As the Second Avenue subway construction drags on (and on and on and on), locals have a new complaint: that the barricades put up for subway construction hide the sidewalks and make passerby vulnerable to crime. One salon worker was stabbed on Second Avenue between East 86th and East 87th streets last week, and one nearby business owner is calling the subway construction corridor "this Alcatraz over here." [NYP; previously]
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