This block has been an eyesore for SIX months
Residents of a Brooklyn neighborhood had to live with mounds of construction materials and debris for months even though repair work on their street ended in August — until someone got The Post involved.
Piles of bricks, pipes, sandbags and construction barriers blocked parking spots, impeded the sidewalk and made for an unsightly mess in what officials said was a pedestrian-ramp project requiring work on catch basins.
But residents said complaints to the city got them nowhere.
Paul Dixon, who lives outside the site at Greenwood Avenue and East Second Street in Windsor Terrace, said he called 311 at least twice but got no action.
“It’s almost six months that I haven’t seen someone working there,” he said. “If they’re finished, why don’t they remove all the debris they left there?”
A neighborhood resident who walked by the pile of construction junk this week called it a long-standing “eyesore.”
Dixon notified The Post via the paper’s new Fix New York ser- vice aimed at addressing reader concerns about issues in the city.
After inquiries to the DOT late Thursday, the sewer-repair contractor, Triumph Construction, was summoned the next morning to clean up the site.
“There’s no work being done at the moment but there’s a per- mit,” said an employee at the Bronx firm. “Whether the residents complain, we have permission to be there.”
DOT officials said the job is expected to be wrapped up in the spring, when warmer weather will allow for concrete to be poured.
They did not provide an explanation for why the work was put on hold in August, when the weather was also warm.
After the site was cleaned, Dixon said he was wowed by how quickly the city took action.
“Now we’re getting the neighborhood back to where it should be. Us folks that live here, I’ve been here since ’77, we do our best to try to make things right,” he said.
“I really do appreciate you stepping up,” Dixon added. “They did take heed of the mighty New York Post.”