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July 24, 2008

Closing Bell: Repaving Everywhere!

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What's up with the massive repaving kick that's going on in Brooklyn--or at least in Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn? Like many of the streets in the neighborhood, Clinton Avenue (above) was repaved last week after a couple of weeks spent removing the old pavement. (An interesting fact we just learned: The pavement removal is outsourced to a private company and then the city contractors come in to do the repaving.) Is this happening in The Slope? Flatbush?




Posted by Brownstoner at 4:00 PM | Comments (29)
Categories: Clinton Hill, Closing Bell

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State St. in Brooklyn Heights was recently stripped.

Posted by: tscola at July 24, 2008 4:26 PM

I dont know what's up with it, but they had cops patrolling the streets with megaphones in the morning saying "move your cars, you will be towed!" Not a great way to wake up at 5:30am. But I will admit it's nice to drive the streets at night and not be surrounded by cars, made me feel like I didn't live in the city for a minute.

Posted by: LilHouseNBklyn at July 24, 2008 4:28 PM

York Street by the F stop stripped as well.

Posted by: BrooklynLove at July 24, 2008 4:28 PM

East 7th st in Kensington and Midwood is tore up as well.

Posted by: jescajeda at July 24, 2008 4:35 PM

East 7th st in Kensington and Midwood are tore up as well.

Posted by: jescajeda at July 24, 2008 4:36 PM

In Vinegar Hill and the bike route by the Tow Yard.

Posted by: bromptonman at July 24, 2008 4:36 PM

Waiting for Lafayette between Classon and Nostrand to get some nice new beautiful paved streeets, but alas, I may be waiting for a while..

Posted by: BSandCHBorderBaby at July 24, 2008 4:37 PM

Its good to finally have well paved streets in clinton hill again. But in a semi-related note, does anyone know when Fulton street will get repaved and turned into a two way street again?

Posted by: gatesave at July 24, 2008 4:39 PM

I think Middagh St in Brooklyn Heights as well.

Posted by: JLater at July 24, 2008 4:40 PM

I recall walking by 8th Street in Park Slope and remembering that it looked freshly paved...

Posted by: 11217 at July 24, 2008 4:55 PM

C'mon guys, you know why...it's a big election year!

Posted by: bmfesq at July 24, 2008 5:10 PM

BorderBaby, contact Community Board 3 (718-622-6601) and ask them to request that this be added to the DOT paving list. To be honest, I cannot make any sense of why some streets get paved and others don't, but you're leaving it to chance if you don't make the request.

gatesave, the project is now supposed to be done this fall. However, it is my prediction that the job will go longer than the current completion date with awful consequences: it will then be too cold to pave and paving will be postponed until spring 2009. Let's hope my cynical self is wrong.

Posted by: g man at July 24, 2008 5:11 PM

Not too long ago, in Prospect Heights, they paved Vanderbilt and then tore it up and then repaved it. In the end, it was to put in a median. I wonder they might also be doing this in Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, etc to also put in medians?

Posted by: PH at July 24, 2008 5:23 PM

I realize this is a Brooklyn-centric conversation - but I was Bon the upper west side the other day and noticed that the stretch of Broadway in the 70's was also recently ripped up and repaved.

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at July 24, 2008 5:33 PM

the vandy median redo was a planned traffic calming measure. the way they did it, where they had to rip up new paving to install medians, was odd, but maybe it was a necessary in that it would ensure the medians weren't damaged by the street scraping phase??

Posted by: 1842 at July 24, 2008 5:57 PM

I see plenty of Bklyn getting the repave.Brooklyn is a hotspot and so now the roads and major thoroughfares have to be smoothened out. Boerum St off the Bklyn Bridge, paved and medians,Bedford Avenue,St James Pl, Clinton, State St, Lafayette from Flatbush to Fulton.They need to do Nostrand Ave,Franklin Ave,Washington Ave as well.

Posted by: iluvclintonhill at July 24, 2008 6:19 PM

Broadway in Williamsburg was finished maybe 5-6 months ago, with a median.

Posted by: clintonhillbilly at July 24, 2008 8:19 PM

i believe i saw part of clinton street in BH being repaved this AM...right around the livingston street intersection.

Posted by: bowl of dicks at July 24, 2008 8:43 PM

Yes, we definitely need Nostrand repaved.

Posted by: Ibis at July 24, 2008 9:55 PM

avenue N in flatbush has been in the process for a few days now

Posted by: jesb at July 24, 2008 10:13 PM

They need to hit Atlantic. I hate that f'n thoroughfare. I always take BQE to Van Wyck (JFK, etc.) to go around that bad boy.

Posted by: DOW8000SP800 at July 24, 2008 10:16 PM

Nevins Street, from (at least) Atlantic to Fulton.

Posted by: zinka at July 25, 2008 12:05 AM

My bed was literally shaking this morning as they were scraping away the old pavement, I was having flashbacks to earthquakes in SF.

Posted by: LilHouseNBklyn at July 25, 2008 2:26 AM

The destruction of newly paved Clinton Avenue started yesterday morning. 8:30am woke up to the sound of a sledgehammer between Greene and Lafayette... oh well.

Posted by: Ali Baba at July 25, 2008 7:40 AM

Outside of Brooklyn, but they are repaving Broadway on the Upper West Side as well. It's been going on for a few weeks.

Posted by: fawn at July 25, 2008 9:28 AM

What are you talking about Ali Baba? Someone's busting up the street with a sledgehammer? Weird...

Posted by: 1842 at July 25, 2008 11:16 AM

Hoyt street in CG will have pavement removal beginning today. No parking signs went up over the last couple of days.

Posted by: HDL at July 25, 2008 12:03 PM

They won't repave Nostrand. With the craters and the light patterns, Nostrand might as well be known as the Cross-Brooklyn Expressway. The only thing that keeps people from touching 80 on Nostrand is the potholes.

Posted by: Bed Stuy Bully at July 25, 2008 3:09 PM

67th St and Senator St in Bay Ridge got ripped up this week. 67th was in pretty sorry shape but Senator St was fine.

Why they don't repave 2nd Ave south of 39th along with some of intersecting streets to 3rd Ave is beyond me. You almost need a dirt bike to navigate those crappy roads. Maybe some Brooklyn pol owns a nearby tranny shop.


Posted by: Steve at July 25, 2008 11:32 PM

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