Squadron, Colleagues Continue Push for Lower Manhattan Construction Coordination
January 30, 2017
Senator Squadron and his lower Manhattan colleagues sent the attached letter to the City calling for continued lower Manhattan construction coordination. See the Downtown Express coverage of the letter here.
Downtown Express -- January 29, 2017
"Road-work rage: Pols rip city for overlapping Downtown street rip-ups BY COLIN MIXSON
A city proposal to rip up Warren St. has incited local legislators to renew their push for greater coordination and oversight of Downtown construction.
After the city announced that the two-year water-main replacement project would begin next month — even as a similar project continues on nearby Worth St. — local pols signed onto a letter drafted by state Sen. Daniel Squadron’s office to First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris calling on the city to assign a construction coordinator to Lower Manhattan to help mitigate the mayhem the Warren St. and Worth St. projects will wreak in Tribeca.
“Coordination from your office will ensure overlapping projects spanning multiple agencies and stakeholders will proceed on time and with minimal disruption to residents,” read the letter signed by state Sen. Daniel Squadron, Congreessman Jerrold Nadler, Assemblymembers Deborah Glick and Yuh-Line Niou, and Councilmember Margaret Chin, and Borough President Gale Brewer. “The recent announcement of a Department of Design and Construction water main reconstruction… highlights this concern.”
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