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March 8, 2010
Want to fix Fourth Avenue? Slow ‘em down!
The Brooklyn Paper
by Andy Campbell
In all the talk about how to fix Fourth Avenue, a consensus is emerging around one single idea: slow those cars down!
That’s the new message being touted by city planners, transportation officials and residents as more and more people get on the bandwagon to turn at least the Park Slope portion of the Downtown-Bay Ridge speedway into more of a neighborhood street.
...The [New York University] students will present their final proposal [for re-imagining Fourth Avenue] in May. NYU grad student Noah Levine wouldn’t release much until the proposal is finished, but we do know that Borough President Markowitz wants furniture on the sidewalks, a tree-lined portion that mimics Park Avenue in Manhattan and a wide pedestrian walkway.
But he also wants the New Jersey Nets to move to a 19,000-seat arena at the northern terminus of Fourth Avenue, which is expected to be completed in 2012 and would be something of a punctuation mark on the boulevard’s boom, which began with the 2003 rezoning that allowed 12-story residential buildings, a change in zoning that set off a wave of construction, mostly between Atlantic Avenue and the Prospect Expressway.
Posted by eric at March 8, 2010 11:47 AM