Greenpoint takes Manhattan!
Several concerned Greenpoint residents, alongside North Brooklyn and city-wide elected officials alike, gathered in front of City Hall on Thursday morning. The goal? To call out Mayor Eric Adams’s recent decision to block the long-awaited redesign of McGuinness Boulevard.
The redesign plan counts the support of every North Brooklyn elected official, several of whom joined in person. Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and a representative from Comptroller…
This is nonsense. The plan doesn’t make Greenpoint safer. It guarantees more traffic on local streets, more dangerous evacuation and emergency situations, and a burden on local businesses. But it sure does make for a good photo op and donations from lots of corporations who want it to be harder to drive or do business and force you to use their ride-share services. Every other north-south road in Greenpoint already has bike lanes. It is hypocritical of this group to say they are doing it in the name of safety and fairness. Share the damn road.
As a 1-mile, 4-lane highway, McG draws a huge volume of non-local vehicles off of the BQE into Greenpoint at rush hours. Off-peak, it encourages highway-level speeding when the 4 lanes are empty, especially at night.
The key point of the redesign is to reduce the 50% of traffic using McG as a shortcut between the BQE and LIE during rush hours and calm excessive speeding at off peak times.
It maintains McG as a truck route, keeps free parking for the minority of locals who own cars and adds business loading zones on every block. The bike lanes are specifically designed with FDNY approval to operate as emergency access lanes.
The design was developed through DOT physical outreach at 249 intersections, 6 public design meetings and more than 750 public comments to the DOT. The DOT also surveyed 46 local businesses and conducted private meetings with the industrial business zone.
The benefits are improved pedestrian safety, more foot traffic for local businesses, less air pollution and less non-local traffic short-cutting through the neighborhood.
No wonder more than 7,000 locals and Greenpoint’s entire elected delegation supports it!
Privilege sea of karens and over paid government officials.
Lincoln Restler- 2018 Annual Wage $132,671
Jumaane Williams D- 2020 Annual Wage $183,801