Flatbush Ave to Become 'Grand Gateway'
Flatbush Avenue between Tillary and Hanson Place is going to get a spruce up to the tune of $15 million courtesy of the city. The idea is to create a “grand gateway” to downtown Brooklyn. The centerpiece of the project will be a “tall and very imposing” sculpture; in addition, there will be lots of…
Flatbush Avenue between Tillary and Hanson Place is going to get a spruce up to the tune of $15 million courtesy of the city. The idea is to create a “grand gateway” to downtown Brooklyn. The centerpiece of the project will be a “tall and very imposing” sculpture; in addition, there will be lots of new lights and plants. Construction should start in 2007 and last about two years.
The Manhattan Project [NY Post]
On another flameworthy subject, when is City Hall going to grow a pair and start charging East River tolls? Let the people who use the bridges pay for them, as I gladly do whenever I use the Battery Tunnel. I vote for congestion pricing too.
great — after they build some monuments and plant some trees on flatbush, could they maybe do something to stop people on bikes from getting murdered by other traffic?
As a truck driver who delivers all that ship ypu Brooklynites require I can testify to the uncoming disaster. They just redid this a few years ago. Oh I remember the last time they redid the flatbush ext. What only 4 blocks long and it took years to plant some trees (now dead) and put in some cobble stones in the median strip. This with the closing of the lower roadway of the Manhattan Bridge should make for a pleasant ride.
Seems like the Boerum/Adams corridor is a better candidate for grand entryway to Brooklyn.
Anon 10:38 – Did you not also read “Construction should start in 2007 and last about two years”?
Work has been almost continuous on Flatbush between the bridge and 4th Avenue for the last eleven or twelve years. Only recently has it become bearable again. The thought of another major constuction initiative is hardly a “knee-jerk” reaction.
Based on the amount of information available (one small rendering and a handful of phrases; “grand gateway,” “sidewalks filled with large trees and better lighting,” and “the sculpture ‘should be tall and very imposing to fit the area, make a statement, and serve as a signature’,”), I find the preceding comments about as knee-jerk as possible.
Maybe it will be another Holocaust memorial, God knows we don\’t have enough of those.
so much construction….so little taste…bad combo.
yeah right…Le Grand Boulevard de Flatbush…
Hopefully it will be as beautiful as Le Grand Palais de Target…