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In the News: Traffic and ambulance response times
TRAFFIC x AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIMES
The Times has a lengthy analysis of the effects of traffic with ambulance response times, and when extrapolated, the connection between the failure of congestion pricing and death. From the Times: “The release of the annual Mayor’s Management Report last month pointed to two convergent and unsettling trends. The document…indicated both a 5 percent increase in life-threatening emergency calls between the fiscal years 2023 and 2024 and a slower response time in handling them. During that same period, dispatch and travel times for both ambulances and Fire Department vehicles during dire medical emergencies increased by 20 seconds, for an average response time of 7 minutes 23 seconds. Every minute someone having a heart attack goes without CPR reduces the chance of survival by 10 percent.”
250 WATER CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD
The construction of the full block at 250 Water at the Seaport is chugging along, and the purchase of the air rights from the city is the latest news. From Crain’s: “Developer Howard Hughes Holdings on Aug. 1 purchased $40 million worth of air rights from the city for the project long planned at 250 Water St., property records show.”
RENDERINGS OF 55 BROAD CONVERSION
Yimby has renderings of 55 Broad, a recent conversion of the former Goldman Sachs building now owned by Silverstein Properties and Metro Loft. From Yimby: “Designed by CetraRuddy, the project will yield 571 rental apartments in studio to three-bedroom layouts along with a collection of indoor and outdoor amenities. Silverstein purchased the building for $180 million in June 2022.”
ART DEALER PLEADS GUILTY
BNN Bloomberg reports that art dealer Lisa Schiff, who ran outposts of Schiff Fine Art in Tribeca and London, “pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud on Thursday as part of a plea agreement, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said in a statement. She is set to be sentenced in January by US District Judge Paul Oetken. The criminal case comes after clients began suing Schiff last year.”
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I’m generally a YIMBY because we need housing, this is a living city, and often the NIMBY arguments are too parochial for my tastes.
That said, I don’t like the 250 Water situation one bit. And Howard Hughes is not a company that I particularly trust. Remember that park we were supposed to get on Pier 17?
The heavy traffic in our neighborhood is largely due to congestion from the Holland Tunnel, and the city’s failure to address key bottlenecks borders on negligence. Traffic mitigation efforts are halted precisely at 7 p.m. on weekdays, regardless of ongoing traffic conditions, and no efforts are made at all on weekends, despite consistently high traffic volumes. The lack of management at the Hudson and Canal intersection, in particular, leads to blocked local lanes down Hudson and across key streets like Laight and Hubert, often delaying emergency vehicles at a crucial road crossing. Local traffic flows when mitigation efforts are in place so its so disappointing to see the city leave the area unattended after 7pm or on weekends and see local lanes go from open to all of a sudden get blocked because the city lacks dynamic traffic management.
It’s high time for the city to actually begin enforcing traffic laws. One way to improve traffic movement times: stop drivers from blocking the intersection boxes.
Howard Hughes Holding transferred ownership of the “Seaport District” to a newly created subsidiary called Seaport Entertainment Group on or about August 1st. This was just a paperwork transaction linking the Seaport with HHH property in Las Vegas of all places, we have no idea if anything is “chugging along “.
Thank you for the update – we live across the street – and have been dreading for construction to start. The proposed building will overshadow all of the Seaport. I hope it never happens.