{"id":260598,"date":"2026-06-09T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/260598\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:55:05","slug":"im-a-prisoner-in-my-own-home-overnight-port-authority-work-keeps-hells-kitchen-residents-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/260598\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m a Prisoner in My Own Home\u201d \u2014 Overnight Port Authority Work Keeps Hell\u2019s Kitchen Residents Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past six months, Thomas Plocharczyk and Anthony Penniston have been living with construction noise that often stretches through the night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PABT-Construction-MC_1065.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146121\"\/>Construction work for the new Port Authority Bus Terminal at night. Photo: Melinda Caudill<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plocharczyk, who lives on the 33rd floor of 555TEN at 10th Avenue and W40th Street, faces the roads and ramps leading in and out of the Lincoln Tunnel, where construction is underway as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/day-one-of-a-decade-port-authority-bus-terminal-overhaul-begins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Authority\u2019s decade-long effort to replace the aging Midtown Bus Terminal<\/a>. Current work includes building a platform over Dyer Avenue that will serve as a staging area for the next phase of construction.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past six months, Thomas Plocharczyk and Anthony Penniston have been living with construction noise that often&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,38400],"class_list":["post-260598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-portauthority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260598","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=260598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}