Reserved Parking

Most East Villagers don't own a car. Why would they? Who wants to drive around looking for a parking spot on the street the night before Alternate-Side Parking?

However, some of the residents of the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D have their own personal parking spaces, as part of the contract amenities for the community brought by the Avenue D Pump Station!

This is the view of the parking lot, looking towards East 13th Street:

View of the parking lot.

Here are the barricades that reserve the parking spot for its designated tenant:

Parking barricades.

They sure are rusty — I would paint mine!

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Avenue D Pump Station

As part of East Village Today's effort to bring you pictures of the East Village from where no other blogger dares to go, I present the Avenue D Pump Station!

Avenue D Pump Station.

This is also known as the 13th Street Pump Station or, more commonly, the Manhattan Pump Station.

The Manhattan Pump Station provides the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant with more than half of its flow, 155 million gallons per day for treatment.  Betcha didn't know that!

There are two High Water Mark signs, commemorating the flooding brought by Hurricane Sandy. The first is on East 13th Street:

East 13th Street High Water Mark sign.

The other is on Avenue D:

Avenue D High Water Mark sign.

The East Village isn't all artists and scoundrels!

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