"...FRONT STOOPS SEPARATED FROM BUILDINGS AND FACADES STARTED TO BUCKLE"

This article describes the breaking of and subsequent damage caused by an 8 in. water main under historic St. Felix Street in Brooklyn, New York, in the winter of 1997. Street conditions became hazardous and adjacent residences were put in danger as front stoops separated from buildings and facades buckled. Data collected indicated that the street had sunk by as much as 2 feet in some places indicating the displacement of a huge amount of soil. Further investigation revealed that timber trestles and the surrounding soil from earlier underground subway construction some 80 years earlier had settled further and been somewhat washed away by the water main break. The New York City Depts. of Transportation and Environmental Protection recommended that subway ducts under the affected area be relocated and that the deep combined sewer in the street be reconstructed as part of emergency repairs. Ultimately, the structural problems underground were repaired and the street's facades and stoops were restored based on archival photographs and records.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  200 South Broad Street
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Authors:
  • Darr, R
• Publication Date: 2000-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 48-50
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 131
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deterioration by environmental action; Historic preservation; Rehabilitation; Repairing; Underground construction; Underground structures; Water mains
• Identifier Terms: New York City Department of Environmental Protection; New York City Department of Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Restoration
• Geographic Terms: Brooklyn (New York, New York); New York (New York); United States
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; History; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00784154
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 3 2000 12:00AM