The photographer Robert Ripps sent a note: “I saw them putting in a detour for the bike path that runs along West Street north of Chambers, which will be between the bike dock and Stuyvesant. They said it would probably last for maybe two months, so they can drill and do samples in preparation for building the resiliency wall.”

(And as always his photos are so good, this is a photo essay too. In fact that one above is framing quality.)

I got in touch with Nick Sbordone at the Battery Park City Authority, and the folks on the ground were right — except for the duration. “The bike lane re-routing between the North Esplanade and Chambers street is just temporary for the next few weeks to necessitate preliminary, subsurface site investigation work in advance of NWBPCR,” which is the North/West Battery Park City Resiliency Project. “Bike line to be restored to its usual location later this month” — in fact through the week of Nov. 18.

If you can dig through the BPCA website, they almost always have these notices in their news or blog sections. Of course I am lazy and ask Nick, and he is too nice to me and sends the link without a single word of a lecture. So read more about it here.

You can read more on the project, which encompasses Rockefeller Park, the north side of BPC and some streets of Tribeca, from the BPCA here and from the TC here.

And more soon on the discussions on that corner at Stuy high school where Hudson River Park ends and Battery Park City begins…