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Glendale’s $43M sewer project is fully funded
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The $43 million project to fi x Glendale's sewers is already funded,
Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley announced.
Avenue in Middle Village is because
the sewers in Glendale connect to
a larger system that fl ows out into
Flushing Bay, while the sewers in
Middle Village and Maspeth connect
to Newtown Creek.
“All in all, it’s a huge win for Community
Board 5 and it’s a huge win for
upper Glendale and it will be so for
Forest Hills as well,” Crowley said.
The other projects in the board’s top
10 priorities that have funding are the
reconstruction of the Glendale Library
branch, which is expected to break
ground in January 2018; the rehabilitation
of portions of Highland Park,
of which a series of meetings have
already taken place to discuss the $9
million project; new street plantings
for the neighborhood; and replacing
synthetic turf fi eld and running track
at Juniper Valley Park.
Crowley noted that once construction
begins on the reconstruction of
the soft ball fi elds at Frank Principe
Park in Maspeth, which is expected
to get underway this November, the
city can focus on Juniper Valley Park.
“We will be meeting to mull over the
design for the track and fi eld, which
also includes an extra $300,000 for exercise
equipment,” Crowley said. “That
was part of a participatory budgeting
request.”
The other projects that made the top
10 are reconstruction of deteriorated
catch basins; improving pedestrian
and vehicular safety in the area of
69th Street and Grand Avenue, and
the LIE service roads; evaluating the
condition of the structure of the elevated
M line; replacing or repowering
Stage Zero freight engines; and the
reconstruction of Edsall Avenue.
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The members of Community
Board 5 (CB 5) who unanimously
voted (33-0) to adopt the slate of
capital projects for the neighborhoods,
led by a sewer reconstruction in Glendale,
got some good news regarding
these projects at the monthly board
meeting.
Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley
visited the CB 5 meeting on Oct. 11 at
Christ the King High School in Middle
Village to tell the full board that at least
fi ve of their top 10 budget priorities for
Fiscal Year 2019 — which slightly differs
from the Executive Committee’s
recommendations — are fully funded.
Crowley announced that funding
for the board’s highest priority, the
redesign and reconstruction of the
sewer system in portions of the CB 5
area having the worst fl ooding problems
with a focus on the area of Cooper
Avenue at 76th Street and along 77th
Avenue, is in the city’s 10-year capital
plan.
“It’s going to be almost a $43 million
project. I warn you, it will be disruptive
while the construction happens,
but it’s better than getting fl ooded,”
Crowley said. “And that’s what’s been
happening to a lot of these homeowners
and residents who live in that
section of upper Glendale.”
The design and development phase
is expected to be complete in time for
the 2019-2020 budget, she added.
The reason this sewer project could
not be done at the same time as the
current sewer projects on Calamus
Avenue in Maspeth and Penelope
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