Locals Voted to Fix Commercial Street in 2018. Five Years Later, Not Much Has Changed.

To more safely ferry his baby daughter between Greenpoint Landing and the rest of Greenpoint, local Greenpoint Beer & Ale trivia host Zach Eisenstat submitted a request to the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) for crosswalks and other safety measures along Commercial Street. The DOT responded that it would conduct a study of the area over the next five years before possibly installing any safeguards. Because Zach judged that more urgent action was needed to…