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From the latest Construction Update: night shift work at railyard Monday-Friday for four weeks

The latest Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Construction Update (bottom), covering the two weeks beginning Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, was circulated at 11:41 am Friday (lead time) by Empire State Development (ESD) after preparation by Greenland Forest City Partners.

There are few changes from the previous update, given that vertical construction is not expected to start until spring, and the ongoing work is infrastructure or demolition.

But there will be some more evening work, presumably at the east end of the Vanderbilt Yard:
East Portal SOE [support of excavation] and general excavation activities to Yard Grade elevation will include a night shift between the hours of 3:30 pm and 12:00 am, Monday through Friday during this reporting period. Necessary light/dust/noise mitigation measures will be utilized. This night activity can be expected to continue for the next 4 weeks.
Also, there will now be mechanical demolition at 728 Atlantic Avenue, one of the two buildings that "bump" south into the railyard. Most of the work, we were told last October, would be hand demolition, to ensure safeguards over the active railroad tracks.

So they're apparently at a stage--closer to ground level?--where they can use equipment. That said, the apparent brick in the railyard last week might be addressed at Tuesday's Quality of Life meeting.

Also, pile drilling for the Vanderbilt Avenue retaining wall will continue on Saturdays.

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