infrastructure

Parts of a pedestrian walkway to a downtown Binghamton parking garage fell to the pavement below, prompting public works crews to erect barricades around the scene. Pieces of a rusting, deteriorating section of the walkway plunged into an alley between the State Street parking ramp and a building that housed the Bar 607 nightclub...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing spending hundreds of millions of dollars from windfall legal settlements with financial institutions to pay for a flurry of road and bridge repairs and improvements around the state. In his combined State-of-the-State and Budget Address January 13, the governor also proposed a historic $25 billion in spending on education in the state ...

A deteriorating pedestrian walkway linking government offices with court operations in downtown Binghamton is being repaired. Workers are removing deteriorated sections of the bridge over Hawley Street. The rusted and worn portions of the walkway are being replaced with new material...

The Exchange Street bridge which carries traffic over the Susquehanna River has reopened following a multi-million dollar renovation project. The $3 million repair job started on April 1. Mayor Richard David was at the bridge as it was put back into service Monday morning...

More than 40 percent of a city-owned parking garage in downtown Binghamton will be out of service until further notice. Mayor Richard David announced 220 of the 535 parking spaces in the Collier Street garage will be unavailable. The top two levels of the crumbling parking structure have been closed indefinitely because of "growing repair needs...

Some people who work in downtown Binghamton are expressing concern about the structural safety of the city-owned garage where they park their vehicles. Nearly 40 percent of the spaces in the Collier Street garage are unavailable as emergency repair work is done in the upper levels of the structure...

Several members of Laborers Local 785 demonstrated in downtown Binghamton today protesting the city's use of a New Jersey company for repair work at the three parking garages. Maarv Waterproofing of Clifton is to be paid about $1...

As holes continued to open in deteriorated concrete, Binghamton officials closed sections of a parking garage across the street from City Hall. About 200 of the 535 parking spaces in the Collier Street garage are unavailable as emergency repairs get underway...

A section of another downtown Binghamton parking facility was closed for a time because of a hole in the structure's concrete floor. City engineer Philip Krey says repairs at the Collier Street garage were completed a few days ago. Krey told WNBF News a small hole had opened up in a floor in the facility...

Binghamton officials decided repairs to the main level of the State Street parking facility couldn't wait until spring. A hole in the concrete was discovered during a biannual inspection of the downtown parking ramps earlier this month...