Our friends at the Brooklyn Heights Association have advised us that the City Department of Transportation, in an effort to reduce the problem of vibrations from the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, has ordered the resurfacing of the BQE from Brooklyn Bridge to Remsen Street. The BHA’s announcement said that the reduction in traffic because of COVID-19 may have made the vibration problem worse because it allows trucks to move faster.
Your correspondent went looking for evidence of resurfacing work, and got the photo above, taken from the north end of the Promenade, showing the surface of the upper, Queens bound, level having been milled to a point just south of the bridge that carries Columbia Heights over the BQE. While the work is intended to reduce vibrations in the longer run, in the shorter one the milling and resurfacing may actually increase them.
