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This Year our Survey of needs will be quite different.

Instead of the phone survey or the meeting....We will be going door to door to make sure we get a response fromn everyone (Possible).

This will take some time but we feel it is worth it.

  • What is the opinion of more than 15 people out of the 75 families in Ferry Point?
  • What is the opinion of the Business owners and the employees?

WELL this year we will attempt to find out.

  • An Email blast to the Businesses will help
  • (Survey) as to the representation of the Neighborhood at various meeting etc. on specific items.
  • A door to door registration of concerns and complaints will be on file at 724 and added to our Survey.
  • All past and future surveys will be on view at the Monthly Meetings, Viewings and discussions.

 

2010 Draft Survey of needs submitted March 29th

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 3/10/2010
Gavel BangingDear Elected Officials and Friends of Ferry Point Community in general:
"A special shout out to CB10, the office of Senator Klein, and the Bronx Borough Pres. Office
for helping us with our 2009 Survey of needs".
It was a great success.
This mixed use area of your district is in need of Daily care.If you have not worked along with us in the past….we hope you can educate yourself about the various groups involved in Ferry Points care and help us help this neighborhood in the district you have been elected to represent.  Thank You and always available for contact…Dorothea Poggi     917-741-2768 mail@ferrypointbronx.org
The community of Ferry Point would be thankful for any help you can give us to remediate the problems stated in the following pages for our draft survey for 2010. As you probably are aware, our Park, Residential, Educational and Combined Industrial groups are succeeding in correcting and enhancing various problems in our area each year.
Our general website www.ferrypointbronx.org can give you the details.

Sold Sign, Swinging  Ferry Point Community Advocates:
1. Grading and paving of entire Brush Avenue from Wenner Place to Schley Avenue.
2. Grading and paving of entire “Ring Road” under Bx/Whitestone Bridge (through Park) used as u turn from Hutch. Serv. Rd. South to H.Sv. Rd North. Multiple requests to name it and place it on 911/311 call communication.
3. Protective Black Iron Fence along Ring Road through West side of Park like PB Park has along Ampere? Ave..
4. Entrance adjacent to Pepsi Parking Lot directly onto the Hutch. Rv. Pkwy Toll Area. (for use by all traffic)
5. All missing Street Trees Replaced along Brush Avenue
6. Flowering garden at the two ends of Lafayette Ave.
7. Flowering garden at the area of the de-mapped Randall Ave. along Brush Ave.
8. Funding to properly identify the actual owner and the uses allowed for the mapped Jay Place and the removal of the standing dead trees now there.
9. Sanitation cleanup and landscaped area needed along Jay Place between 680 Brush Ave. and Pepsi’s fence.
10. Follow through on Graffiti enforcement
11. Street cleaners to clean up dirt from parking lot areas on Brush Ave. Daily.
12. Bus company should not be at 999 Brush Avenue dangerous intersection blocked by large buses.  Traffic back up for 15—20 minutes. 

Phone Console  Brush Avenue Action Council:“Industrial/Educational/Recreational and Residential stakeholders working together”
1. Sink Hole needs fixing on Brush Ave. near entrance to Home Depot.
2. Catch Basin Drainage needed along entire West side of Brush Avenue.
3. Street cleaners need to clean up mud and dirt daily.
4. Sanitation Baskets needed at bus stops & along West Side of Brush Avenue especially near UPS and Ambulette Co.
5. Sidewalk needed near HOPenn/ (demapped Randall Ave.on Brush Ave. across from Pepsi. The erosion is already entering cleaned out drains.
6. Request for mail box returned at corner of Brush and Rohr Place
7. Request for promised larger parcel green box corner of Rohr and Brush8. Multiple requests by Industry to fix “Ring Road”, name it and place it on 911/311 call communication.
9. Follow Through to toughen Graffiti Enforcement
10.  Reach out to surrounding Community Boards to reduce their encroaching Graffiti as well.
11.  Help make the punishment fit the crime regardless of age of vandal. Community Service Graffiti Squad to clean up Graffiti or to should be part of their first offense.
12. Sewer connection on Yznaga Pl. for Industry 

 Daisy, Rotating Requests from Friends of Ferry Point Park:West Side:
1. Address the huge Flooding from the East side and construction that has entered the park and will kill hundreds of trees this year.
2. Parking Lot on East side needs complete renovation
3. Fence needed to keep ATV’s off the new 2 mil.dollar field4. Extensions of at least one of the new paths to the Hilltop 9/11 Memorial Grove5. A snack bar concession on the East side of the Park6. Make sure that the comfort station is still paid for
7. Make sure the water line is fixed to the park.
8. Dog Run on the West and East Side of the Park
9. Kayak/Canoe launch West and East Side of Park
10. More funding for security Sundays (Parks Enforcement Patrol) 9- 4:pm
11. Police presence every Sunday between 4-9pm around parking lot where stabbings occur
12. Some funding for 4 wheelbarrows for Friends Volunteers.
13. Funding for Tulip bulbs for the Volunteers.
14. Funding for Hot Dogs, Kites, Etc. for events
15. Funding for Brochures, maps, posters etc. 
East Side: Golf Course,
Waterfront Promenade and Community Park.
1. Exercise stations should be added to the future East Side waterfront park
2. Add a Dog Run Near Emerson Ave. and signage notifying dog walkers of a fine for not cleaning up after their dogs in the dog run and throughout the promenade.
3. Add More variety of sports fields where the proposed “Banquet Hall was planned?”
4. Funding to abate water in proposed golf course lake? Who’s paying for the NYC water supplying the pond and irrigation? Is it going to contain the run off that is now suddenly flooding the West side? Will it contain the toxic fertilizers and grub insecticides from the golf course maintenance?
5.  Where will the promenade walkers park?
6.  Pocket parking was proposed along promenade
7. Fix up the West side lot for parking.
8. Monitor Methane trench in playground area along Balcolm Ave.. 

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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 repairexcept 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
PepsiFlood
 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

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