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Plenty of Ridgewood streets set to be repaved this fall
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Things are about to get much smoother
for drivers traveling through
parts of Ridgewood and Glendale.
The city’s Department of Transportation
(DOT) plans to repave more than
a dozen Ridgewood streets as well as
a portion of Central Avenue in Glendale
starting next month, according
to a tentative street resurfacing list
provided to Community Board 5 that
the Ridgewood Times obtained.
In all, 31 streets within the confi nes of
Board 5 (Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth
and Middle Village) are slated to be resurfaced
beginning in September and
continuing through November. According
to District Manager Gary Giordano,
street milling — the removal of the top
asphalt layer from the roadbed — could
start within three to four weeks.
Soon after street milling is completed,
crews will place a fresh layer
of blacktop on the street. During the
milling and paving processes, each
roadway will be closed to vehicular
traffic. Parking is also prohibited;
signs will be posted days in advance
of the scheduled work. Any vehicles
found parked on streets during work
hours will be towed away.
The tentative list includes Ridgewood
streets located south of Myrtle
Avenue and north of the Brooklyn/
Queens border (Wyckoff /Irving Avenues),
a largely industrial area that’s
been slowly evolving into a residential
and artistic community. Also on the
list is a portion of Central Avenue in
Glendale between 69th Place and Cypress
Hills Street, a road oft en used
by drivers as an alternative to Myrtle
Avenue.
The streets on the tentative list, as
broken down by neighborhood, are
as follows:
RIDGEWOOD
Centre Street between Cypress and
Myrtle Avenues;
Cornelia Street between Cypress
and Wyckoff Avenues;
Decatur Street between Forest and
Wyckoff Avenues;
Forest Avenue between Decatur
Street and Myrtle Avenue/George
Street;
George Street between Forest/Myrtle
and Wyckoff Avenues;
Hancock Street between Seneca/
Myrtle and Cypress Avenues;
Jeff erson Avenue between Cypress
and Wyckoff Avenues;
Norman Street between Myrtle and
Wyckoff Avenues;
Palmetto Street between Myrtle and
St. Nicholas Avenues;
Putnam Avenue between Myrtle
and Wyckoff Avenues;
Seneca Avenue between Myrtle
Avenue and George Street;
Stephen Street between Forest and
Myrtle Avenues;
Summerfi eld Street between Myrtle
and Wyckoff Avenues; and
Weirfi eld Street between Cypress
and Myrtle Avenues.
GLENDALE
57th Street between Clover Place
and Cabot Road;
65th Street between Otto Road and
Central Avenue;
73rd Place between Edsall and Myrtle
Avenues;
Cabot Road between Cypress Avenue
and 57th Street;
Clover Place between Cypress Avenue
and the dead end;
Central Avenue between 69th Place
and Cypress Hills Street; and
Vermont Place between Cypress
Avenue and Highland Boulevard.
MASPETH
54th Street between Arnold/Metropolitan
Avenues and Flushing Avenue;
60th Place between 60th Drive and
the dead end;
61st Street between 55th Drive and
Fresh Pond Road;
69th Lane between 60th Avenue and
Queens Midtown Expressway;
69th Street between Queens
Midtown Expressway and Eliot Avenue;
and
Brown Place between Queens
Midtown Expressway and Caldwell
Avenue.
MIDDLE VILLAGE
65th Lane between Admiral and
Metropolitan Avenues;
85th Street between 58th Avenue
and 60th Road;
86th Street between 58th and 60th
Avenues; and
Queens Midtown Expressway between
85th and 86th Streets.
The tentative list is subject to
change; all scheduled work, when
posted, is weather permitting. For
more information, call 311.
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