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2009 Survey of needs
RED LETTERS INDICATE SEN. KLEINS STAFF AT WORK BLUE INDICATES Vacca's Office
involved PURPLE INDICATES COM.BD involved GREEN NOTES FPCom Advocates/BAAC/ or Fo FP park solving the problem |
Table of Contents:
Cover Page ..page 1
Table of Contents ..page 2Executive
Letter ..page
3& 4
Descriptions of problems with photos ..pages
5-29
Map with
corresponding locations to photos ..page 30
A
few recent pertinent letters attached ..pages 31 & 32
Updates and Additional concerns ..pages 32-48 plus
Ferry Point Community Advocates
(Addressing the Residential, Business & Environmental concerns of a mixed use area of 10465 Bronx, NY)
dpoggi@ferrypointpark.org
www.ferrypointcommunity.org
www.ferrypointbronx.org
716 Brush Avenue
Bronx, New York 10465
718-892-7303
To: Elected
Officials of Community Board 10, District 13; 5/20/09
Dear Elected Officials:
As the President of the “Ferry Point Community Advocates”
I have been trying to keep up with the daily problems affecting the area of Ferry Point which
lies along Brush Avenue. Through this continued advocacy I have also founded a “Friends of Ferry Point Park Group”
to obtain and direct hundreds of volunteers each year to enhance the West side of our neglected Park which lies adjacent to
this Community. I have reached out to Environmental groups and now serve on the BCEQ (Bronx Council for Environmental Quality)
Directors board. I am Vice President of HRRP (the Hutchinson River Restoration Project) and I am one of the core founders
of NEBCA (North East Bronx Community Alliance). I also run a registered TNR Cat Colony reduction group. We rescue neuter and
find homes for abandoned and orphaned animals mainly from our area of Ferry Point. While this has become a full time job,
I also run a small home business and I cannot continue to solve each problem individually. I have gathered the many issues
we face from the members of my community advocacy group and others. Now I am asking your office to help us help Ferry Point
(Brush Avenue) Bronx, NY.
As per
my conversation 1/16/09 with Navardo of James Vaccas Office , my short discussion with Ken Kerns District Manager of Com Bd.
10 on 5/5/09 and ongoing conversations with Patrick and John of Senator Kleins office, I
have photographed most and described each one of our needs. This compilation does not include many that we are working
to solve at present. These issues do not include the months of broken water lines due to the installation of the gas and electric
lines for Pepsi. The digging and weight of the backhoe and crane, created multiple water line problems. This exposed the need
to change over about 12 homes from a 6 inch 1920’s water main to the 8” 1950’5 water main while water was
shut off multiple times, and every water filter was clogged in the process. We have lived through the pounding noise of the
pilings, the yelling each morning of the workers, the construction crews parking throughout the neighborhood, the huge trucks
illegally using our small streets to turn around on the deliver the supplies to build this huge building.
We are growing more concerned each day for the safety of the
workers in these Brush Avenue companies, the pedestrians that pick up at UPS, and the neglect of our nearby “West Side”
of Ferry Point Park. We were here first, before the industry…we are still living here. In fact we have doubled our
families within the last few years.
In order to maintain the safety of our utility lines, directional signs, catch basins, trees, and
anything else that can be destroyed by turning trucks, we have to act now. The additional 120 plus “30 ft. trucks
per day (2 way trips=240), and the 14 Tractor trailers each (2 way =28) night need room to turn.
We have become the gardeners and sanitation crew that maintain
the “Driveway called Brush Ave.” of these many companies that now surround our homes. Cablevision, UPS, Liberty Plumbing, FP Industries, Wholesale Flowers, HOPenn, Artforms, Hellman Electric, Box Storage,
Senior Care Ambulette, Unitron Industrial Tubing, Scaffold Co., Home Depot, Bronx Bulk Mail Facility, thousands of trucks
filled with dirt for the future golf course, and now a Pepsi Distribution Plant (with one more 6 acre piece of property
left).All these large companies with hundreds of vehicles each within approx. 1 mile of very neglected and encroached on road.
This is a large task and we need your help. Since the Bronx wanted to “Grow” the Bronx holds a moral responsibility
to fix the infrastructure of the community it is destroying to build on. This is especially true for Brush
Avenue which offers thousands of jobs to local Bronxites.
We have photographed most of these problems and will be sending this package out to the offices of
our elected officials and a copy to our “Sister” Civic Group “Ferry Point Civic Association” and our
North East Bronx Community Alliance. We hope in this way to expedite the repairs or enhancements needed in our community of
Ferry Point. If you have a working relationship with our “Sister” group feel free to work with them on any of
these issues…but please send me the information so we can avoid duplicating the efforts of other offices and or our
members that are involved in this effort. (mail@ferrypointbronx.org) (fax 718-829-7165)
I apologize if this package is hard to digest, but we do not have a professional to organize the following photos
and issues, we did the best we could. We ask for help on these problems from your office. Please inform me (718-829-6863)
as to which issues you can help us with and which ones pertain to other representatives of our community. My group will be
glad to do whatever is necessary to back you up on these issues. (Meet with you, put in multiple calls to 311, send petitions,
write letters, arrange news media and or rallies?)
We await your call or letter, and thank you for your help in these matters,
Sincerely,
Dorothea Poggi
Dorothea Poggi/ President F.P. Community Advocates
*I have before and after photos of most
of these problems in our archive dating back to 2003. If you need any let me know.
CC: Mayor Bloomberg, Councilman James Vacca, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., District Manager Ken Kerns,
Senator Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Mike Benedetto, Congressman Joseph Crowley, NEBCA, Ferry Point Civic Association
Description
of Problems including Available Photos:
PARKING
Senior Care Ambulette:
This Ambulette Company has grown very fast. They have 30? Vehicles
at this point? During the day for their convenience
they line the streets with their vehicles. Then throughout the day their drivers double park to go in and out
of the office (with vacant nearby parking spots).They swing the door open and cars can’t pass. When passersby’s
indicate that they should move to stop blocking traffic they are rude and do not move but instead get out of the vehicle and
leave it there. This causes the oncoming northbound traffic to halt each time a southbound vehicle has to pass around the
double parked Ambulette. They stand there having conversations and coffee and look at you with their doors open and you have
to sit and wait until a spot opens in the other lane to get around them.
Thank You for ticket blltz that forced this company to get a legal parking area for their
growing business.
6/7/09 There is still a problem with double parking throughout the day and Ambulettes that park on sidewalk
in front of office.
Through 311 we have been able to stop the illegal night parking of these 30
vehicles (due to signs that post no standing from 10pm to 5pm).
Graffiti
We have a NO TOLERANCE agreement with all our established Companies that flourish
on Brush Ave.
Home Depot does not take care of graffiti on Bruckner..very
bad for neighborhood
Thank You Home
Depot for correcting this problem and keeping up with no Graffitti up to Oct 21, 2009 so far
JAY PLACE
Thank you….Sanitation: Abandoned cars on Jay Place/Street removed so Pepsi can complete sidewalk Attempts to call in to 311 and Sanitation result In Questions about
the location….of Jay Place
Illegal
Fence, signs and Abandoned cars on undeveloped Jay Place/Street behind Brush Avenue Homes leading to Senger
Place alongside Newly Constructed Pepsi Plant
TRASH CANS
Can we get some trash baskets along the Avenue?
We put out our own at 711 Brush, but the boxes from UPS “customer pick up” fill them to fast. Customers
remove small items from large packaging and discard boxes along our streets. Many cell phone boxes. They also put on new clothing
items and discard old ones (like boots).
BAAC has donated 4 pails with their logo on theem/Dotti Poggi empties the debris each week at least
once...
Holiday
season will be very dificult to keep up with....
Still 6/7/09 Complaints from various members and businesses state that Drivers
from Senior Care Ambulette on Brush Ave .clean out their vehicles onto the street
and sidewalk daily. UPS and Pepsi paper order forms are thrown in the streets, cups, lunch debris. Plastic packaging bags stick to US Mail
Depot barbed wire. We would like the Barbed wire removed
, and the dumpsters kept closed to prevent this mess (dumpster always
seen with plastic flying out as in distance in photo).
UTILITIES
HYDRANTS:
Hydrants
throughout neighborhood are not working…3 out of 7 broken according to DEP subcontractors HYDRANTS INSPECTED
LIGHTING:
This lamp post on Brush and Lafayette was
destroyed by turning Tractor Trailers it is
not there now
Has been replaced
SIGNAGE:
sign missing on corner of Brush and Lafayette replaced
STREET REPAIR
Combined with Need for sidewalks
Brush Avenue is maybe a mile long from
Bruckner Blvd. to Schley Ave.When a pedestrian, employee or
park visitor walks down from Bruckner to UPS near Yznaga these are the obstacles they have to walk through. Yes there are
sidewalks between these obstacles, but they vary in width, and West and East sides of the road. A person would have to zig
zag back and forth across the traffic to have a semi continous sidewalk. I have witnessed handicapped persons in wheelchairs
trying to negotiate through this area and I fear for their lives. Women with strollers have to remove their children and carry
packages and toddlers while dragging strollers behind them around muddy mosquito filled puddles or ice in winter. Either this
area should be upgraded to handle the safety of the pedestrian or they should close the UPS customers service imediately. As you enter Brush Avenue from Bruckner
near the Unionport Bridge, Whitestone Cinema and Home Depot.This
condition has existed for over 15 years that I know of. Between Unitron 960 and 999 Brush. Bruckner Blvd and Brush Ave. no sidewalks (horrific
for years)
The
Area of Brush Ave. as you enter from Bruckner near Home Depot is both dangerously pot holed and then there is an ongoing huge
array of muddy ponding of water with no sidewalks for the pedestrians between 905/906 and
999, Msgr. Scanlan Students and the employees of Brush Ave. Companies that take public transportation from Zerega or
walk from the Castle Hill /Zerega direction to Brush Ave. have to walk in the street at this dangerous
turn. 999 Brush Ave. has sidewalks, but the property next to them (with no displayed address that is owned
by (906) Brush “Unitron”) is ridiculous. We have called 311 for years about this muddy, messy, dangerous area
and nothing has been done. We hoped that when Home Depot came in that this obvious mess would be addressed. There was no change
except that the area is more utilized and spreads the mud and water further through our area. In the winter we have dangerous
ice and in the summer we have a dusty , wet, mosquito haven. Just imagine you’re walking with your child in a stroller
to pick up a package at UPS, you turn off the Union port Bridge, you walk 50 ft. and the sidewalk disappears, you walk through
100 feet of no sidewalks, dirt curbs, 4 large puddles or ice (that extend almost to the center of the street) as vehicles
turn at a pretty fast speed off of Bruckner into traffic on Brush Ave. This traffic may be stopped at the Home Depot Light
on the left lane or backed up due to a doubled parked Ambulette on the right either way you are a small object in this big
mess.
STREET has been graded and
paved, bicyle and safety lanes marked from Bruckner to Wenner Place
Sidewalks also needed :
Between 699 HOPenn and UPS,
680 (Brush/Jay),
682 Brush(on Jay Place)
708 Brush
710 Brush
712 (Brush/Senger) whole corner needs re evaluation
716 sidewalk from DEP manhole work Con Ed Paid?
720 homemade
722 Brush
724 Brush
728 (Brush/Rohr Place)
Com.Bd. Support letter at end
FLOODING due to no catch basins and bad street surface:
Senger and Brush
710 to 680 Brush Flooding each rain Senger to Jay Place Senger to Jay Place/Street Almost Jay Place to Pepsi
We have a double lined sewer which is
all ready for the catch basins…the “risers” were in place but the actual catch basins were never installed. As the weather changes
and the water table rises….we are suffering from basement flooding which is costing the residents quite a bit in water
proofing, paving, washing machines, dryers, oil burner repairs, sump pumps, damaged items, mold abatement, etc.…. The businesses and residents need catch basins along Brush Avenue. Pepsi has been built on a 6 acre piece
of property that used to absorb large amounts of rain as it fell to Ferry Point. With at least 4 acres of mature Forest sucking
up this rain, and being below grade the rest of the rain naturally flowed into this property. Now all cement and asphalt,
at least 5 acres will no longer absorb the rain. Much of it will be directed into the holding tanks and then into our double
lined sewers. This is only the direct rain water, not the water that used to drain from the entire area that has no catch
basins. Pepsi has filled and built up to grade, while the opposite side of Brush Avenue from Pepsi is 2 or 3 feet below grade
so the three huge catch basins that we asked for in Pepsi’s sidewalk will not help us much. The rain water will not
reach them and the trucks and cars will have to negotiate through a 2 foot puddle as was the case a few weeks ago and a three
car accident occurred.
DEP street hole: This
is a DEP emergency job hole in 712 Brush Avenue.
Actual work being done March 12 ,
Hole April 15, Hole still not addressed April 27,
Barricades removed May 22 but hole is still dangerously there
This Emergency DEP repair was not included in all the other sub contracted DEP water main transfers.
It is on the corner of Brush Ave. and Senger
Place
Pepsi in the distance
PARTIAL
FILL STILL BAD/ Partial again/ partial again/partial again/ Oct 19 partial again
Now you can continue
your walk to work or UPS of to the Park through the following mess. West sidewalk.
And this is what you have to walk on to get back to the bus stop from UPS
Customer Service and the West Side of Ferry Point Park Visitors that use Brush Ave. carrying picnic items and UPS packages. FLOODING AREA:
Street Name and register needed:
Combined with Street Repair continued…
911 “Ring Road" "Loop
Road on some maps” under Bx/Whitestone Bridge needs a name
in order to be placed on the 911 emergency call computer and the 311 repair computer. 8000 Soccer Players each Sunday, Park
employees, 700 volunteers per season, future Golf course employees and truck drivers, MTA TBTA toll booth and office employees,
all construction workers on the massive redesign of the Bridge approach, need to have access
to 911 emergency call computer. If there is no name on the street and no cross streets, an ambulance cannot come to
help you. The address of the Bridge is 1 Hutchinson River Parkway, but the 911 call computer does not have a cross street
for the park road. This road is in need of desperate repair. It is as bad as a road can get.
311 “Ring Road”
Holes we cannot report the need for repair to 311 because
there is no name and no cross streets so it is not on the 311 computer either. This
road is the future entrance to the Golf Course that is under construction for 11 years.
Ring Road Hutch. River Pkwy South goes under Bx/Whitestone
Bridge and comes out as Ring Rd. Hutch Riv. Pkwy. North
Truck from Land fill Entrance to East side of Park future Golf course
Bridge Maintenance East side of Bridge North Bound
THIS ROAD NEEDS A PROPER NAME (we recommend Ferry Point Park Lane
West & Ferry Point Park Lane East )These
names are shorter than “Hutchinson River Parkway Service Road South” and North which is how they are addressed
now. They also need signage.
Loop Road facing North on Hutch. Serv. Rd Nasty
Holes, Thousands of huge trucks with landfill have used and will continue to use this road. This was the road in Pepsi’s original Traffic study that allowed
the addition of 14 tractor trailers at night 24/7 to Ferry Point. They do not use the road. |
All of our streets need repair…except
Lafayette that needs safety lines
Bruckner to Wenner complete
SAFETY MARKINGS ON CORNERS NEEDED
These are the recommended safety non parking lines that James
Vacca at one time had placed on Lafayette and the Hutchinson River Pkwy S. Vacca had helped Pete Roublick 20 years ago to
address this problem. When the street was repaved the lines were removed 2 years ago Pete Roublicks Son was killed in an accident
at this intersection. We would like to get these lines replaced ASAP. This is a dangerous intersection not only for pedestrians,
but also for all vehicles smaller than a tractor trailer. The Bronx Bulk Mail Depot obviously has many trailers blocking the view of the traffic coming in many directions at this intersection, if we keep the cars
& trucks from parking close to the corners, it enables “all” to see what is coming their way whatever timing
is on whatever light. The wider ability to turn will also help with traffic flow and save some of the trees from destruction
due to the trailers having to jump the curb to turn in many cases when vehicles are on the corners. Also at Brush and Lafayette
the light post is gone, only the base remains with card board taped to keep out the rain? Between Brush and Hutch. Riv. on
the right side as well, the catch basin is always destroyed due trailers using it as a curb cut when it is not. There is also
a constant need to replace the directional, caution and no U turn signs on these corners due to the same trailer turning problem
(inviting dangerous situations and accidents). There should be a traffic calming /safety survey done at this location. Maybe
the US Mail Depot is supposed to not use this entrance for their huge trucks. They have the proper loading area on Brush Ave.
Lafayette and Hutch.River Pky. Site of many accidents…….one
this week
You
can see the truck turn marks in street
Corner Bus Stops are good because they keep vision clear at intersection except when Bus is there
then the view is badly blocked
Trucks
make illegal U turns here
Sign is
missing more time than it is there …………
Hutchinson River Pkwy Service Rd. South
needs repair
one
sunken manhole repaired Oct. 2009
What is this sidewalk marking on Hutch and Senger?
Previous Manager of Rental Place used for private parking and parked vehicles illegally on sidewalk
forcing pedestrians into street. No standing Signs should be place along entire Hutch South Service road to allow free movement
of trucks to New Pepsi Facility
Handi Capped coner placed in by Pepsi
How long will traffic wait until this truck actually makes the
turn into the Pepsi Facility????
I
had time to take out my camera, start photo from Senger Place and then sit and wait while the Trailer waited for 30 ft route
trucks to move from the area designated in the Pepsi drawing as for trailers only.
TREES and Landscaping:
When HOPenn was built there were 7 trees planted as street trees. There is one left. We would like to have these trees replaced.
Other Trees Needed: Along Brush
Ave. between Bruckner and Wenner there are many Street Trees missing or damaged, we want them replaced or placed?
As we all know by now trees are benefits to the air we breathe, especially in such a polluted
mixed use area due to truck exhaust emissions.
Oct. 19 2009 4 nice size street trees
planted along HOPenn
View North on Brush Ave. from Wenner Place
Note US Mail Depot plastic shredded material on barbed wire.
The area which is partially the end of undeveloped
Randall Ave. off Brush Ave. between HOPenn and UPS that is used for gas pumps and parking for UPS
needs some kind of Trees-landscaping .
UPS
customers and employees use this area to park. Being on a turn in the road, there should be a sidewalk.
_No Sidewalk still but bad drainage was repaired
with asphalt after DEP cleaned out debris from sewer runoff line_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Catch Basins / Drains Repair:
We have very few catch basins throughout this area. Quite a few homes suffer from flooded basements
during heavy rains. We have asked for Catch Basin installation to be considered in the last Com. Bd. 10
Budget request.
All catch basins
are important for this reason.
Important Catch Basins Destroyed
Near Bronx Bulk Mail Facility due to the lack of sufficient
catch basins on Brush Ave. each one is extremely important. This destroyed catch basin is located on Brush Ave/ East Side
and corner of Lafayette/ south side of the road
Lafayette Catch Basin The top of
this catch basin has been destroyed by trucks, located also on the Lafayette Ave/ south side (between Hutchinson River
Pkwy. Service road south and Brush Ave.US Bulk Mail Fac.)
Both have been repaired with cement
FLOODING AREA
Clogged “catch Basin type” Drains: This
is a low area of Brush Ave. we had no sidewalks and needed them. Drains were put in to reduce the huge pond we get at this
spot. There was a three car accident just a week ago with a car that got stuck in this deep puddle. Although we did get 2
“catch Basin type” Drains placed years ago, they are always clogged due to the muddy silt that fills them
which has been increased due to Pepsi construction.
Proper street construction needed:
Pepsi was too big a project for our
small neighborhood to handle without repercussions. There were 2 active water mains (a 6inch down 9-12 feet and a 8 inch down
4 feet) one of the lines had to be cut off after the many problems caused by installation of the gas and electric lines for
Pepsi. We need a proper cement street to safely support the large trucks from damaging
the new underground utility lines. Before Brush Ave. is repaved (according to DOT rumor) we believe it should
be properly upgraded to handle the that 120 30 foot trucks loaded with beverage products that will leave Pepsi each morning
7 days a week. This area from Pepsi to Wenner Place on Brush Ave.) has only 6 inches of Asphalt over dirt…there
is no rebar and cement which is normal for City streets. In a mixed use industrial zone we need to protect our water mains
and sewer lines. We now have Gas and Electric side by side on top of Water.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Unconstructed mapped street maintenance?:
This is the 30 ft Buffer zone that was required in the original ULURP procedure for the Pepsi site.
We wonder what is going to be done with the area which is the mapped but undeveloped street
of Jay Place that creates an L from Brush Ave. behind the homes and enters Senger Place alongside Pepsi. The questionable
area is along side but separate from this buffer zone which Pepsi is accountable for.
We don’t get a clear answer as to what will be going on there.
Pepsi replied that they will be clearing the area and putting grass? Yet they are handling it separately from the 30 ft buffer
zone/ according to the photos and observations of our members. Who will maintain this undeveloped road which now has piles
of broken tree debris on it?
30 ft Buffer next to PepsiSenger Entrance to un developed Jay Place/Street
Senger Entrance to un developed Jay
Place/Street Area next to 30 ft Buffer along side Pepsi and side of 710 Brush
Ave. Residential garage
2006
Entrance
to un developed Jay Place/Street from Jay Place/Street 682 Brush Avenue residence 2009
area of concern if the
Senger area is to be left full of debris? This area has to be reclaimed? Who will maintain it? Playground?
Community Garden?
area
of Jay Place/Street partially constructed into a dead end but mapped street has not been constructed
Only an area for fenced in passive recreation
would be possible here. There can be no parties held by community groups, no birthdays, no music, it is directly behind a
row of 7 homes. The property lines are strange due to the moving and replacement of 682 Brush onto Jay Place.
SIGNS NEEDED , Street should be widened to actual size
Senger Place recently became the only
2 way road in the residential area between Schley Ave. and Lafayette Ave. There are important signs missing. Both entrances onto Senger should say 5ton limit. The One way sign for the Hutch. Service road is pointed strangely.
We need a sign that says “no access to parkway” put on Corner of Brush
Ave. and Senger Place to stop vehicles from dangerously and illegally going North up a one way Hutch .Serv. Rd. South for
a block to enter the Hutch. Pkwy. South towards the Toll Booths at Rohr Place.
Senger Place
” Jay Place” is Historically Jay
Place according to survey photos from the NY Pub. Library from 1938.
We want the sign changed from “ Jay Ave.” and also make sure it is on the 911 and 311
and sanitation computers?
When an
ambulance is called they can not find Jay Place.
Reconfigure use of sidewalk and street areas that have encroachments
Senger place: Width
has a 15 foot encroachment along the residential (100 ft) property of 712 Brush Ave.
this property dangerously narrows the North side of the street and should be addressed ASAP. This encroachment was not a problem
until we reached development saturation. Now we need to address the residential encroachments to allow for pedestrians, parking
and help the traffic to flow safely.
Right
side of Photo has 15 ft encroachment into street of 712 Brush Ave.
Narrowing 2 way street into 1 dangerous lane especially pedestrians.
Jay Place Reconfigure widen to actual size? This dead end street (unless it is completed through to Senger Place at
some time)has been dug up during the Pepsi /ConEd/DEP construction. A sidewalk now juts into the middle of the pre-existing
use. A section of grass 2feet wide has been destroyed. This is sidewalk area, but it is important for water drainage (due
to no catch basins). The neighbors now have puddles of mud instead of their 25 years of well maintained grass. The pre-existing
grass has been turned into a muddy area and we wonder what will happen to this North side of Jay Place so far the residents
are asking for a sidewalk.
30
ft buffer along existing Jay place
What
type of fence will be facing the residents after the 30ft buffer is cleaned and landscaped?
Pepsi on left along 30ft buffer out of view and undeveloped Jay Place being used by resident as yard?
The
width of this street is now narrowed due to the large legal sidewalk from Pepsi protruding onto the old use of Jay Place.
Some abatement must be worked out, either the 10 foot encroachment of the 680 Residence should
be identified and side walked creating 4 parking spots or the existing narrowed road should be paved or the grass replaced.
As it is now the street is narrowed to a point of danger. A Pepsi representative has informed me that the sidewalk on the
Pepsi side will continue up to the end of Jay Place encouraging Parking yet narrowing the road from the existing use as the
only entrance to 682 Jay Place. There are 2 derelict cars on the undeveloped Jay Place alongside 682 Brush.
Thank
You in advance for any help you can give us…. Dorothea Poggi
Bruckner
Blvd 906 Brush
Ave.Unitron Inc.Box
Storage Inc.Hellman
Electric Inc./Senior
Care Ambulettes Inc.Lafayette
Ave.Wenner PlaceBronx Bulk Mail FacilityRohr PlaceSenger PlaceEnd of Randall Ave. Used as
Parking for HOPenn680 Brush Avenue & Jay PlaceUPS/ Cablevision Yznaga PlaceSchley Ave.Loop RoadFerry Point Park West & EastHutchinson River Pkwy. Service Rd. South & Service
Rd. North10 Ft
of loop road owned by MTA on each side of Bx/Whitestone Bridge and under it. Future Golf Course landfill East |
Ferry
Point Community Advocates
716
Brush Avenue, Bronx, NY 10465
718-892-7303
www.ferrypointpark.org
5/14/2009
Dear Virginia Gallagher,
At the last meeting of the Com. Bd 10
Parks & Recreation Committee, you announced that it was time to add any tree requests to your list. On Brush Avenue there
are many trees gone due to turning Trucks. We have worked hard to replace 24 trees over the last 15 years. The problem with
the Trailers Parking constantly turning and parking on Brush Ave. has finally been addressed. We feel it is safe to replace
the missing trees at this time (all along Brush between Bruckner and Wenner).
In addition to that area we especially
would like the area in front of HOPenn (699 Brush Ave.) to have the 7 trees that were originally in the design replaced. The
“sidewalk” area between HOPenn and UPS has been illegally used for years as a parking area for trucks that are
awaiting repair. This dangerous, flooded, muddy mess with no trees/bushes or sidewalks is home to an ugly 8ft”? galvanized
fence hiding the legally parked vehicles on the usurped end of Randall adjacent to the HOPenn Property on the Waterfront.
This company has usurped quite a bit of the area and although we were able to take some of these “ugly” encroachments
into our neighborhood we now have to “turn up the volume on Beauty” to make up for the gigantic Pepsi wall we
face each day instead of 6 acres of mature forest.
This area is directly across from the new Pepsi Plant and has now
become a concern to us due to the many UPS Pick-Up customers and employees that walk this area through difficult seasons of
water, mud, or ice. This is also physically the lowest area of Brush Ave. and the 2 small drains that were placed there years
ago fill with silt from the non side walked area constantly. There was a 3 car collision there 2 weeks ago. If you could have
someone address this area with a green streets or some trees it would be wonderful.
Thank You Dorothea Poggi
Sent by email…………………..
NEWS FROM BRONX COMMUNITY BOARD #10Contact K. Kearns at 718-892-1161 Each
year the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), at the Mayor’s behest requests that each of the City’s fifty-nine
(59) Community Boards submit their priorities for the upcoming fiscal year’s capital and expense budgets. Bronx Community
Board #10 dutifully conducted its public hearing to determine the needs of the community, and reported those needs, in the
form of budget priorities to OMB. Among these requests were the construction new sewers and the installation of catch basins
in Country Club, City Island, Throgs Neck and Ferry Point communities, the renovation
of parks in Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck, City Island and Zerega. The upgrade of roads in Pelham Bay, Zerega
and Co-op City, and the assignment of additional officers to the 45th Precinct. The agencies respond to these requests
in a document known as The Register of Community Board Budget Requests for the Preliminary Budget-FY 2010. The agencies
uniformly indicated that these requests were to be delayed, not funded or required further study. There
is no doubt that these responses reflect the very real fiscal constraints that our city is operating under. However, some
of our requests, especially those dealing with the drainage of storm water, are of paramount importance. In
the coming weeks, the Board will be reaching out to our elected officials, in the hopes that they will be able to convince
the central City government to release funds for these vital projects. Above is a clipping from Com Bd 10 news about Ferry Points requests
for catch basinsRequest given by Marcia Pavlica
of Country Club Civic, for Ferry Point Community Advocates who could not attend the meeting….
6/11/09 update Buffer zone at Jay Place (Pepsi)
The original meetings and drawings showed Pepsi being responsible for
the maintenance of a 30 ft buffer zone from their building to the sidewalk areas of the “paper street” of Jay
Place and the sidewalk/street of Senger. They do have the Senger area 30 ft fenced in and plan to maintain it but the rest
of the building fence varies from 14 to 19 ft. This leaves a large area that will have to have the large piles of wood removed
and just let the weeds grow behind a high fence.
Sanitation did come and remove the cars (thank you) and much debris,
but left some behind!!
Jay
Place
6/11/09 Jay Place Update :
SIGN WRONG
We have called 311 to change sign from Jay Ave.
to Jay Place to help Ambulances arrive faster.
C1-1485962890 6/9/09
Can we make angle Parking on the Jay Place area that has the
two Homes with Brush Ave. Addresses?
680
and 682 Brush?
19 ft to fence from building???
What happened to maintained 30ft buffer zone?
6/11/09
update 2469 Senger problems in street to follow:
Man hole fills with dirt there is flooding neighbor has to run out and clean it all the time
It is too low.
This
pot hole is quite deep and dangerous on a blind
turn off the Hutch Serv. Road 2469 Senger This cable worries the neighbors and it is also ugly
6/11/09 update FLOODING 311
Complaint Numbers
650 Brush Ave. Flooded bad again….2-3ft deep 60 by
30 ft wide
cars stalled….trucks
had to use the road under the Bx Whitestone Bridge which is in bad repair.
311 has recorded:
May 7th # 184835568 ours plus another 3 not available?
June 1st #? Not available
June 9th # 184-857-286 ours plus another?
There has been DEP trucks that pump out the water from the manhole
but never clean the drains.
Also
because the water is rising due to Pepsi now filling up the natural green area that used to absorb the runoff, the dirt area
where there is no sidewalk is constantly eroding into these important drains.
Pepsi’s new catch basins that we asked for during the construction are now to high (to legal
grade) to absorb the water from Brush Ave. up to a 18 inch level which seems to be low grade by almost 2 ft at this point.
Pepsi’s catch basins are not functioning
yet and will not eliminate the entire huge puddle but will definitely keep it lower by about 1 foot.
311 says it is an open complaint…..
6/11/09 Update Utilities Replacement lamp
post:
It seems a replacement lamp post and light would have to be in written form to Bronx Borough Com.
Office of DOT
1400 Williamsbridge
Road
2nd Floor
Bronx, NY 10461
Can you send a letter ?
Corner of Brush Avenue and Lafayette Avenue
South Side of Lafayette where traffic runs west
to east.
*(noted Hellmans Electric
truck there on 6/12/09 12:00 But we are not sure because they have their office near the missing lamp and post))
6/11/09 Update Street Holes
Hole has formed where water deteriorated under the asphalt
repair from the Con Ed installation of the Gas pipe to Pepsi. Fire Dept was called
March 25th? Because neighbor at 694 had water in basement. This is an emergency
as far as I can tell. This large new gas line is next to an electrical line and there is water everywhere. This hole is across
from HOPenn a Heavy equipment repair company. If a truck does sink in and damage the
line “Boom”
Complaint
# DEP 184-858-751
DEP truck came 6pm 6/11/08 did not put cone…. He spray painted date
on asphalt
A neighbor put a large
upside down cone in hole
6/13/09
someone removed smaller cone and put larger warning cone over hole
708-710 Brush Ave. Hole is like a cavern underneath……..emergency could cave in
Additional info.: 6/18/2009
Update Noise Pepsi:
Ferry
Point Community Advocates Survey:
We
want to add to our survey the complaint that we registered with John Doyle on June 2
during the Pepsi survey.
The constant loud humming noise 24 hours and the intermittent rattling motor noise that sounds like
a motorcycle/sump pump.
Victor Oscasio of the Ferry Point Community Advocates met with Chen Lu and others on June 16th
where he walked with them to identify the noise that is haunting our Neighborhood.
Victor discussed the noise abatement needed
in the future. Victor was assured that the noise that is heard throughout the neighborhood would be addressed soon.
So Far we have reports from most residents of Senger Place and Brush Ave. from Jay Place to Rohr Place
that this noise is interrupting their lives. We look forward to the day we can relax in our gardens again and sleep through
the night.
6/18/09
Update FLOODING:
Flooding 3 feet deep blocked traffic on Brush Ave.
News 12 shows tow truck dragging cars out of 3 foot water.
A river type area near 650 Brush where Pepsi has installed catch basins but
has not connected them yet.
Water
is highest across the street from Pepsi due to street grade being below grade with 2 clogged drains.
This is a shame. Hundreds of UPS , Optimum and Pepsi vehicles
have to take the only street out left which is a horrible poorly maintained NYC Park/MTA/TBTA street that swings under the
Bronx/Whitestone Bridge.
This Loop
Road has no name and is not on the 911 or 311 Computer for accidents/crime etc.
Link to News 12 report on huge flood.
http://www.news12.com/index.jsp
More on page 24 and 14 of this report
Traffic
Piles up throughout day and night
Many cars towed from water
3 car accident in May
We have also reported burnt car on Yznaga
There
have been 2 stabbings
2 vehicles burnt
And constant dumping
In the parking lot of Ferry Point Park since
June 1st when Parks and Com.bd.10 requested the ring road be open.
2 large fires in the park as well.
RING ROAD OPENED AT NIGHT INCREASED CRIME/SHOULD BE RECLOSED AT NIGHT
We are working to have
this street closed again.
Dumped garbage pail with something dead in it 711 Brush Ave. 311 took care of
it
Removed
Bicycle
lane markings need replacement from Wenner to Schley
Home Depot Million Trees Grant looking into