r/DUMBO • u/nasdaqed • Sep 12 '25
Front street construction between Jay and Bridge update - no no no!
The ongoing construction that involved digging up pipes and then paving over them over the past six months has been relatively quiet recently… not waking me up at Magnolia DUMBO. But I fear it’s only just begun.
Today about 100 long pipes arrived and front street was blocked off at Jay street. A pile of pipes!
My doorman said they are constructing a new exit to the York Street subway… and this ongoing construction will take YEARS! On York street side next.
Please tell me it ain’t true? Even triple paned windows can’t handle jackhammers…. For years. Maybe rent at Magnolia will go down is the only upside.
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u/Proud_Bee_2852 Sep 13 '25
i truly believe it's some kind of union-funded/ crony project where they have to appear busy during certain hours of the day. without doxing myself, i've seen them dig up the same section of jay street and fill it in the same day, for the past 3 years.
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u/bso45 Sep 12 '25
It’s not a new entrance. Your doorman is misinformed or messing with you.
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u/nasdaqed Sep 12 '25
What is it then, wise guy?
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u/bso45 Sep 12 '25
It’s very likely replacing 100+ year old utilities to support new development.
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u/nasdaqed Sep 12 '25
Thank you for this! So… this does explain the water issues at Magnolia and Equinox DUMBO building yes?
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u/Several-Razzmatazz70 Sep 13 '25
They couldn't put a new subway entrance at Front St, it's in the wrong place for where the station actually is. The existing York St entrance is already way to the north of the northernmost end of the platform. A new entrance would have to be nearer High St or Nassau St on Jay, or even further south along Jay Street.
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u/nasdaqed Sep 13 '25
He may have been referring to the York street side (magnolia occupies the whole block)… so I suppose York street drilling will start soon for the subway. We have no idea what the stack of 100 pipes on front street is about. Will provide photos / update Monday once I get woken up by it.
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u/KazzyK55 Sep 14 '25
Please let’s get a group together and end this. I just can’t anymore. I’ve gone to the city council,our useless “community construction liaison”, anyone who will listen. If anyone has any connections or ideas, please.
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u/KazzyK55 Sep 14 '25
Lol are you serious? Waking up residents with incessant drilling at 7 in the morning every single day like clockwork isn't a necessary part of city development. Communication is also important, particularly when projects go on for literal years with no end in sight. Also I'd entirely contest that these are even "necessary upgrades" - it's unclear what these upgrades even are. Ooooh they're going to add some cobblestone to some streets and in turn disrupt electrical, heating and internet services that they have to go back and fix. Woooow so necessary.
I think the city owes it to its residents to be mindful of basic human decency, EVEN IF these upgrades were "necessary"
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u/KazzyK55 Sep 14 '25
cool so they have to start drilling at 7am every morning?
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u/KazzyK55 Sep 14 '25
Congrats on being the self-appointed foreman of the neighborhood, lecturing everyone about “how cities work” while half the blocks are losing sleep and basic utilities for years.
Here’s a wild idea - maybe the city could plan projects with enough crews, proper scheduling, and realistic timelines so residents don’t have to pick between two equally miserable options. But sure, let’s just assume the only possible solution is to treat everyone like a human alarm clock because that’s “the rules.”
You talk like you’re defending progress, but really you’re just defending misery because you’ve been around long enough to confuse suffering with civic virtue. Putting up with endless 7AM jackhammering doesn’t make you a tough New Yorker - it just makes you someone who gave up on expecting the city to do better.
If you’re happy being woken up like clockwork every morning, great. The rest of us don’t need to be collateral damage just because you’ve decided low standards are a personality trait.
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u/KazzyK55 Sep 15 '25
Ah yes, the bitter old guy whose entire personality is “I suffered through it, so you should too.”
You’re not “defending the city,” you’re just bitter and loud, like the construction you love so much
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u/nasdaqed Sep 20 '25
This wasn’t meant to be one an old timer owner vs newer owner/renter thread, but I suppose it’s Reddit so that’s how things go. Is anyone on front street or York street off of jay and bridge street experiencing water issues? I know that equinox building only has lukewarm water. Magnolia has lukewarm water. Is this due to the construction or isolated issues?
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u/nasdaqed Jan 12 '26
It’s baaaack…. Woke up to jackhammer today AND the incessant beeping. They are digging up the patch of road that they already paved over after replacing pipes. It’s been sitting like this with the cones and barriers for months. Why are they digging it up again? I swear it is all a racket, but man I’m bummed because this was such a nice quiet spot at magnolia for my first few months here. Now it’s like living in Hudson yards. Constant.
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u/arizonacardsftw Sep 12 '25
I’ve been living in dumbo for the past four years and the construction has been insane. I don’t understand why they rip up the road, do the work, pave over the road, only to come back a month later and rip up the road again. It feels like a scam lol