This pothole is old enough to drive!
A massive street crater has been wreaking havoc on cars and trucks in The Bronx for more than a decade, neighbors say — and has earned the dubious distinction of being the oldest pothole in city records.
The four-inch-deep crater at Adee and Bouck avenues in the Allerton section has seen multiple fill jobs over the years, residents said. But the temporary fixes are immediately ripped open again by tires on the “well-traveled” thoroughfare.
“I’ve been trying to avoid this pothole for years,” lamented Bronxite Desmond Young.
“The problem is, they fill it every year or couple of years, and it’s good for a while, so you forget about it,” Young, 39, said, “and then it comes back and you have to relearn to avoid it.”
The earliest recorded complaint about the hole dates back to January 2010, according to the NYC Open Data portal. At 16, the pothole would be old enough to get a learner’s permit in New York and drive over itself.
But long-time residents say the cantankerous crater is no troublesome teen — but is actually an ancient menace.
“I’ve been here 50 years: it’s been here forever,” said Bronx resident Martin Moreira, who maneuvers the foot-wide pothole via mobility scooter following a knee-replacement surgery.
“Every now and then you see a truck out here and they patch it, but there’s a whole lot of traffic on the street and it opens up again,” Moreira, 72, said. “The city needs to patch it up for good.”
“That corner is always sinking, and a money pit for the city,” added Jose Bonilla, a landlord at a nearby house on Adee Avenue.
“They come, they fix it and it breaks again,” he added, “so even if they fill the pothole, it comes back.”
Aside from dangers posed to pedestrians and costly damage done to cars, multiple potholes along the intersection also flood during storms, and are noisy when hit, Moreira claims.
“Cars bang into it all day, every day,” the 72-year-old said. “I live across the street, and it’s right outside my window. It’s constant noise … everybody hits it.”
To date, the one spot has amassed dozens of pothole complaints, with all but one of those marked as resolved.
The bizarre complaints come as Gotham endures one of the worst pothole seasons in years, The Post first reported earlier this month.
More than 19,600 pothole reports have been made by New Yorkers this year to date — with nearly half of those lodged in Queens (8,800) — double the reports made during the same time period in 2025, according to a Post analysis of 311 data.
The city’s pothole crisis has already turned deadly. A 46-year-old man was killed earlier this month after his stand-up scooter struck a pothole in Ozone Park, Queens.
A citywide blitz this past weekend scrambled to fill more than 7,000 potholes with over 90 crews – but some union members have admitted the Big Apple doesn’t have enough workers to meet the demand.
“We just don’t have the manpower to do the job in a timely manner,” said Joe Puleo, president of Local 983 of District Council 37, which represents assistant highway repairers.
Puleo told The Post he doesn’t expect all the potholes to be filled until June.
The pothole plague is so bad that a 23-year-old mechanic is raking in at least $2,200 a night setting up shop with a stack of replacement tires next to a crater in Brooklyn.
Young told The Post he’s noticed at least two more potholes at the same intersection this year, and is now “swerving to avoid those ones and going straight into this one.
“It’s ridiculous, I’ve had to take this car in twice,” Young said, reporting one cracked rim and a thrown steering wheel alignment.
“Fix the damned thing already,” he said, “and make it permanent.”
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