by Erin Conlon G subway service turning into shuttle bus service isn’t the only change happening in Greenpoint for the next few weeks—during the aforementioned shutdown, ‘Bedford Slip’ will be a full-time pedestrian plaza inaccessible to cars.
Bedford Slip represents the northeast section outside of McCarren Park where Lorimer, Bedford, and Nassau meet. New York City Department of Transportation data from 2019 shows the area having some of the highest foot trafficin the neighborhood, and the corner…
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DOT’s main goal isn’t to make pedestrian life better it’s just to make driving worse.
They are shutting that down and not letting cards turn left onto Manhattan. Meaning there are no left turns from N12th until Ekford St. Doesn’t sound like they thought this through. Traffic on that corner of Manhattan is arguably worst now with all the buses backing everything up.