The city planted a tree and now the roots are causing the sidewalk to lift, creating a dangerous problem.
NEW YORK -- When we think of street safety, cars and traffic come to mind. But what happens when the hazard is the sidewalk?A viewer wrote to CBS New York with this very problem, so we investigated the story in Richmond Hill , Queens .Carol and Jack Wolf, both cancer survivors, have lived in the same house for 50 years. There's nowhere they'd rather be.'We have people from all over the world here,' Jack Wolf said. 'You couldn't ask for better neighbors.
'Again and again the couple has appealed to the city, which pledged to help and added them to a waitlist.They've now been waiting more than a decade.'So much for promises,' Jack Wolf said.'I think it's outrageous,' public affairs counsel Corey Bearak said.He argues that though sidewalks damaged by roots of city trees are now the responsibility of the Parks Department, it simply doesn't have the bandwidth to clear the long waitlist.
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