A pothole large enough to stand in is causing issues on East 161st street. And there are dozens more scattered along the corridor.<\/p>\n
The city is planning a “Pothole Blitz” this week to fill in the craters across the five boroughs. Meanwhile, residents are urging that the holes be filled along the East 161st Street corridor.<\/p>\n
Chris Corbett says his friend rode his scooter into a pothole.<\/p>\n
“He hit that pothole and he went up in the air and came down and broke his leg in three places,” Corbett said. “It’s crazy.”<\/p>\n
Gloria Anderson has lived in this neighborhood for 30 years. She describes what it’s like as she crosses 161st Street with her walker.<\/p>\n
“My back, my body, everything hurts me, I’m just in pain right now cause these potholes,” Anderson says.<\/p>\n
Resident Bruce Phillips says he is taking matters into his own hands.<\/p>\n
“They are treacherous, I had to call 311,” he says.<\/p>\n
Drivers also say they are worried about what damage this could do. One driver tells News 12 he’s worried the potholes could damage.<\/p>\n
“The whole front end, the shocks, the struts, everything,” that resident says.<\/p>\n
The city’s Department of Transportation is urging New Yorkers to report potholes to 311 or by visiting nyc.gov\/fixmypothole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pothole large enough to stand in is causing issues on East 161st street. And there are dozens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,61074,67982,69747,69746,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-177794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pothole","tag-pothole-blitz","tag-pothole-damage","tag-pothole-repairs","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}