TESTIMONY
Testimony by Andrew St. Laurent, Attorney at Harris St. Laurent and Wechsler Law Firm, on Construction Project Impacts of 341 10th Street
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Andrew St. Laurent testifies about the potential disruptions and impacts of a construction project over an MTA tunnel. He emphasizes the difficulties of the site and the likely disruption to F and G train traffic south of Smith's Ninth Street during the multi-year construction period.
- Suggests the subcommittee, committee, or city council committee on transportation should consider these impacts before approving the application.
- Acknowledges the large turnout for the project and thanks the staff for managing it.
- Focuses his remarks on the challenges posed by building over the MTA tunnel.
Andrew St. Laurent
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Okay.
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Great.
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I'll start again.
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Alright.
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Good afternoon.
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Chair Riley, sub committee.
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Council member of Vilez.
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Thank you for having us today.
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I also want to thank the sergeant and arms and the sub committee staff who worked very hard to manage the very large turnout in connection with this project.
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I'm just gonna combine my remarks to the difficulties of the site regarding the MTA and the tunnel.
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That is the site would be built over.
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As the chair noted at the beginning of today's meeting, this is an active subway platform.
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Containing the f and the g train lines at service, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
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The applicant noted the challenges.
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They noted that this was a difficult site.
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A number of times, they talked about having to cite the elevator cores over the streetscape in order to avoid interfering with the active subway lines.
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They noted the positive aspects of the access to the subway that this building would offer.
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What they did not comment on or which I have not heard about is the need to move thousands of tons of material and equipment over this active subway line over the process of construction.
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The applicant said during the Community Board 6 meeting that this would be done by Crane, I have some some skepticism about that.
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But regardless of the manner in which that that material is intended to be moved, there can be no question, but that this is going to disrupt.
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FNG traffic south of Smith's Ninth Street during the course of this construction project, which I understand will take years.
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And I think that is an impact that either this committee, the this sub committee, this committee, or the city council committee on transportation should consider.
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In deciding whether or not to go forward with this application.
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Thank you very much.
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That is my time.