More than a month and a half after an SUV ripped through the front wall and counter of the CVS Drugstore on Sheepshead Bay Road, repairs are finally being made to the storefront.
A worker on the scene said the windows and wall should be completed by the end of the day.
On June 12, the driver of a black Mercedes SUV rammed through the wall. News reports of the incident said the driver was attempting to navigate out of a parking spot when his tire got stuck between a telephone pole and a bike chained to it. He then reversed too quickly, lost control and caused the accident.
No one in the store was hurt.
It’s been just two days since this garbage can appeared on Avenue Z and East 14th Street, and it’s already overflowing. Residential pickup for East 14th Street is Tuesdays and Fridays, so this can should have been emptied yesterday. It wasn’t.
But beyond the Sanitation Department’s failure to deliver service, we’re getting to witness a very interesting phenomenon with this newly placed trash bin. This corner was previously garbage free. Sure, you had the occasional drifting plastic bag or paper cup, but compared to the sidewalk around the train station, it was positively speckless.
As you can already see in the photo above, that’s changing. Trash from the packed can is falling onto the sidewalk, soon to be taken for a ride by a gust of wind.
No can, no garbage in the streets. Give a can, it’s trash city.
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A new Sanitation Department litter basket appeared on the corner of East 14th Street and Avenue Z this morning, making us wonder if the agency is finally showing concern for the torrent of trash pouring daily onto Sheepshead Bay’s streets.
At the same time, we’ve heard from a smattering of residents that the new garbage pickups that went into effect on July 1 has been improving the situation.
Have you noticed any new garbage cans in your area? Has the situation improved since July 1?
We reported on Saturday about the black Mercedes SUV that smashed through Sheepshead Bay Road’s CVS storefront, injuring nine. Surprisingly, no one was seriously hurt, but many were left puzzled about how a car could’ve ended up perpendicular, backing up into the store’s wall.
Well, some of the news reports indicate the driver was an elderly man attempting to navigate out of a parking spot. According to WPIX News (Channel 11), his tire got stuck between a telephone pole and a bike chained to it. He put the car in reverse and “lost control,” and plowed through the CVS. News 12 said he hit the telephone pole, “ricocheted” off a bike (?!), and landed in the CVS.
Now we get an employee’s account (and photos!). On the AccuWeather.com forums, an employee who was not working that day wrapped up pretty much everything we already know. But he added some inside information: employees were told the elderly driver went into diabetic shock. Now it starts to make more sense.
As for the store – they cleaned up and went back to business that evening. They have wooden boards up over the hole, and we’re predicting corporate will have it lookin’ brand new in two weeks or less. Anyone else want to hazard a guess?
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UPDATE (3:28 p.m.): We just heard a little more from the reader. Here’s what he wrote:
I do not think anybody got hurt, not sure what happened to the driver, and initially I thought it was an explosion. It sounded like a bomb going off. There were a couple of cashiers in front but no serious injury, one cashier had a scratch on his arm but nothing major and ambulance was still checking him out. People did not scream but everyone was freaked out, saw a bunch of women in tears, people panicked, ran from the front to the back.
Original story:
Apparently the driver of a black Mercedes SUV felt the CVS Drugstore at Sheepshead Bay Road and East 14th street needed a drive through. At around 2:00 p.m. today, the car crashed through the wall facing Sheepshead Bay Road, landing right where the registers are. A reader who was shopping inside at the time sent in these photos. We don’t know if anyone was hurt, and we sincerely hope no one was. We’ll update with more information as we receive it.
Ever wondered why commercial vehicles aren’t allowed on the Belt Parkway? This trucker found out just one of the reasons early this morning. His double-hitched truck slammed into the B/Q overpass around 1:30 a.m. At around that time, reader Vyacheslav M. was crossing over the footbridge. Camera in-hand, he snagged these photos, and wrote the following:
An ESTES Express Lines truck was heading East on Belt park way and did not clear the height of the bridge (11′-4″) and the entire roof top was shaved off and some cargo fell out, the truck came to a stop next to the El Greco Sign. The only car involved in this accident is the truck no one else. The driver was in a lot of pain and was rushed to the hospital by FDNY Ambulance.
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I’m not saying they were a mafia front. I’m just saying I never saw anyone go in there. Ever. E-V-E-R.
Anyway, they’ve moved. Looks like a good location for a cell phone shop, don’t it?
Photo by Ray Johnson
Department of Transportation laborers start abrasive blasting along four Sheepshead Bay Belt Parkway overpasses today.
Abrasive blasting is being used to remove paint, rust and debris from the Sheepshead Bay Road, Ocean Ave, Bedford Avenue and East 14th Street (pedestrian) overpasses.
The technique involves forcibly propelling a high-pressure stream of abrasive material against the surface to remove contaminants.
DOT will have trucks and protective netting on the scene, but no lane closures are expected.
All fixed! Brand spanking new light, pole, and base. Who’s bill is this going to show up on?
Photo taken on Wednesday, around 2 p.m.
Courtesy of Dave B.
Well, we all know drivers come first in this city. Not pedestrians, not baby carriages, and definitely not bicycles. So when someone put these pedestrian traffic lights up in what was apparently the path of local drivers, clearly the light had it coming, right? This one here, at East 14th Street and Avenue Z, was knocked down at around 10 p.m. last night by some driver busily going about his evening. Lo and behold, this jackhole street light jumped out into the driver’s path and BAM! Look at it now… not so smart are you now, Mr. Streetlight? Across the street from it – diagonally – its sister traffic light was knocked over a week or so ago. DOT had the nerve to go and put it back up. Hopefully they’ll get the message this time, or a mailbox will be next…
