MTA AGREES TO FOOT REPAIR BILL FOR CLUB : N. HOLLYWOOD NIGHTSPOT SHUT DOWN WHEN FLOORS BEGAN TO SINK.Byline: David Bloom David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Early life Daily News Staff Writer MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. officials said Tuesday that the agency will pay for repairs to a North Hollywood nightclub closed last month when its floor sank as much as 18 inches after subway tunneling was begun nearby. ``I feel fabulous,'' said Isabel Lopez, owner of the El Sombrero som·bre·ro n. pl. som·bre·ros A large straw or felt hat with a broad brim and tall crown, worn especially in Mexico and the American Southwest. Nightclub, which closed March 11. ``My main thing is to get it fixed and get back in business.'' Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chief Executive Officer Joseph Drew said the agency will send an independent engineering firm to the nightclub to determine what repairs are needed. Preliminary cost estimates are about $20,000, agency officials said. The MTA also will reimburse Lopez for the money lost while the nightclub was closed, Drew said. ``It needs to be fixed,'' Drew said. ``I want to solve the problem right now instead of arguing with any number of people about who's at fault.'' MTA officials still claim that a faulty rain downspout down·spout n. A vertical pipe for carrying rainwater down from a roof gutter. on a neighboring store caused the soil under the nightclub to erode, and that the sinkage sink·age n. 1. The process, amount, or degree of sinking. 2. A sunken area; a depression. was not the result of the tunneling work. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. , an MTA board member who represents the area, said the decision by MTA staff to make the repairs is a step forward in resolving cases in which businesses are shut down and quick action is called for. Elsewhere, the MTA is facing more than $1 billion in legal claims for tunnel-related property damage along Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out . ``The experience of Hollywood has taught all of us that the MTA treated the public as the enemy, not as its customer,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``We shouldn't argue while a perfectly upstanding, taxpaying business person goes out of business and stops paying taxes. We should at least treat them as well as we treat contractors who overrun budgets and get change orders rubber-stamped.'' The new mitigation approach will affect only businesses shut down near MTA construction sites, where there is an issue over whether tunneling work might be related to the problem, Drew said. Though 17 other businesses have filed claims in North Hollywood for subway construction damage, the nightclub was the only one forced to close its doors. After the initial sinking was reported, city building inspectors yellow-tagged the building, forcing it to shut until repairs could be completed. Jerry Schneiderman, chairman of Hollywood Damage Control and Recovery Inc., the umbrella group representing Hollywood Boulevard property owners suing the agency, said the help for the nightclub was a positive sign. |
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