{"id":54035,"date":"2026-05-02T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/54035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:43:09","slug":"monster-nyc-pothole-wreaking-havoc-on-nabe-even-after-city-fixes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/54035\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster NYC pothole wreaking havoc on nabe even after city ‘fixes’ it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city finally filled a massive car-eating crater in Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s old Long Island City district in Queens<\/a> \u2014 but it\u2019s expanding faster than NYC\u2019s budget deficit<\/a>, and even causing accidents.<\/p>\n

The monster pothole emerged as a mere depression nearly a month ago, smack in the middle of a two-lane, one-way, westbound strip along 41st Avenue between 23rd and 24th streets.<\/p>\n

But it grew to be a hazardous hole<\/a> \u2014 roughly 6-feet-long, 5-feet-wide and nearly 30 inches deep \u2014 when The Post measured it on April 22.<\/p>\n

City crews filled the hellhole two days later, but neighborhood residents<\/a> said the asphalt patchwork started sinking within hours.<\/p>\n

New York Post reporter Rich Calder stands inside a massive pothole on 41st Avenue in Long Island City, Queens, on April 22 that has local residents peeved. Even after city workers patched it up, it is still sinking. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

A pick-up truck cruising down the dimly-lit strip early Monday swerved to avoid being gobbled up by the crater, and slammed into a parked car, damaging both vehicles, eyewitnesses said. <\/p>\n

The truck\u2019s driver, who identified himself as \u201cHassan,\u201d told The Post through a translator his vehicle had to be towed due to extensive damage and demanded the city pick up the tab.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city collects so much money [from taxpayers], but nothing ever gets fixed<\/a> right,\u201d said Hassan, adding he left a note for the owner of the car he hit but has yet to hear back.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is the same s\u2013t every day. More and more accidents. The city has to pay for this accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chasm erupted in front of the 17-story \u201cQ41\u201d condo complex, located in the former industrial neighborhood-turned-residential hotspot.<\/p>\n

City Department of Transportation crews twice responded to photograph it and temporarily patch it, residents said.<\/p>\n

City workers responding to 311 complaints filled the huge crater on April 24, but neighborhood residents said the asphalt patchwork started sinking within hours \u2014 leaving gaps seen above extending more than six inches deep as of Friday. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

The pothole measured 6-feet, 1-inch long and 4-feet, 9-inches wide on April 22. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

A measuring tape shows that some parts of the pothole on April 22 dropped 30 inches deep. Most of the crater, however, was about 18 inches deep. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

Mohammad Hasan, Q41\u2019s doorman, took matters into his own hands. He first put traffic cones and yellow hazard tape around the hole, then stuck a large shovel in the pit so drivers would see it. After someone ran over the shovel, the doorman sprayed the pothole and the street around it fluorescent orange, and planted a broomstick with a red flag in it. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wish this would get fixed \u2013 it\u2019s only getting worse,\u201d said the doorman, who was running out of ideas and equipment.<\/p>\n

On April 22, a doorman from a nearby condo complex sprayed the pothole and the street around it fluorescent orange, and planted a broomstick with a red flag in it. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

The crater erupted in the middle of the two-lane, one-way, westbound strip smack in front of the 17-story \u201cQ41\u201d condo complex, located in the former industrial neighborhood-turned-residential hotspot. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

One Q41 resident mocked Mamdani<\/a> for donning a hard hat on Staten Island last month to trumpet the 100,000th pothole fixed <\/a>by the city since he took office on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what sewer socialism looks like \u2014 big promises, no action, and a doorman left doing all the work,\u201d the resident said Friday. \u201cThe city couldn\u2019t fill a pothole, so our doorman stepped in to keep people safe. When he retires, who\u2019s looking out for New Yorkers \u2014 the Department of Transportation or nobody?\u201d<\/p>\n

Building residents following Monday\u2019s crash placed an abandoned Con Edison street barricade in front the hole to prevent future accidents. They\u2019ve had to move it back multiple times because vehicles knocked it down.<\/p>\n

A pick-up truck cruising down the dimly-lit strip early Monday swerved to avoid being gobbled up by the crater, and slammed into a parked car, damaging both vehicles, eyewitnesses said. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

Q41\u2019s condo president, who identified herself as \u201cNastasha,\u201d said the DOT\u2019s \u201cpatchwork isn\u2019t holding and the pothole is still a real safety hazard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether or not it directly caused the accident, it\u2019s the kind of condition that puts people at risk every day.\u201d she added. \u201cThis needs a permanent repair, not another temporary fix.\u201d<\/p>\n

A massive car-eating crater in Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s old Long Island City state Assembly district is expanding faster than NYC\u2019s budget deficit.\u00a0 Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s failure to fill a hole continues to baffle local residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really dangerous<\/a> because it\u2019s right in the middle of the street and it\u2019s hard to see \u2014 especially at night \u2014 because there\u2019s no lighting around,\u201d said Amy Chen, who works at M Tea across the street from the super hole.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by JC Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city finally filled a massive car-eating crater in Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s old Long Island City district in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[11231,33110,543,2062,33111,48,553],"class_list":{"0":"post-54035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zohran-mamdani","8":"tag-department-of-transportation","9":"tag-long-island-city","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-roads","12":"tag-sinkholes","13":"tag-us-news","14":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116505516977735754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}