By Bobby Allyn
Newsworks
James Stuckey is a deliveryman at Franco’s Pizza at the corner of Tulip and East Huntingdon Streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.
Here’s how he described the giant fissure that spontaneously spread out in front of the shop earlier this month.
“I would say you can fit a car in there, or a truck,” he said. “It looks like a meteorite hit it.”
As crews continue to plug away at the sinkhole, city officials are describing the phenomenon of chasms opening under city roads as a growing problem with few preventive defenses.
There have been 2,019 reported sinkholes across the city this year, according to the Philadelphia Streets Department. That’s up nearly 20 percent from last year with four months left to go in 2015.
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