Eastbound Atlantic Avenue, east of Sixth Avenue, is now cleared of water main work. Does that mean fence for platform finally will go up?

Well, the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) was right about finishing water main work.

"We are aiming to complete our work on the south side of Atlantic [Avenue] by Monday," the DDC said last week, after residents complained about constricted eastbound lanes, just east of Sixth Avenue/South Portland Avenue.

As shown in the photo at right, which I took yesterday, the equipment was gone, and traffic flowed smoothly. 

That means--as far as I can tell--that there's no barrier, beyond an expected permit from the Long Island Rail Road, for the developers of Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park to move forward with long-promised work on a platform over the first block (of two) of the MTA's Vanderbilt Yard.

"We were required to hold off on erecting the construction fence on Atlantic Avenue until DDC was able to complete their work, which we're hopeful will be happening in the next few weeks," Scott Solish of Greenland USA said at a meeting 9/20/22. That work, however, took little more than a week.

So let's see if anything changes.

(Greenland USA owns nearly all of Greenland Forest City Partners, the project's master developer.)

Work on the medians

As shown in the photos below, restoration work continues on the Atlantic Avenue median just west of Sixth Avenue/South Portland Avenue. 

"That work should happen over the next several weeks," Solish said at the meeting.