After the snowiest February ever, Mayor Bloomberg helped out with the city's pothole blitz by filling the two millionth pothole recorded by his administration. Located on Slater Boulevard on Staten Island, Bloomberg shoveled some asphalt into the "Grade C" (the most severe!) pothole yesterday and declared, "This winter has been a long and snowy one, placing enormous stress on our roads. Fortunately, the City's workforce is rising to the challenge posed by this season's record snowfall, filling more than 15,000 potholes since Saturday in a pothole blitz."
He also bragged, "We have been able to identify and fill an astounding 2 million potholes since 2002, in part because we have given New Yorkers the power to help the City get the job done through 311, and by adding another set of eyes on the street with our SCOUT inspectors. By meticulously tracking all pothole data, making it available to the public and holding agencies accountable for results, we have vastly decreased the time it takes to fill a pothole in the City."
Of course, there were some Slater Boulevard residents who were skeptical of the effort: Apparently the four-inch pothole had been filled two weeks ago, but neighbors told the Post, "It lasted about a week, then all the stones jumped out of the whole thing because it wasn't filled too well." You can file a complaint about a pothole either by calling 311 or filling out an online form.
Also: Fun picture of the Mayor with a garden gnome here. The gnome is Pothole Phil, who the Staten Island Advance explains is "used to highlight the borough’s plight with untreated road fissures in recent year.
