Plant shop owner Dimitri Gatanas says MTA's Park Avenue Viaduct repair pushing business to brink

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Plant shop owner Dimitri Gatanas says MTA's Park Avenue Viaduct repair pushing business to brink
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The MTA is replacing the aging Park Avenue Viaduct, but a business owner whose plant shop sits underneath the tracks tells elijahwestbrook it's a major inconvenience that may cost him everything.

, weeks after the MTA announced it was planning to do work on the more than century old viaduct.

He's been in contact with CBS2 over the last few months giving updates. His plant shop, called the Urban Garden Center, sits on two plots of land that have been joined together between 116th and 117th streets. "They told me that would be ready mid-summer. Now, I'm being told it won't be ready until maybe in September. Now, I have to move ASAP on one lot," he said."Our calculations show that we're spending well over $100,000 a year extra in operating expenses because of this whole arrangement."

 

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