This is pne pothole — or whatever you want to call it — that just will not go away.
A gaping crater in the middle of a busy Brooklyn street — which went unrepaired for weeks while the city dithered over what to call it — was filled yesterday morning, then ripped up just hours later.
As if that wasn’t weird enough, more city workers came after four of their colleagues dug up the freshly paved hole — and filled it for a second time.
That makes for two refills in one day — perhaps the height of bureaucratic bungling.
The street action came after The Post revealed that former Taxi Commissioner Fidel Del Valle complained about the hole and another one nearby to 311, but they weren’t fixed because, technically, they weren’t “potholes.”
The city’s Department of Transportation suggested he determine what type of “street defect” plagued Flatlands Avenue near East 38th Street and re-report the problem.
But yesterday, they seemed to have figured it out themselves.
The Department of Environmental Protection paved over both of the holes early in the morning — to the delight of neighbors, who have been navigating their cars around the jagged spots for weeks.
“I can’t believe they fixed it!” said Paul Frank, 75.
“It looks like they did a good job.”
But a few hours later, more DEP workers came and ripped up one of the two holes, which are about 50 feet apart.
Eventually, the workers finished their digging, then waited around for more workers to come and refill the hole.
A DEP spokesman said the initial paving was just temporary.