The Department of Transportation is rushing to install speed bumps within a one-half mile radius of the arena site in anticipation of the Barclays’ opening on September 28th, said Council Member Tish James in an announcement posted today by the Washington Avenue Prospect Heights Association. Here are the locations: Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place; Carlton Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street; Plaza Street West between Lincoln Place and Berkeley Place; Plaza Street West between Berkeley Place and Union Street; Clinton Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street; Prospect Place between Carlton Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue; Prospect Place between Vanderbilt Avenue to Underhill Avenue; Prospect Place between Underhill Avenue to Washington Avenue; Sterling Place between Washington Avenue and Underhill Avenue; and Washington Avenue between Gates Avenue and Greene Avenue. The DOT is also working with Community Board Two and residents of Boerum Hill to create a neighborhood slow zone there, which will include more speed bumps.
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  1. This is not about speed bumps, but the angle of that photo makes me harp on it anyway: wtf is up with the roof? We were on foot and saw it from a certain angle–where even on foot the white roof is totally visible from a block away– and my THREE YEAR old said, “When are they going to put the roof on?” It looks horridly unfinished. I pulled up the renderings and they show a plain white roof, but no sign of all the mechanicals, which in reality are totally just plopped on top. That annoys the crap out of me. What’s with architectural renderings that completely ignore the mechanicals? There are a couple buildings on Fourth Ave that do the same: totally passable buildings, but then with the giant mechanicals just plopped on top in plain view. Seriously?? Like they are going to be invisible or something? I thought the design of the stadium was less than lovely, but now that it is actually up, if they leave the roof looking like that, it strikes me as kinda awful.

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