Aug. 30, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen North Brooklyn residents and street-safety advocates took to the streets of Greenpoint on their bicycles Tuesday night in protest of the city’s stripped-back redesign of McGuinness Boulevard. Protestors accused Mayor Eric Adams of ignoring the community and his own Department of Transportation by deciding the city would abandon…
May. 21, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
As the Department of Transportation resumed work on its scaled-down redesign of McGuinness Boulevard last week, dozens of Greenpointers rallied on the side of the thoroughfare, calling the city out for abandoning the original road diet it finalized last spring.
Aug. 30, 2023 By Adam Daly
Construction on the long-awaited redesign of Greenpoint’s McGuinness Boulevard will start in the first week of September, the city’s Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
Aug. 11, 2023 By Adam Daly
Northern Brooklyn pols and local activities have criticized the mayor’s office for the delay in implementing a safety redesign on Greenpoint’s McGuinness Boulevard after a delivery rider was injured on the stretch of road Thursday.
Jul. 14, 2023 By Adam Daly
Greenpoint community advocates and local pols gathered at City Hall Thursday, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to “do the right thing” and not roll back his support for the planned redesign of McGuinness Boulevard, which had been finalized after months of community meetings.
Jul. 12, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Mayor Eric Adams appears to have ordered the city’s Department of Transportation to reverse course on a planned redesign of McGuinness Boulevard after powerful locals and influential members of the administration voiced their opposition.
Jun. 19, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The future of the city’s proposed redesign of McGuinness Boulevard, which had seemed all but certain a few weeks ago, may be in question as opponents ask the Department of Transportation to reconsider its plans.