Work has been underway since last fall

The city Parks & Recreation Department is making progress on its East River Slips projects. At Montgomery Slip, crews are have been working since last fall to install new utilities, rebuild the median and sidewalks, and re-landscape the area. Similarly, infrastructure and utility work is active along Rutgers Slip.  Both are slated for completion by the end of spring 2011.

Meanwhile, crews are expected to mobilize very soon at Catherine Slip. Work there includes more than doubling the pedestrian area, and connecting it to Tanahey Park to the north. New landscaping and a lawn, pavement, and street “furniture” will improve Catherine Slip by approximately early 2012.

Nearby at the southeastern edge of Chinatown, Parks Department crews also are proceeding with reconstruction of the Pike-Allen Street pedestrian malls.  Currently, phase 1 work between South and Madison Streets in on track for late-June completion. Phase 2 work will continue the mall rebuilding and bikeway improvements to the blocks between Grand and Delancey Streets, starting approximately early summer 2011 through early 2012.

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