Stephen Rex BrownDon’t worry, they’re not real! The brain-noshers above are part of a promotion for the video game Zombie Swipeout at the Bleecker Street station this morning. Similar photo ops are taking place all over the city. A contractor working on the renovations to the subway station was overheard joking that he better alert a safety inspector on duty.
If this sort of thing annoys you, you may want to steer clear of the L train Sunday.
Marit Molin Sherwin Zabala stands in front of the construction that he says is hurting his Downtown Floor Supplies store on Lafayette Street.Three business owners at the corner of Lafayette and Bleecker Streets say that construction on a new subway passage is warding off customers, leading to their revenue plummeting by as much as 50 percent. Workers for the Metropolitan Transit Authority have been busy since 2009, building a passageway between the uptown 6 train at Bleecker Street and the Broadway-Lafayette station. Unfortunately for the businesses at the entrance to the downtown 6 train, the latest phase of work, which according to an M.T.A. spokesman started four weeks ago, requires a construction zone that occupies parking spaces in the area and forms a barrier in front of the three store entrances. Read more…
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