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‘Nightmare’ at LICH site
Residents: Construction project annoying, dangerous
Cobble Hill Association president Amy Breedlove (right) and her co-member
Amanda Sue Nichols worry that construction traffic will put locals in danger.
Duck waddles onto subway tracks
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developments at the former
Long Island College Hospital
site flood the area with
construction vehicles, causing
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danger to pedestrians.
“I just see this getting
worse and worse, and you
have people trying to navigate
through all of these huge
construction vehicles,” said
the president of the Cobble
Hill Association Amy Breedlove.
“I don’t know what to do
to make the DOT have that
concern for human life.”
Dumbo-based developer
Fortis Property Group is in
the process of erecting two 15-
and 36-story towers on opposing
sides of Hicks Street as
part of the five-building project
around the former hospital,
which the company has since
dubbed River Park.
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plans to build a medical
center in front of the taller
tower once it acquires the land
from Fortis some time in the
coming months.
Hick Street is already regularly
visited by long lines of
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ers, which struggle to make
the tight turn onto Pacific
Street to access the work site,
according to Breedlove.
“They have to get their
trucks in and out, but there
has to be a plan where it doesn’t
make everything a logistical
nightmare,” she said.
Contractors have also made
it more difficult and dangerous
to access the nearby Van
Vorhees dog park overlooking
the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway,
by blocking the
entrance and sidewalk with
construction fence for 1 River
Park, the shorter of the two
towers —leading many locals
to jaywalk across the busy
one-way street instead.
A construction worker flags
traffic to make sure there’s safe
pedestrian crossing, and during
non-working hours contractors
set up a plastic barrier
from Atlantic Avenue towards
the dog park, according to a
public relations spokeswoman
for the River Park development,
Anna Crowley.
Breedlove, however, says
she has passed by the site many
times after-hours and has never
seen the barriers set up.
“I really don’t remember
ever seeing them out so that
people can walk by them,”
she said.
The Transit agency has
signed off on the dev’s traffic
management plan, according
to a spokeswoman, but Breedlove
said that the most recent
draft she saw did not have adequate
measures for pedestrian
protection and managing
the flow of trucks.
Avila noted that the agency
meets with the Association
and local Councilman Brad
Lander on a monthly basis to
discuss traffic concerns.
Breedlove said that she had
not received the signed-off
plan and Avila did not provide
a copy by press time.
By Rose Adams
Brooklyn Paper
It was a wild duck chase!
A duck hobbled onto the
tracks at the Eighth Avenue
Subway Station on Wednesday
morning, causing an
hours-long circus to bring
the waddling wayfarer to
safety, according to transit
officials.
A train service supervisor
spotted the quacker walking
on the northbound tracks just
before noon, and reported the
bird to authorities, said MTA
spokesman Shams Tarek.
Subway operators were instructed
to proceed with caution
as personnel tried to remove
the duck — which took
nearly a half hour. At about
12:25, the subway supervisor
was able to trap the bird under
a construction cone, according
to Tarek.
An hour later, the supervisor
safely escorted the hen to
the platform, and then carried
her outside the subway station
to prevent her from jumping
back onto the tracks, Tarek
said. After some time, the employee
handed the quacker to a
friendly passerby who offered
to take the bird home.
The bird hunt didn’t cause
any train delays — although
it did coincide with a separate
slowdown because of a
train’s activated emergency
brakes, Tarek said.
At the same station in June,
commuters spotted a turkey
on the station’s tracks, and in
Aug. of 2018, police rescued
two goats found grazing by
the subway stop.
A quacker by the Eighth
Avenue subway station
slowed down service.
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