The city’s transportation commissioner headed to Brooklyn for some work in the streets to mark an Adams administration milestone.
The city’s transportation commissioner headed to Brooklyn for some work in the streets to mark an Adams administration milestone.
The city’s transportation commissioner headed to Brooklyn for some work in the streets to mark an Adams administration milestone.
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at a milestone in the fight against one of the scourges of winter. We’ll also get details on former Senator Robert Menendez’s 11-year prison sentence.
No. 500,000 was the big one. No. 500,001 and No. 500,002 were smaller, and No. 500,003 was smaller still.
They are potholes in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Or they were, until they were filled in by someone who usually has other things to do — the transportation commissioner, Ydanis Rodriguez.
He said the numbering referred to how many potholes had been filled since Mayor Eric Adams took office three years ago.
It’s a theoretical milestone. The count was based on weekly estimates, and the actual 500,000th pothole was probably found and filled a few weeks ago. But time was needed to plan a ceremony, which included speeches from behind a lectern that was shoved aside when the commissioner picked up a shovel and went to work. Like a dentist facing a deepish cavity, he shoveled in just enough asphalt to pack No. 500,000 until it was level with the pavement around it.