Your street is a mess and City Hall knows it
So look—we all know the streets out here are a mess, right? You tryin' to get down Roosevelt Avenue, past the vendors, and you almost lose a tire in a pothole. Well, City Hall's officially hearin' it. According to the latest 311 data, "Street Condition / Pothole" is number one on the hit parade for complaints, with a whopping 4,768 requests. Deadass, that's more than anything else folks are callin' in about. Heat and hot water, noise complaints—they're high too, but nah, potholes take the cake.
### What's City Hall Hearin'?
Here's the thing: everyone's talkin' about it, and the numbers don't lie. That's almost 1,000 more complaints than the next highest issue, which is "HEAT/HOT WATER / ENTIRE BUILDING" at 3,733 requests. So while you're tryin' to get a good night's sleep without your neighbor's loud music (2,434 complaints, by the way), the city's mostly worried about its cracked-up asphalt.
* Street Condition / Pothole: 4,768 requests * HEAT/HOT WATER / ENTIRE BUILDING: 3,733 requests * Illegal Parking / Blocked Hydrant: 3,086 requests
It tells you somethin' about where the city's infrastructure is at. What's next? We gotta see if the city actually *does* somethin' about it, or if those potholes just get bigger. That's New York—if you can't keep up, take the bus.
Rachel Kwon-Gutierrez, MiTL Sports Desk.
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