Currently the roads around our neighborhood are a bit torn up. To the left here is a picture of 11th Avenue around 29th Street; to the right is a map of the street construction, and you can trace that very cursed green line of construction/destruction from 11th Avenue from 30th Street all the way down to 22nd Street; and then 22nd Street and 26th Street are also torn up. And so what exactly is going on here and how much longer is it going to last?
We had the same question and did a little digging. NYC maintains a “Permit Management System” accessible here where you can get a sense of any street construction you’re curious about. The permit for this particular construction opened last Friday, September 25, 2026, and is valid until October 30, 2026—which is probably the outer bound of how long this is likely to last but gives you a sense of how long it is likely to last. The permit type is for “Contract Roadway Milling,” with “milling” being the process of grinding off and resurfacing the top layer of a roadway. This is like a zamboni for the street, the purpose being to fix cracks and potholes.
In NYC, the Department of Transportation typically waits 2-3 weeks before resurfacing a road after grinding it off (“About 80% of roads are resurfaced within 3 weeks of milling, with 25% completed within 2 weeks.”). During this “cure” period, utilities like ConEd get the chance to repair their pipes and cables. Because so much of NYC’s infrastructure is underground, NYC has a way longer “cure” period than other cities before a road is resurfaced.
Upshot is that we’re likely not going to have repaved roads until mid-October.
Update 10/10/26: It looks like 11th Avenue, at least from 24th to 30th Streets, has now been resurfaced—though not yet painted with dividing and bike lane lines. 26th & 22nd Street remain in their “milled” state.