The shadow in the bottom photo prevents you from seeing how damaged the street in the dark shadows but is very damaged. This is 2nd Avenue and 7th Street.
5/23/07 on was on NY1 with a diverse group of community members. Most of the stores by the water main break are all gone. A coincidence? The street conditions how ever a still a terrible mess and why is that? Are the problems below the surface that DEP and DOT collectively cannot address.
Look at the intersection a couple of blocks down by the 9th Precinct at 5th street and 1st Ave. Also a mess on both sides of the street. Dangerous and why do the streets under Bloomberg resemble a 3rd world country?
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2010/06/ny1-showed-water-main-break-3-years-ago.html
Suzannah B. Troy Streets of NY Series on Mike Bloomberg and his administration’s lousy street conditions city wide....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxWcwAeN3wc