The pathway on Independence Avenue and W. 261st Street has been deemed unsafe by multiple residents who live in the area.<\/p>\n
“It’s absolutely not anything accessible. I’m 71 and I wear hiking shoes to come down here,” says Vicky Berger.<\/p>\n
Berger lives in the area and says the community around Independence Avenue and W. 261st Street has tried to get officials to address this walkway for years.<\/p>\n
Instead, she says, they aren\u2019t getting any results.<\/p>\n
“It’s been in very bad shape since 1996. There have been various attempts and promises and research to figure out who was responsible,” she says. <\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to sources close to the Department of Transportation, who sent the following statement: \u201cNYC DOT is exploring options for a long-term repair. We are reviewing what a full reconstruction might look like here and how much it would cost.\u201d<\/p>\n
Berger says that answer isn’t good enough.<\/p>\n
“It’s nonsense, because everything costs money, and there are other streets in Riverdale that have been significantly re-engineered and replaced. And there’s really no reason why this one should be on the bottom of the list,” she says.<\/p>\n
Berger says that she and her neighbors won’t stop demanding answers from city agencies until they see results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pathway on Independence Avenue and W. 261st Street has been deemed unsafe by multiple residents who live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-225579","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-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225579","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=225579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}