BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Tired of doling out directions
to wandering visitors, the
NYPD has successfully lobbied
the city to install a more prominent
sign directing pedestrians
and cyclists to the Brooklyn
Bridge promenade.
“When you’re standing at
the intersection of Adams and
Tillary streets going onto the
promenade, you can’t actually
see the Brooklyn Bridge,
and many people are stopping
NYPD offi cers and asking
them for directions,” Department
of Transportation’s manager
of the project, Mia Moffett,
told Community Board 2’s
Transportation Committee at
a virtual meeting on Jan. 21.
“So based on this feedback and
these conditions we’ve started
looking at installing an overhead
gateway signage spanning
the promenade here.”
The new sign will hover 14
feet above ground, with two
designs currently being considered.
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Both options call for a
12-foot long directional insignia
— but one design features
a 2.5-foot wide sign with simple
black-and-white text, while
the other is 4-feet wide and
has a graphic symbolizing the
bridge’s iconic cables.
The agency will use either
a vinyl wrap or a laser cutout,
and the proposal will still need
to go before the city’s Public Design
Commission for approval
in March, offi cials said.
Agency reps could not immediately
say when the sign
will be installed, or how much
the project costs, and a followup
request to DOT’s press offi ce
was not returned.
Members of the civic panel
liked the proposal, but added
that the agency should consider
a perpendicular marker
as well, so that people walking
along Tillary Street can
see it too.
The meeting soon pivoted
to discussions about why there
was such a heavy police presence
at the foot of the walkway
in the fi rst place, with a squad
car stationed there daily, in addition
to NYPD-marked cubes
right behind the vehicle blocking
the entrance and taking up
space at the busy intersection.
“I would get that NYPD vehicle
off of the space, because it
makes an already crowded area
more crowded and it serves no
reasonable purpose,” said local
Paul Schreiber.
DOT reps said that the police’s
Counterterrorism Bureau
wanted cops there following
a 2017 attack, when a driver
killed eight people on the bike
path along the Hudson River in
Manhattan.
“We’ve talked with Counterterrorism
and NYPD feels the
need to keep this car here in order
to keep the bridge secure,
unfortunately,” said Moffett.
DOT will install a more prominent sign directing to the Brooklyn Bridge
promenade after police complained that too many people were asking
them for directions. Google
But committee members
pointed out that the city had
already installed a retractable
bollard before that incident further
up the walkway where the
path bends and narrows, adding
that a recent widening of
the promenade along Adams
Street and the revamp of the
median at the entrance were
pitched by offi cials as replacing
the need for a permanently-stationed
police car.
“We were told in the discussion
about the new mid-block
crossing that the security that
would accompany the protection
of the promenade on either
side of the walkway… would
obviate the need for the police
car,” said Jon Quint. “So where
will there ever be a time when
there doesn’t have to be a police
car, I don’t hear that.”
DOT reps, however, said the
vehicle was still necessary to
protect the stretch between the
entrance and the bollard less
than 800 feet away closer toward
the bridge, while also saying
any further comment should be
directed to the NYPD.
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City to install Brooklyn Bridge walkway sign
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