Ok so I figured I'd start a new pothole thread since all this damn snow is making the plows rip up the streets now and to better help out members here to watch out where they drive. Just post the location of the pothole and maybe the severity of damge it can cause. It also can help out to post what lane and what side of the lane if on a highway and also the direction (N,S,E,W).

Location: Triboro Bridge Toll Plaza E-Z Pass lanes
Direction: Bronx bound from Queens
Severity: Rim Ending potholes plus possible suspension damage.
Brief Description: Right when you're about to enter the plaza there's a plethora of potholes to navigate thru. You almost have to zig-zag your way around til the toll booths. Plus the genuises that work ther thought it would be smart to put the black rubber bases from the orange poles in some of them so cars won't hit them hard.

 

^ ME TOOO , my m3 fell in a pothole on the belt pkwy coming on the exit lefferts blvd , it was hugh!!!

Now I have to call my insurance company, dealer says it looks bad , more details 2morrow






Heres my steering wheel position while going straight

 

^^ Damn it's off that much!! Last year I blew out a tire and dented my aspec chrome rim in a crater filled with water on the BQE right before Nothern Blvd headed towards BK. Now I gotta take the city to court cause they basically made me waste a year of phone calls just trying to get reimbursed.

 

^How do I file a claim with the DOT , i'm tired of the F in potholes!!

 

Go on to the city comptroller's office website everything is there to file a claim. Make sure you have your receipts and pics of the current pothole before they fix it. I took pics but now the city is saying they "can't find" who did the work before the hole came about. The funny thing is I know who did the work on the highway. Be prepared for a long process. they expect people to forget about it that's how they get over on people. Just stick with it. You have a year and 90 days from the date of incident to file a small claims court suit. Go thru the city first then do the court thing it'll just help your side more.

 

^Thanks

 

No prob brotha that's what I made the thread for

 

LoL. I like the thread. Wait til people start posting... we all are going to have horror stories...

Add this to post #1 so that people can just copy and paste.
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Location: Bronx, Yankee Stadium. under Macombs Damn Bridge
Direction: North bound service road
Severity: Never hit it cuz i'm scared of it
Brief Description: Pothole sunk into the ground. It just looks like it'll hurt and shake your car apart. Google FTW. Pictures below

Location


Looking at the exit north to south


what it looks like

 

Ooo boy, I'm going to have fun with this thread.

When the snow clears a little and I get back on the road, I'm going to takes pictures of the many holes around the neighborhood. I can think of 10 severe ones off the top of my head.

 

google earth them!

 

Location: Belt Parkway - After Flatbush Exit/Ramp (Before Bridge)
Direction: East Bound - Left Lane
Severity: Not too severe but it will make you cringe
Brief Description: 4-5 (small to medium sized hoes) on the driver side of the far left lane.

 

Lets make this thread easy.
Location: ALL OVER NYC
Direction: NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE GOING YOU WILL HIT ONE
Severity: OK--------> WTF!!
Brief Description:

THIS IS NYC MAN!!

 

Location: Lodi, NJ
Direction: East
Severity: Small/ Moderate
Brief Description: When heading eastbound on Route 46 going East (right after the 'bridge') there is a string of potholes from the constant construction. They are right when all the lanes shift to the left.There is a string of them. Nothing too major, but still enough to make me cringe if I hit any of them

 

Holy Krap Dave - Not the new M3 - It was christened New York Style. Well now it's wlecomed into the world. Hate effin potholes! Blame the gov't, inevitably thay had something to do with it. Just kidding, or am I?

 

Location: all of belt pkwy!
Direction: both ways
Severity: egg roll
Brief Description: the whole damn highway is a giant pothome especially between ocean pkwy and erskine rd. stay under 40 and you might still have your rims afterwards.

 

When you go on the belt pkwy on the lefferts entrance ramp , its looks like someone was pogo sticking with a jack hammer!! , there is like 50 pot holes within the 30 ft span of the road, its crazy , and its been like that for the past 4 months , city isn't doing anything.

 

Hoes, where they at?!?! LOL

 

i like small to med sized hoes!!!!...lmao

 

^Me too , I don't mind getting into one of those

 

Location: Merging onto the Whitestone Bridge (after paying the toll)
Direction: Going towards Queens
Severity: Small to medium sized HOLES
Brief Description: Left lane up until where the bridge widens a bit

 

Location: 59th street bridge
Direction: Both lower levels , into the city and out
Severity: High , very large holes
Brief Description: just drive slow

 

Location: Cross Island Pkwy, right lane, right before the LIE Eastbound ramp
Direction: Southbound
Severity: Makes you scream when you hit it, the noise is so loud.
Brief Description: The right lane leading up to the LIE exit is pockmarked but there was 1 big one that i hit driving at around 50 mph. thankfully there wasn't any damage. If i were you, i'd stay in the middle lane until you are about 20ft from the ramp instead of riding the right lane.

 

Location: GCP WEST BOUND LGA AIRPORT
Direction: WESt
Severity: FML everywhere
Brief Description:the whole highway is a huge pothole. FCUK JEWBERG

 

theres way too many potholes out there right now

 

Any hole that swallows up a car can no longer be considered a pot hole. I think they should be called road craters. This is by far and away the worst winter I can remember for all of the roads that are being destroyed. What's worse is that the townships and counties are very poor and aren't fixing the craters, even on the major highways (Route 287 as an example).

 

Man this thread is kinda point less. It would be a great thread if we lived in a place where potholes were rare but NYC is far from this. Hard to be driving on the highway and think back to this thread and say pothole coming up LOL. I actually try remembering them to post them up but by the time I register one I've dodged a dozen more. These streets are horrible and we can only hope there's money to repair them


This is my car's thoughts on the subject

 

clearview expy northboud. 75 feet before exti 5

 

I think we can all agree that nyc streets are screwed up to begin with. And most us already know exactly where certain potholes are but with all this snow and salt due to these storms more are popping up. So to an extent the point of the thread is to point out those new potholes. Maybe where you spotted one is some else's daily route and they didn't realize it was there.

 

Location: Bronx River Parkway-northbound at the begining by Story Ave
Direction: Northbound
Severity: Not too bad if you go slow but can blow a tire if you hit it fast.
Brief Description: Not really potholes but cracks going across the roadway that are opening up.

It's actually when you come off the Bruckner to go on the BRP northbound right after the curved entrance. On the overpass. The expansion joints opened up and are getting deeper and wider in all three lanes.

 

^ i know the one...

Man i just drove on the cross bronx north bound left lane... STAY AWAY!!!! i felt each and every hole in my dodge caravan so i can just imagine how it would feel in my TL.... thats why my TL dont drive on the cross bronx.. once you pass Rosedale ave.... drive slow!

 

how do i file a complaint for wheel damage? i need to fix my work wheel due to a pothole belonging to either kearny or newark...

 

I would imagine you would have to contact your city's comptroller's office just like for NYC.

 

Some of the ones out there right now should not even be called pot holes. They are legit holes in the earth.

 

thats where i cracked my 20'z, they split in half.

 

DAMNNNNNNN ISH!!!!!! did you get the city to repair this?

 

Insane

 

Damn ish!! Yeah you definitely need to get the city to replace that for you. It's gonna be a long fight but stick it through. Make a police report and take pics of location before they fix it cause they are gonna give you the run-around.

But on another note are those Donz rims? I heard horror stories about them splitting apart. My boy has 20s on his tl and he hit a pothole and the center of the rim broke off from the barrel and came right off the car.

 

last year nj turnpike enterance 13A








this year at 1&9 express from pulaski skyway to elizabeth a shit load of patholes was dark and raining couldnt see one of them hit it and it blew my tire...

luckily tire was brand new like 2 weeks and had manufature road hazzard program on it... i got brand new tire for best price FREE !

 

^ Damn...I think for us NY/NJ folks the road hazard warranty shouldn't even be a question.