Construction Work Comes to 4th Avenue Lot

A reader noticed that construction machinery turned up at the empty lot on the corner of 4th Avenue and Sackett Street, as well as some tarps to block viewers from 4th Avenue, which could mean one of two things. On the one hand, Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman told us earlier this year that a community garden would occupy half the lot this spring. On the other hand, this site covers an underground water shaft tunnel (and therefore cannot be built on) and the Department of Environmental Protection has another 5 years of work on the site. The DEP has had full access to the space for more than a decade but promised to give it to the community once work wrapped. The last word was that half the site would be given to the community for an “interim community garden” this spring, until DEP finished all work. So this could be the promise of a community garden, or just routine work by the DEP. That’s some pretty heavy machinery so it feels like it may be the latter. Anyone heard rumblings?
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