Concrete was poured yesterday to build a footing for the LinkNYC 5G tower at the southwest corner of Horatio and Washington Streets (100 Horatio Street). A footing was constructed two days ago for the tower at “100 Jane Street” (actually located at the northwest corner of West 12th Street and Washington Street).

It is outrageous that this is happening only two weeks after the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation told Community Board 2 that it was still accepting comments on these towers;  two weeks is obviously completely insufficient to evaluate comments and make any necessary changes.  In fact, given the time required to survey the sites and schedule work crews, it seems likely that the decision to proceed with these towers was made before the Community Board hearing even occurred. OTI and CityBridge are ignoring both the resolution that CB2 passed two weeks ago asking for a moratorium on these towers, and the letter sent by Borough President Levine asking that installation be slowed in residential areas.

Update: the Village Sun has published an detailed article about pushback in the West Village after construction started on these two 3-story-tall 5G towers. Construction has been temporarily halted due to community pressure, but could resume at any time.