April 28, 2007

Work on the site, not including the work of the surveyors, started on Tuesday, April 24th.

A row of "Jersey barriers" was placed on the East side of 2nd Avenue on the west side of what was the parking lane. Workers immediately started to clear any and all obstructions on the sidewalk - e.g. signage, trees, and parking meters. The USPS also came and removed their pick-up boxes in the construction zone.



92nd Street, SE corner - looking south



92nd Street, NW corner - looking south



92nd Street, SE corner - looking north



94th Street, SE corner - looking north

April 21, 2007

The first indication, a notice on a parking meter, that actual construction is about to begin.



Spray painted marking on the sidewalk to mark the future location of access ways for the NYC Fire Department.



No Parking signs waiting for the first day of construction.

April 14, 2007 - The First Posting

This first group of images is what I call the "reference set." The purpose here is to document the environment in and around the construction area before the ground was broken. I tried to shoot the images in a way that would make it easy to later compare how things looked before, and after.



93rd Street, SE corner - looking north



94th Street, SE corner - looking north



95th Street, SE corner - looking north



btw. 95th & 96th, east side of the street - looking west



96th Street, SE corner - looking north



97th Street, SE corner - looking north



97th Street, SE corner - looking west
(an ancillary structure for the 96th Street station will be located where the Century Lumber building stands today.)



97th Street, South crosswalk - looking south



96th Street, NW corner - looking south



95th Street, NW corner - looking south



92nd Street, South crosswalk - looking north



spray painted locations of the utilities and a shadow of the photographer.