On a dreary winter’s day in the Bronx, the ordinary act of parking one’s vehicle turned into an unusual entrapment in ice for one unlucky van owner. According to ABC7NY, a driver found his van entirely encased in ice following a leakage from an overhead pipe, situated beneath the elevated tracks of the Kingsbridge Road Subway Station. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) was alerted to the incident and subsequently dispatched crews to aid the driver.
Jeffrey Rosario, the van owner, experienced significant distress upon discovering his Mercedes-Benz sprinter van turned into a solid block of ice, after the water from the leaky pipe solidified in the freezing temperatures. Speaking with The New York Post, Rosario recounted how his van, critical for his work in transporting building materials, was rendered immovable. “It’s still stuck in the ice,” he said, detailing his unsuccessful attempts at obtaining assistance from local police and expressing frustration over MTA’s perceived sluggish response.
This incident echoed a similar occurrence in January 2011, when an East Village driver needed a blowtorch, a hammer, and a chisel to extricate his vehicle from an icy casing, resulting from a busted underground pipe amidst cold weathers. The frigid reality of these incidents starkly illustrates the challenges faced by city residents when infrastructure falters under harsh winter conditions…