Cobble Hill traffi c
Hicks Street is already
regularly visited by long
lines of cement trucks and
18-wheelers, which struggle
to make the tight turn
onto Pacifi c 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 diffi cult 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
fl ags traffi c to make sure
there’s safe pedestrian crossing,
and during non-working
hours contractors set up a
plastic barrier from Atlantic
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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 Transportation
agency has signed off on
the developer’s traffi c management
plan, according to
spokeswoman Lolita Avila,
but Breedlove said that the
most recent draft she saw did
not have adequate measures
for pedestrian protection and
managing the fl ow of trucks.
Avila noted that the
agency meets with the Association
and Councilman
Brad Lander (D–Cobble Hill)
on a monthly basis to discuss
traffi c concerns.
Breedlove said that she
had not received the signedoff
plan and Avila did not
provide a copy by press time.
Cobble Hill Association president Amy Breedlove (right) and her co-member
Amanda Sue Nichols worry that construction traffi c will put locals in
danger. Photo by Elissa Esher
Cement trucks already line Hicks Street and locals fear it will only get
worse. Photo courtesy of Amanda Sue Nichols
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