A flooded stretch of sidewalk at the corner of Bronx Park East and Lydig Avenue is forcing pedestrians to find alternate routes, with neighbors and students saying the standing water has become a recurring safety concern.<\/p>\n
Large puddles covered portions of the sidewalk, with some parked cars partially surrounded by standing water.<\/p>\n
While some pedestrians carefully navigated through the area, others turned around after realizing they could not make it across.<\/p>\n
Resident Gino Peluso said he was concerned after hearing that a man rode his e-bike through the flooded sidewalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cThought that was a thoughtless maneuver,\u201d Peluso said. \u201cIf there was a hole there, he could have done a flip-flop and done an acrobatic move with his bike. Turning over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peluso said anyone walking through the area should come prepared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey better come out with their rubber boots… or something, \u2018cause they\u2019re definitely going to get their socks wet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Elijah Diaz and Gerard Caraballo were walking to a nearby park to play basketball when they encountered the flooded sidewalk. After attempting to make their way through, they decided to turn back.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we tried, but we couldn\u2019t,\u201d Diaz said.<\/p>\n
Diaz pointed to the large puddle blocking their path.<\/p>\n
Caraballo said the flooding is a familiar sight.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I see this like once a week. It\u2019s kind of bad, especially with the rain sometimes… it can get really flooded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said the standing water could become an even bigger issue once the school year begins.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can make me late for school. I could get detention,\u201d Caraballo said.<\/p>\n
Caraballo also expressed concern that pedestrians may be forced into the street to avoid the flooded sidewalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the sidewalk, the whole point is walking… so if I can\u2019t walk, it\u2019s worse if I start walking on the street,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Caraballo hopes city agencies address the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cFix the sidewalks, fix the roads, get rid of the puddles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection for comment but did not hear back before airtime.<\/p>\n
Residents also said the standing water can be especially difficult to see after dark, urging anyone walking through the area at night to watch their step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flooded stretch of sidewalk at the corner of Bronx Park East and Lydig Avenue is forcing pedestrians…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-290524","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\/290524","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=290524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}