The entire 500 block of State Street was repaved by Colarusso & Sons in November of 2019, just over 3 years ago. While it is not nearly the mess that South 3rd Street is, it has its share of issues already. Cracks abound, and there are already several patched areas. According to official documents, Colarusso was paid $72,500 for that work, paid for by State DOT funds, also known as NY State taxpayer money. Any repairs to the street are now paid for with Hudson taxpayer funds.
Last week I bicycled over a slight drop in the level of the road surface in the middle of that block, in the east bound lane. The sinkhole must have appeared sometime in the past month or so. DPW covered it with patch a few days ago. Notice the cracks near the patch. Notice, too, near the parked car, that there is another patch beyond the recent large, round patch. And another one in the other lane. Both of those have been around a while.
Certain patches you can expect to last a long time, such as for potholes or cracks. Patching a sinkhole is a temporary solution, though. I guarantee that sometime this year or next, DPW will have to rip apart the pavement over the sinkhole and deal with the problem below as the hole continues to widen and drop. Better to get to it sooner than later.
Robert Perry is probably in the midst of compiling his list of portions of city streets to repave this coming November under the biannual NY State DOT CHIPs program. He has plenty of horrendous pavement to choose from, especially on Columbia Street. If you want your street repaved, I suggest you try to contact him and make your pitch. I have never once heard Mr. Perry mention at a council meeting what streets he has chosen to be repaved. One wonders how a street makes it on his repave list.
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