The 2001 Service Award Winners Click Images for Larger View. A cheery billboard wobbles on three legs, anchored in part by whiskey bottles and the detritus of Downtown street life.
Earth movers sit unmoving.
A giant crane dangles nothing. Rusted rebar columns go nowhere. Where concrete risers would be impatiently awaiting the installation of their colorful seats, mounds of plastic-covered earth battle erosion from an unusually rainy winter. Historic brick buildings, which should sport polished windows and shelves lined with local wares, sit boarded and forlorn. The vision of a new baseball park and East Village redevelopment wallows mud-mired in reality.