Paving program arrives on Euclid Avenue after decades of pothole repairs, patching

MUSIC TO OUR EARS: A 3-man crew from Maisano Construction Co. of Hackensack used jackhammers to remove old pavement and curbing on Euclid Avenue, between Prospect and Summit Avenues in Hackensack, above and below.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- The sound of jackhammers on Euclid Avenue this morning signaled relief, not annoyance.

The street, which forks as it approaches Summit Avenue, is one of the widest in the city's Fairmount section.

But Euclid between Summit and Prospect avenues has been neglected for nearly 3 decades, and wasn't paved when other blocks between Prospect Avenue and Main Street were repaired several years ago.

Instead, numerous pothole repairs and patches left a minefield of rough and broken pavement for residents to navigate even as they were paying some of the highest property taxes in Bergen County.

Now, replacement of catch basins and the installation of wheelchair ramps at Euclid and Summit precede a long-overdue paving of the block.

Euclid Avenue, from Summit to Prospect Avenues, is one of the 11 streets being repaved by the end of the year, according to the city's Fall 2019 newsletter.

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HOW OLD? The work includes the replacement of bricks that could be 100 or more years old. The crew took a meal break this morning, below.