining traffic.
 

http://youtu.be/wS_RGy1jRD0
Video & picture show uncontained dust releases @ B3 crane site prep into neighborhood!

In the spring of 2012, the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, a sponsor of Atlantic Yards Watch, commissioned a review of Atlantic Yards’ compliance with its stated environmental commitments, which was conducted by  Sandstone Environmental Associates of Metuchen, NJ. In addition to reviewing hundreds of incident reports submitted to AYW by community members during arena construction, Sandstone analyzed internal reports produced by Empire State Development Corporation’s (ESDC) environmental monitor, Henningson, Durham & Richardson Architecture and Engineering, P.C. (HDR). Sandstone’s final report documented significant issues of noncompliance with Atlantic Yards’ environmental commitments on the part of Forest City Ratner Companies and its contractors during arena construction, and made recommendations for improvements to be introduced in future phases of construction.

The Sandstone report received little acknowledgement by ESDC when it was published in July 2012. However, the report’s findings and recommendations were incorporated into the BrooklynSpeaks coalition’s response to the Draft Scope of Work for the Atlantic Yards Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in March 2013, and were also referenced in the group’s comments on the Draft SEIS (DSEIS) submitted in May 2014.

A review of the Final SEIS (FSEIS), released in June 2014, shows that ESDC and FCRC have adopted modifications of the Atlantic Yards construction mitigation and monitoring programs for future construction at the site. Although some of the changes appeared in the DSEIS, significant additions were made between the DSEIS and the FSEIS. Here is an outline of changes to the project’s monitoring protocols that parallel recommendations made by Sandstone and comments from community organizations.

Construction workers continued to work after hours outside of 752 Pacific Street. As the video links show, the workers went in and out of 752 Pacific. They were doing multiple things including moving and loading large equipment (including backing it up), throwing metal into a dump truck, and patching asphalt over two spots in front of the building.

They could be associated with the work in 752, or they could be associated with the drilling on the block. Which?

2014-07-16 parking on sidewalk starts - don't know owner(s)