Concrete Driveway Repair in Chelsea, Manhattan

Local Conditions

Is There Driveway Work in Chelsea?

Not for homes. Row houses and tenements here have no private driveways, and the neighborhood is built tight. The vehicle concrete that does exist is the garage entrance, the loading dock apron, the curb cut, the courtyard slab and the building ramp, and that is the work we do.

Chelsea has plenty of it. The warehouse and gallery blocks of West Chelsea have loading docks and truck entrances that take heavy vehicles every day. Pre war complexes and newer towers have garage ramps. Some commercial buildings have curb cuts onto the avenues.

Parking garages are another source of work. Chelsea has garages with entrance ramps from the street, and the apron where the ramp crosses the sidewalk takes both cars and pedestrians. A broken apron endangers both.

Heavy trucks break concrete in predictable ways. The edge at the curb cracks and crumbles, the apron settles under repeated weight, and the joint between the dock and the street opens up. Water gets under the slab and the damage spreads.

The blocks near the Hudson sit low, and West Chelsea galleries near Eleventh Avenue flooded in Hurricane Sandy. Slabs there need a good base and a slope that sheds water away from doors.