Potholes and sinkholes dominate Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights streetscape
The crane dug into the dirt, filling yet another bottomless sinkhole over six feet wide on a breezy Friday afternoon near the corner of 77th Street and Sixth Avenue, the latest of 69 potholes and sinkholes confirmed by this paper as of the end of July, 2017, all in the Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights area.
“It’s 2017, and you still feel like you’re riding on a horse and buggy,” said President of the Dyker Heights Civic Association Fran Vella-Marrone. “Our streets are the emergency situation and these are things that are vital. It behooves my city to fix this, and we’re not correcting the base problem.”
For the 2017-2018 fiscal year, the city has allocated .17 percent of its expense budget to the Department of Transportation (DOT). The $140,953,229 the DOT has received will be split among the five boroughs, of which an even smaller fraction will be spent on Brooklyn street maintenance according to expense budget on the website of the New York City Council.