BIKE LANES
Boulevard.
•Fort Hamilton Parkway between
the Prospect Expressway
and McDonald Avenue.
• The Franklin Street Greenway
project (its pluses and minuses
were covered here) Quay
to N. 14th streets
•Meeker Avenue’s two-way
path from the Williamsburg
Bridge to the newly-opened Kosciuszko
Bridge bike path
•Navy Street between Flushing
Avenue and Sands Street.
•Remsen Avenue between
Canarsie Park and Foster Avenue.
Smith Street from Atlantic
Avenue to Fulton Street.
The green bike lanes will
be demarcated with paint, and
separated from traffi c by one of
several types of barrier, including
rows of parked cars, concrete
barriers, or fl oppy sheets
of plastic the agency calls “vertical
delineators,” according
to spokesman for the agency
Brian Zumhagen.
The plan also calls for the
elimination of 300 parking
spots, according to a department
spokesman.
The 10-mile plan in Brooklyn,
which was fi rst reported by
Streetsblog, makes up one third
of the 30 miles of bike lanes that
the agency wants to install
citywide this year as part of
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $58.4 million
COURIER L 18 IFE, JAN. 31-FEB. 6,2020
Green Wave plan to open
80 miles of protected cycling
paths by the time he leaves offi
ce in 2021.
The safer-street push comes
after motorists fatally struck 29
cyclists citywide in 2019, including
18 in Brooklyn — compared
with just 10 citywide, and two
in Brooklyn, throughout 2018.
The Transportation Department
released a map showing
potential routes that it wants
to tackle in 2021 — which include
closing the loop around
Brooklyn’s Backyard at Prospect
Park Southwest, a stretch
around the Red Hook, Gowanus,
Greenwood Heights waterfront,
an extension of Flatbush
Avenue from Downtown
Brooklyn to Fourth Avenue,
a connection to the Manhattan
Bridge, along with spans
in East New York, Sheepshead
Bay, and Bay Ridge.
Trottenberg also touted the
success of the department’s
two-way bike lane along a onemile
stretch of Gerritsen Avenue
south of Avenue X, where
four people died from speedingrelated
crashes between 2007
and 2016.
Beginning in 2017, the
agency added a two-way protected
bike lane, pedestrian refuge
islands, bus stops, and enhanced
pedestrian crossings to
the dangerous stretch of road —
and there have been no deaths,
and a 54-percent drop of annual
crashes ever since, according to
the department’s fi gures.
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The fi re broke out on the fourth fl oor of a fi fth avenue building,
killing two. Photo by Todd Maisel
JAZZ CLUB
yev said after surveying
the damage on Wednesday.
Brovkine is cautiously
optimistic that he may be
able to salvage some of his
equipment, but said that
an investigation conduct
by the city’s Fire Marshall
has prevented his team
and his insurance company
from taking a full
inventory, and said until
he’s effectively trapped in
limbo until their investigation
is concluded.
Until then, the jazzman
couldn’t say defi nitely
whether he’ll reopen or not
in the wake of his club’s inauspicious
start.
For all his troubles,
Brovkine has his health,
and the musician said his
heart goes out to the two
real victims of Wednesday’s
fi re, 22-year-old fi refi
ghter-in-training Steven
Munoz and his girlfriend
Destiny Marmolejo, who
lost their lives after the fi re
erupted in their fourthfl
oor apartment, trapping
them in their bedroom.
“It’s crazy, but the family
on top of us has experienced
much more,” he
said. “People are dead,
and this is the worst thing
that can happen.”
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DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg unveiled the protected bike lanes
for Brooklyn. Photo by Derrick Watterson
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