When a big truck rolls by her home on Albany Avenue in Kingston, Cathie King can feel it.

"The whole house rattles," she said during a break from yard work. "The pictures move on the wall."

Her neighbor, Ed Scully, can hear more than just the truck when one drives by.

"I hear all kinds of metal rattling under the sidewalks," he said while on a laundry trip to his grandmother's house.

Residents on the stretch of Albany Avenue between I-587 and Foxhall Avenue cannot help but speculate.

"[It] makes me wonder what kind of stuff is loose under there," Scully said.

Kingston Mayor Steve Noble recently wrote to the common council about his concerns over what the regular flow of heavy commercial vehicles has been doing to the neighborhood's already fragile infrastructure, particularly the sewer and storm sewer systems.

Noble wrote that since weight restrictions on the stretch of Albany Avenue were lifted more than 15 years ago, commercial vehicles have been using the neighborhood as a wormhole between the New York State Thruway and Route 9W.

The mayor said the heavy vehicles are "rapidly creating problems" for the buried infrastructure on the stretch of less than one mile on the state-controlled road.

To steer heavy vehicles back out of the midtown neighborhood, the mayor is asking the council to draft a resolution requesting that the State Department of Transportation impose new weight restrictions for vehicles.

"I definitely support that," Scully said.

"It seems like it would be a simple solution," King said. "I don't see any reason for heavy trucks, other than local traffic, to come through here."

In the letter, Noble said the Department of Public Works and several neighbors are thinking similarly about the risk to the sewer system.

"... We all agree that this is a necessary change," Noble wrote, "and will ultimately prolong the life of our city's buried infrastructure."