NYC's Newest Subway Station Is Leaking

[marmar]

[font size="1"]NY Post[/font]

(WNYC) The 34th Street-Hudson Yards station opened to great fanfare last September. The first new subway station in over 25 years, it's meant to do great things — namely, anchor the city's redevelopment of the far West Side.

So it's a bit of the buzzkill for the agency to have the crown jewel of the system be described in the press as a mess. Specifically, "a crumbling hot mess," "a disgusting, moldy mess," or a just plain "watery mess."

MTA Capital Construction president Dr. Michael Horodniceanu put it more pragmatically at the agency's recent board meeting:

"The fact that we have leaks is evidence that the waterproofing system is not performing as intended," he said Monday, adding that the agency knew about leaks as long ago as the summer of 2012 and directed its subcontracter, Yonkers Contracting Company, to remediate them.

He added that the material Yonkers had used to waterproof the station was different than the one the MTA had specified, "but it was believed to be equal." ......................(more)

http://www.wnyc.org/story/mta-says-subcontractor-must-pay-leak-fixes-hudson-yards/

[itsrobert]

1. Time to call Mike Holmes to make it right

However, I don't know if that project would be in the show's budget.