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Several politicians and public officials turned out yesterday to celebrate the completion of the Boerum Place planted median. From left to right in this photo, you’ve got Joe Palmieri, DOT Borough Commissioner; John Dew, Community Board #2; Seth Pinsky, President of NYCEDC; Joe Chan, President of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership; David Yassky, Councilmember; Marty Markowitz, Borough President; Edolphus Towns, Congressmember; Carl Hum, President of Chamber of Commerce. The new median runs all the way from Atlantic Avenue to Fulton Street, and brings order what used to be one of the more hectic traffic spots in the Downtown area. The ride down this stretch is also a little smoother now, as the road was just repaved.
Boerum Place Getting Spruced Up [Brownstoner]


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  1. this photo smells. if politicians spent half the time doing things as they spend taking credit for things we’d be much better off. median is great but for goodness sake. save the back patting for something significant.

  2. LC, the new raised median was not installed as a pedestrain refuge. The previously paint-only median was made more formal to physically separate the cars making turns on to northbound Adams Street from both directions. After the signal sequence was changed, as you note, cars used to crash into each other; now they crash into the median. I have heard that the Department of Transportation is going to paint a dashed line through the intersection to help drivers end up in the correct lane.

  3. Am I the only one confused by the pedestrian island that has appeared on Adams at the corner of Atlantic on the northbound side in front of the HOD?

    The effect has been to create one lane for those turning left off Atlantic onto Adams and two lanes for those turning right off Adams. The first time I saw it was a couple of weeks ago and everytime I drive by, there are more tire tracks and skidmarks on it where cars have driven up on the thing. DOT put up one of those black and yellow striped signs on it to make it more obvious and that was also knocked down.

    It was only three lanes of traffic before the median, and the lights were timed so that cars were not turning at the same time. Why exactly was $20k of cement needed when pedestrians only have to cross three lanes before they reach the median? The light is timed to allow pedestrians to make it across six lanes of traffic, so that even the elderly or those with strollers, small children etc should have been able to make it to the median.