Upcoming Events

The New York City Department of Transportation will make a presentation to Brooklyn Community Board 8 on a redesign for Vanderbilt Avenue between Dean Street and Grand Army Plaza. The redesign will include the addition of bike lanes and Greenstreets medians.

In May 2006, DOT put Vanderbilt Avenue on a "road diet", reducing it from four through lanes to two through lanes with left turn bays and a striped center median. The project successfully calmed traffic and made the corridor safer and more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. Now, DOT is returning to construct the greenstreets medians made possible by the project and at the same time modifying the street design to add bicycle lanes. The medians will make this important corridor in this pedestrian oriented area friendly and more appealing to walk along and safer to walk accross. The bicycle lanes will fill a key gap in the bicycle network by connecting Prospect Park with the popular east-west Bergen and Dean Street bike lane pair. The project may begin implementation this spring with completion of the greenstreets elements scheduled by this fall.