Lower East Side residents fume over yearslong delay of MTA project
A troubled MTA project has turned a once bustling street next to a Lower East Side park into a noisy construction site that’s become a haven for drug use for more than five years — and neighbors say there’s no end in sight.
“Several of us were attacked by people with obvious mental health problems who decided that was where they were living and how dare you go past them,” Huxley said, who has lived on the block for 40 years. “That was not OK.” Wyskida said the duct tape noting the 2023 completion date on the construction signage appeared after a community meeting last May where neighbors brought up the delays.
Meanwhile, MTA contract documents published two months before show the agency had already extended the construction contract from Nov. 29, 2023 to March 19, 2024. The extension cited an unexpected obstruction of steel beams that needed to be modified.
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