Those new bus shelters that the city has invested in are currently making their way up to West Harlem. Walking on Broadway this week (at the border of Manhattanville), we noticed large square plots of missing sidewalk and couldn't figure out what they were there for. Then the construction crew brought in the new, modern bus shelters in yesterday and we realized that the old nabe is getting a bit of an update. These new shelters are a little bit more interesting (and functional) since they have that extended, slanted awning on top and are much nicer than the previous clinical-looking ones. The large, empty restaurant space on this block is currently getting renovated so this slightly shabby street corner might be turning around soon. Read about it in our past post: LINK. Photo by Ulysses
Friday, May 14, 2010
☞ INTRODUCING: West Harlem New Bus Shelters
Those new bus shelters that the city has invested in are currently making their way up to West Harlem. Walking on Broadway this week (at the border of Manhattanville), we noticed large square plots of missing sidewalk and couldn't figure out what they were there for. Then the construction crew brought in the new, modern bus shelters in yesterday and we realized that the old nabe is getting a bit of an update. These new shelters are a little bit more interesting (and functional) since they have that extended, slanted awning on top and are much nicer than the previous clinical-looking ones. The large, empty restaurant space on this block is currently getting renovated so this slightly shabby street corner might be turning around soon. Read about it in our past post: LINK. Photo by Ulysses
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I give it less than six months before some idiot breaks the big pane of glass over the advertisement side. It seems to have happened at all the other ones in the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThe other day I saw an electric wheelchair driver accidentally backing up into the side pane of one of the shelters on the upper west side. The pane broke and glass (plastic?!) shattered all over him. It was scary and left me wondering how resistant these shelters are. If that is all that it takes they will be destroyed purposefully or accidentally in no time. I do like the look of them...hopefully the sides can be replaced with more robust materials?!
ReplyDeleteIt's unfortunate that they always find a way to break them; whether it's intentional or accidental. In most parts of the civilized world that just isn't the case.
ReplyDeleteI noticed broken lightbulbs this morning at the as-yet-unfinished shelter on Broadway between Tiemann and LaSalle--it looked to me light someone smashed them. :-(
ReplyDelete5:05 here: "Like" someone smashed them, not "light." Freudian slip!
ReplyDeleteThe city doesn't spend money on the shelters, it makes money on them. Cemusa pays the city to put up and maintain the bus shelters and the new newspaper stands. In return they get to keep the advertising revenue generated by the shelters. From what I've seen they are very responsive to fixing broken shelters. There is no reason to think that the new shelters will be damaged, intentionally or unintentionally, at a rate any different than the old shelters.
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