By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MIDTOWN WEST — A small sinkhole on a busy crosstown street forced workers to block traffic during rush hour Monday as they worked to repair it.
The one-foot-by-one-foot hole shut down one of the eastbound lanes of West 57th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues shortly after 5:30 p.m.
The sinking area was a portion of a larger hole in the pavement that had been filled just last week, a Department of Transportation worker on the scene said.
DOT said they did not know what had caused the small portion of the street to cave in.
Workers from the Department of Environmental Protection used jackhammers and other equipment to repair the hole as cars drove by during rush hour.
