Gowanus Lounge: Serving Brooklyn

Dirt and Traffic With That Brooklyn Park?

January 26th, 2007 · No Comments

One Brooklyn Bridge Park

Today’s post is reporting that the early part of Brooklyn Bridge Park‘s life could be full of construction activity as the stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that runs above it is rebuilt. In addition, Furman Street will likely be used as a detour for traffic turning it into one very busy roadway. The bad news is reported in today’s Post:

The restructuring of a busy 2-mile stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway could wreak havoc on the planned Brooklyn Bridge Park – both for visitors and the owners of luxury condos to be built there, a recently released report suggests.

The state-commissioned report on the BQE Triple Cantilever Project – which would rehabilitate or replace the split-level portion of the highway between the Brooklyn Bridge and Gowanus Expressway – suggests the new park could be a “staging area” for construction equipment, The Post has learned.

Should all be cleared up by 2012 or 2015, give or take.

Tags: Uncategorized