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Yesterday morning's rain caused a recently installed sewer main to burst, flooding the basement and parking garage of a Battery Park City luxury apartment building. Water levels reached up to 20 feet. Not only were car owners greeted with news that their vehicles were either submerged or floating on top of sewer water, hundreds of tenants at 90 West Street were evacuated.
Fire officials explained that, per WNBC, "rain flooded a re-routed sewer pipe, and the water sewage came flooding back in because of the high tide." The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which owns 90 West, said that the flooding occurred "when a sewer main pipe near 90 West St. was temporarily cut and not capped during the relocation of a transformer vault as part of work at the World Trade Center site." Wait a minute - another mid-construction snafu?
The Fire Department worked to pump out water from, and other utilities were turned off in the process - and it may take days to turn them back on. Management at 90 West is offering to pay for tenants' hotel rooms ("as long as it is a reasonable rate"), and reader dietrich said that pamphlets were being handed out, naming six hotels with rooms available to tenants. He also noted, "The pedestrian walkway bridge crossing the Westside Highway into World Financial Center One was also without electricity and had to be lit up with portable lanterns."
Photograph 90 West's lobby (the only place with light) - and note the wires and hoses running out - by dietrich on Flickr
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Another great reason not to own a car in the city.
What, exactly, would be a "reasonable rate" for those living in a luxury apartment building in Battery Park City?
It's not *that* luxury....all these articles make it sound like the Plaza, sheesh. The only thing that makes it luxury is that everything is only about two years old, the building opened for tenets in 2005.
I live there (and no, I don't own a car. None of the neighbors I know own a car, either. It's mostly commuters who park in there). The hotels they've pointed us to are all between $200 and $400 a night--which is way too much for myself and the neighbors I've spoken with. We're all staying with friends, and the management is deducting however many days it takes from our rent.
And as everyone I meet who lives in Battery Park City insists on telling me, 90 West is not in BPC, since it's on the east side of West Street.
Now building management is saying it could be up to two weeks before we can move back in.
I agree the use of the word luxury is a stretch. I only moved to the city at the beginning of October and 90 West was the least expensive studio I could find (in an admittedly short period of time).
But some of the blogs I've read regarding the flood have really jumped on the luxury angle - portraying the tenants as snotty, spoiled rich kids, which just is not true, from what I've observed.
Who owns this building?
The article says The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, but I thought it was BCRE (Brack Capital)?