Fed-up New Yorkers kept in dark by 35-block stretch of scaffolding lament city’s never-ending renovations: ‘It’s ugly as hell’
NY Post
An Upper West Side avenue has one of the most densely scaffolded stretches in the entire city — with a more than 30-block-long area having just a single block entirely free of the reviled structures on either side.
West End Avenue between 107th and 72nd streets in Manhattan has 57 scaffolding sheds across the 35-block stretch, according to a recent count by The Post — with only the block between 73rd and 74th streets free of any scaffolding.
That leaves pedestrians on every other block along the otherwise leafy route navigating a shed on at least one side of it.
Up and down the entire 48 blocks of West End Avenue, which starts at 107th Street and ends at 59th Street, there are a staggering 85 scaffolding sheds, making it the fourth most scaffolded avenue across the city, according to city data.
The other three avenues with more sheds in the city are also in Manhattan: Broadway with 196 sheds, Fifth Avenue with 164 and Park Avenue with 111 — but each of those avenues is more than three times as long as the mere 2-mile stretch of West End Avenue.
Residents of West End Avenue, which caters to many longtime New Yorkers who can measure the passing years by the rise and fall of scaffolding blocking their view, are both outraged and vexed by the structures’ resilient presence in their neighborhood.
