At a meeting Thursday night with three area community boards, the Department of Transportation unveiled its much-anticipated plans for remaking Grand Army Plaza. StreetsBlog summarized the changes in a blog post:

Lots of asphalt will be reclaimed for walking and biking. Getting to the central plaza will be a much-improved experience, as will biking to the greenmarket, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the park, thanks to an entirely two-way system of bike lanes. Russo said DOT hopes to begin implementation in August.

The plan got a very positive reaction from other stakeholders, including Robert Witherwax of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition: “We have called for a wholesale rethinking of the interplay between peds, bikes, and cars and the space devoted to each: DOT brought that.” There’s another diagram of the makeover on the jump and lots of graphics in the DOT presentation. You psyched about this? Looks pretty exciting to us.
GAP as a Walkable Destination and Bicycling Hub [StreetBlog]
DOT’s GAP Plan: Bold, Exciting, Crowd-Pleasing [StreetsBlog]
Grand Army Improvements [DOT - pdf]