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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MAY 10, 2020
SQUIBB
Builders with the company
Turner Construction
tore down the old bridge
in October but left the inground
support columns to
hold up the metal structure
with the new elevated path
with 9-foot wide timber ash
decking.
The original wooden
bridge opened in 2013 at a
construction cost of roughly
$4.1 million and designed
by engineering fi rm HNTB.
But the connector closed in
2014 for what were supposed
to be short-term repairs at
a price tag of $700,000, but
stayed shuttered until 2017
with fi xing costs ballooning
to $3.4 million.
During that closure,
Brooklyn Bridge Park sued
HNTB for the shoddy build,
but the parties eventually
agreed to a $1.95 million settlement
payment to the park
and no admission of liability
by either side, according
to the New York Times.
All told, more than $14
million went into building
the 450-foot bridge, tearing
it back down, and rebuilding
it again during the better
part of a decade, which
comes in at about $2,600 per
inch!
The new structure will
no longer be bouncy like the
old one, and Landau said
the Corporation was more
focused on getting a stable
construction this time
around.
“What’s most important
to us is to have a bridge that
is fully functional for longevity
and we believe that
we have that now,” he said.
ELECTION
window for collecting petitioning
signatures from
registered Democrats
from April 2 to March
17 — setting off a frantic,
three-day window to qualify
for the ballot.
That order mistakenly
stated that the Council
seat’s original threshold
was 900 signatures, and
lowered it to 270 — but in
reality, the original requirement
was 450, which
would be lowered to 135.
And complicating
matters further for the
would-be politicos, elections
bureaucrats and
city lawyers singled out
the Council primary
race as the only election
where the lower threshold
did not apply at all —
arguing that City Charter
law overruled state
law for Council elections,
offi cials claimed.
Sticking to the higher
standard would have left
Diaz — who has the backing
of Democratic Party
boss Rodneyse Bichotte
— unopposed in the primary
for the reliably
Democratic district.
But Judge Walker
overruled that determination,
arguing that the
governor did not “cast all
health and prejudice concerns
aside” for the city
legislative seat only.
The judge’s ruling
granted two candidates
a chance to take on the
party-favored contender
for the seat, which was
abruptly vacated by former
councilman Rafael
Espinal in January.
All other candidates,
like insurgent activist
Sandy Nurse and Rick
Echevarría, were denied
the judge’s lifeline, and
will be shut out of the
election, Kings County
Politics reported.
Nurse — an upstart
candidate that had garnered
the support from
local progressives like
Congresswoman Nydia
Velazquez and neighboring
Councilman Antonio
Reynoso — met the
135 count but did not get
on the ballot because of
a technicality that required
her to send legal
documents in person and
not by overnight mail,
according to an April 29
ruling by Walker.
She did make the ballot
for the non-partisan
special election slated for
the same day as the primary,
but Cuomo called
off that vote by executive
order on April 25.
The Judge also dismissed
Echevarría’s petitions
because he did not
submit the right paperwork
to the BOE, Kings
County Politics reported.
Whoever wins is
likely to sail to victory
at the November general
election in the heavily-
Democratic district and
assume offi ce at the beginning
of 2021.
The new and improved Squibb Bridge. Photo by Susan de Vries
Darma Diaz will now face two
contenders for the Bushwick
Council seat. Jonathan Ortiz
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