Closing Bell: Repaving Everywhere!
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…
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?
avenue N in flatbush has been in the process for a few days now
Yes, we definitely need Nostrand repaved.
i believe i saw part of clinton street in BH being repaved this AM…right around the livingston street intersection.
Broadway in Williamsburg was finished maybe 5-6 months ago, with a median.
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.
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??
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.
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?
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.