“We are opening the ramp and the Esplanade from 70th to 71st street on Monday, June 15,” Jack Wong, a project manager for HSS’s Esplanade renovations, said at a Thursday meeting with Upper East Side’s Community Board 8. “We anticipate opening 71st Street north to 72nd Street fairly soon, approximately mid to end of July.”
Once structural seawall repairs and sinkhole remediations are made and safety barriers are installed, the Esplanade between East 72nd Street and East 78th Street can be painted, paved, landscaped, and reopened, Wong said.