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Grand Street Bridge to close for maintenance
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO
AACEVEDO@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
The New York City Department
of Transportation (DOT) will
close Grand Street Bridge over
Newtown Creek for three Saturdays
in December.
The DOT’s Division of Bridges
announced it will be conducting
maintenance, which means it will be
fully closed to traffic during work
hours.
The two-lane local bridge connecting
Queens and Brooklyn will
be closed on Dec. 5, 12 and 19 from 7
a.m. to 3 p.m.
The DOT suggests drivers may use
Metropolitan Avenue as an alternate
route.
Community members and local
elected officials have called on the
city to renovate the nearly 120-yearold
bridge for many years now. DOT
set out to design and reconstruct the
bridge in response to their push, and
began to survey the area in 2019.
The project is currently in the prescoping
phase of preliminary design,
with a final design anticipated in
2023 and anticipated construction
between 2026 and 2029, according
to a DOT spokesperson. Photo by Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech
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