The management at Zeckendorf Towers on Union Square took a new step in the ongoing saga of its delays in replacing the broken escalators at the southeast entrance to the station. The building, which has responsibility for the escalators (in return for which it received permission to build more floor space), is encasing them in a box.
Curbed has these pictures of the sheet rock enclosure in progress.
The broken escalators, which are the kind meant for use inside stores not subways, have been out of service for years by all accounts.
Ann Marie Mannino, assistant property manager of One Irving Place (aka Zeckendorf Tower), said, "The MTA requires we put a protective cover over it so no one gets hurt."
The management is waiting to hear back from a consultant it hired to look at the escalators and plans on replacing them, she said. They have no schedule as yet.
