Dude good luck I will tell you from experience it is going to take you a long time to get paid. Also you should have dialed 311 and there you fill the claim. They will send you some forms to fill out and you have to send them back with pictures of the rims as well (which you have). You get a letter back saying they recieved your stuff and it is under review and may take a year before anything happens.

Anyway good luck.

I went to get everything checked out today and everything was fine.

I called 311 as soon as it happened and called in the claim. I also called 911 and reported the pothole. People are telling me it takes a year to get the money. If that's the case, then so be it.

JEBUS! thats nasty, only time ive seen somthing like that in person was on a jeep that landed on a rock sideways back in the bush. Thats insane a pothole could do that much damage! I dont even remember the last time I saw a pothole.. letalone one that could do that, one more reason i'll never pay money to go to NY.

glad your ok. other people got flats but what about their rims getting crushed?

jeez. glad you ok dude. Was that the SI expwy? FDR has some nasty ones too. And right after the 3rd Ave. Bridge ( another story).

Forget about the FDR, thats why everyone does the speed limit. Same with the Belt.

Go to the city Comptrollers site they have an application for reimbursement.

wtf....u think it has to do w/ the mayor cutting down the $ on repairs or something?

i remember a while back the moon craters weren't as bad.

Hes cut money on everything. Potholes have always been a problem in spring right after the salt and water freezing and creating potholes... so now in the summer time they're not out there as much.

But yea its the $$$ issue.

damn thats freakin crazy

No, potholes really are like that here in the city. Theres one on the upper level in the center lane of the Verazanno Bridge going towards Staten Island, after you pass the second tower, its a huge crater, I fell in it once and my fuse cover fell off onto my legs.

Like I said in a previous post, I bent and cracked one of my rims about a month ago here in the city too... lowered cars + rims do not belong here in the city.

Damn...that must have been a vicious pothole to fubar your rim like that . Good thing you're ok.

damn if they give you money thas good i hope that wont happen to me... scary

yeah I am still waiting on a bent rim that I got on the Belt parkway

Darn..... I am surprised the tire held it together like it did.

That's one messed up crack.

<3 stock wheels

Ouch that really looks bad. That's probably the worst rim crack that i've seen before. Wow...i'm sorry that happened.

what's the word now?

After going back to the site where it happened I saw that the hole (which is now all patched up) had to of been bigger than a basketball at least. I'm not going to give an accurate size, because I don't know. But the patch is about 6 feet long and 2-3 feet side, so who knows. Also, where the pothole was and where I stopped was only about 100 feet, and I moved about 20 feet to the right. So that's how fast I stopped.