Preconstruction: Verrazzano Narrows

Preconstruction: Verrazzano Narrows

Aerial photography, Greenways, New York City, Preconstruction

 

PROJECT:

Preconstruction at the Verrazzano-Narrows

 

 

A few early-morning starts on a new project in Brooklyn. This one is along the greenway at the Verrazzano Narrows bridge, where large marine vessels are anchored silently offshore and crowds of gulls wait for a regular morning feeding from the neighborhood retired.

I’ve photographed the bridge before, for the New York City Marathon (a few times for the New York Times, and once for Sports Illustrated): from the bridge at ground-level, from the photographers’ truck, and from a helicopter, twice. It’s an old friend.  

  • Project Location: Verrazzano-Narrows in Brooklyn, New York
  • Client: Triumph Construction, Inc.
  • Project value: 50M

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Preconstruction, progress, postconstruction and final completion photography and videography — including aerials — is what we do, and “no drama” is how we do it. No project is too far away from our home base in Tarrytown, New York. Contract requirements for large infrastructure projects are a specialty.  -Suzanne

 

  • CERTIFIED: SBA-certified WOSB, New York State- and City-certified WBE, and Port Authority certified DBE
  • REGISTERED: SAM & ORCA. Experienced in Federal Government contracting and subcontracting.
  • WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING CERTIFICATES S-130/190, L-180 
  • FAA PART 107 Since 2017
  • DUNS: 839898728.
  • FEIN: 84-2603642
  • We accept all government agency purchase orders and credit cards.

 

145 NEPERAN ROAD, TARRYTOWN, NY 10591

 

 

914-653-6154

 

 

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Setting the Floodgate, New York City

Setting the Floodgate, New York City

Architecture, New York City, photography, Resiliency

 

Setting the Gate:

New 45-ton Floodgate in Asser Levy Park, New York City

 

 

Work on our photography contract with they city’s 1.5-billion East Side Coastal Resiliency Project continues, as a new 45-ton, nearly 80-foot long gate at Asser Levy Park is installed.

The massive gate was trucked in on a flatbed, and raised into position in front of the gorgeous bath house, opened in 1908 to alleviate sanitary problems in the city. Many New Yorkers, especially immigrants living in overcrowded tenements, had no place to bathe.

The floodgate will close when the city is forecasted to receive major surges of ocean water from coastal storms.

The gate rolls on slowly-moving wheels, taking a full five minutes lock into place and block off the southern portion of the park, which opens onto East 23rd Street, from potential flooding. 

Asser Levy Park is the first of five parks being redesigned or rebuilt for the $1.5 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project, which is set to provide flood protection for nearly 100,000 area residents.

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Challenging terrain, geography and environments are a personal specialty.  Capture the energy of your team at work, on training and field exercises, with heavy equipment or in challenging environmental conditions. These photos can be used again and again: in annual reports, your socials, on office walls and other marketing deliverables.  -Suzanne

 

  • CERTIFIED: SBA-certified WOSB, New York State- and City-certified WBE, and Port Authority certified DBE
  • REGISTERED: SAM & ORCA. Experienced in Federal Government contracting and subcontracting.
  • WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING CERTIFICATES S-130/190, L-180 
  • FAA PART 107 Since 2017
  • DUNS: 839898728.
  • FEIN: 84-2603642
  • We accept all government agency purchase orders and credit cards.

 

145 NEPERAN ROAD, TARRYTOWN, NY 10591

 

 

914-653-6154

 

 

CONTACT

 

SERVING ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES, ENGINEERS AND AGENCIES BY USING PHOTOGRAPHY AS A FORCE FOR GOOD.

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Setting the Gate: East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, New York City

Setting the Gate: East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, New York City

New York City, Resiliency

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

East Side Coastal Resiliency Project:

Setting the Gate

 

 

 

 

This week, our work continued at the East Side Coastal Resiliency project in lower Manhattan. Perfetto Construction Corp. sets the first of 18 massive steel gates designed to hold back the flood waters of rising sea level storm events. New York City, February 22.

About the picture: A Bay Crane worker tests and adjusts the rigging connecting a 32-ton steel floodgate to the crane that will hoist it into position, the first of 18 floodgates to be set in the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project in lower Manhattan. It takes several people to attach the crane rigging to the massive floodgate, which arrived in a horizontal position and had to be lifted off the truck bed. Before it’s lifted, the rigging has to be tested several times. It was a long wait in the chilly February air blowing off the East River, but finally the gate was hoisted and set onto its hinges, the way a regular door is hung. Just heavier.

The project is the largest resiliency project in the United States. With a series of berms, floodgates and walls, the 1.45 billion-dollar project will protect more than 100,000 residents from storm surges and rising sea level.

a crane and rigging prepare to hoist a massive steel gate in a black and white picture

Preparing to hoist the floodgate. A Bay Crane and rigging would lift the gate into the vertical position; workers would lower it onto its hinges.

 

The project also improves the landscape and parks of the East Side, adding playgrounds, paths, raised parks, ballfields and gardens. The next big milestone for the project will be the Asser Levy Playground, which will include floodgates and flood walls integrated into the playground’s landscape.

This is a massive, $302,000 contract for us, involving thousands of prints and many visits over the four-year span of the project. 

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Put my background in editorial sports photography to work for your next project. Capture the energy of your team at work, on training and field exercises, with heavy equipment or in challenging environmental conditions. These photos can be used again and again: in annual reports, your socials, on office walls and other marketing deliverables.  -Suzanne

 

  • CERTIFIED: SBA-certified WOSB, New York State- and City-certified WBE, and Port Authority certified DBE
  • REGISTERED: SAM & ORCA. Experienced in Federal Government contracting.
  • DUNS: 839898728.
  • FEIN: 84-2603642
  • We accept all government agency purchase orders and credit cards.

East Side Coastal Resiliency Project

East Side Coastal Resiliency Project

New York City, Resiliency

 

East Side Coastal Resiliency Project

 

 

 

We’re proud to be part of the $1.45-billion dollar East Side Coastal Resiliency project, teaming up with Perfetto Contracting Co. to document this important (and beautiful) flood protection project.

Allman Environmental Services Photography has contracted to perform and deliver the photography and videography requirements of the East Side Coastal Resiliency project in lower Manhattan, a 335-million-dollar project — part of a 1.45 billion dollar plan — and a four-year undertaking that will transform the Greenway.

By any measure, this is a huge job for a photography company. When complete, we will have photographed, printed, bound and delivered approximately 62,000 prints. We will have been on-site for at least 60 days over a four-year period.

But mostly, we’re really interested is this:

The plan…calls for different types of flood prevention: salt-resistant vegetation that can survive flood waters, pop-up sea walls and berms (or earthen walls) that slope down from the sides of the East River bridges within the park. The structure will keep the water at bay when necessary and function as recreation space (or, in the case of the deployable walls, disappear) in nicer weather.”

 

A total transformation of the East Side Greenway trail and the Avenue C loop.

Gone now are the Asser Levy Playground, the Greenstreets project on Avenue C and — soon — the Murphy Brothers Park at Ave C and 18th Street. But I can’t wait to see what the new playgrounds, ballfields and Greenstreets look like.

Allman Environmental Services Photography provides progress photography and videography services (including aerial) to environmental projects of any scale. All our printing is done in-house, and we can accommodate large-scale printing requirements like those for the East Side Coastal Resiliency project. We’d love to hear about your project.