City plans to remove rails and cobblestones along Sunset Park waterfront
A plan to rip out a section of the Sunset Park waterfront’s cobblestones and defunct rail lines to add bike lanes and improve sidewalk safety is leaving some wondering what will happen to the area’s history if it moves forward.
Representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) joined lead designers on the estimated $37 million Sunset Park Infrastructure Project at a Community Board 7 meeting Monday to discuss the plan, which would reconstruct portions of Second and Third avenues, as well as some surrounding streets, but also remove swaths of the neighborhood’s cobblestone streets and railways.
That has railroad buffs and neighborhood boosters concerned about erasing part of the neighborhood’s history.