We’ve been advised by Anita Navalurkar of the Department of Transportation that single lane closures of the BQE Central, the portion below Brooklyn Heights, will continue through July. One Queens bound lane will be closed unil July 31st from Atlantic Avenue to Washington Street Monday through Friday from 12:01 AM to 5:00 AM; Saturday from […]
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Open Streets Montague Sunday: Last One Until September
This Sunday, June 30, will be the last Open Streets Montague of the spring to early summer session; Open Streets will return on September 15 for a session lasting each Sunday into the fall. This Sunday’s event, on Montague between Clinton and Henry and between Henry and Hicks from 10:00 AM until 7:00 PM, will […]
DOT Reveals New BQE Plans
As we noted a week ago, the City Department of Transportation has new plans for the reconstruction of the BQE Central, the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that runs below Brooklyn Heights, from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street, and would hold two public forums, one in person on June 20, and one on […]
DOT Presents Two New Public BQE Forums
We’ve been alerted by the Brooklyn Heights Association that the City Department of Transportation will hold two public forums “providing a project update on BQE Central, the Brooklyn Queens Expressway between Atlantic Ave. and Sands Street.” One will be in person this Thursday evening, June 20, starting at 6:30 at the City Tech Namm Cafeteria, […]
DOT Says No Major BQE Work Likely Until 2028.
As reported by amNY, under questioning from City Council Member Lincoln Restler a representative of the City’s Department of Transportation said no major capital reconstruction work on the triple catilevered section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which lies below Brooklyn Heights between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street, is likely to begin before 2028 “at the earliest.” […]
Montague Open Streets Sundays May 12 through June 30
Open Streets Montague, made possible by the businesses of Montague Street and by the NYC Department of Transportation, produced by the Montague Street BID, with support by the Brooklyn Heights Association, will be held on Sundays from 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM beginning May 12 and continuing through June 30. On these days from 10:00 […]
Upcoming BQE Lane Closures For Rehab Work
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced that the Queens bound lanes of the Brookyn-Queens Expressway will be closed between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street from early morning Saturday, April 13 to early morning Monday, April 15 to accommodate repair work. During that weekend expect much more traffic on our principal southbound thoroughfare, […]
Brooklyn Heights Association Meeting Focuses on Accomplishments, BQE, and Public Realm
Despite the protestors who prevented Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from speaking (see previous post) at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s Annual Meeting, much else was accomplished. As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, BHA president Koren Volk (photo), whose term ends soon, although she will remain on BHA’s board of directors, gave an account of BHA […]
BQE “Boondoggle”: Bad and Good News
Mary Frost’s Eagle story contains what she calls some “chilling” information about the City Department of Transportation’s and Mayor Adams’s plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway beyond the urgent repair work now underway. The bad news for Brooklyn Heights is that these plans would include demolition of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (although it would eventually be […]
More Info on Traffic Re-Routing for BQE Repairs Next Weekend
Anita Navalurkar, of the NYC Department of Transportation, has supplied information (see below) concerning the re-routing of traffic in Brooklyn during repair work on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway this coming weekend — early Saturday morning, October 14 to early Monday morning, October 16. There’s a detailed description of the planned traffic changes, with maps, here. Some […]
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