Big changes coming for Downtown Brooklyn’s dangerous Tillary Street
The city’s Department of Transportation is giving Tillary Street in Downtown Brooklyn a makeover.
Tillary Street is the main entrance to Brooklyn from the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, but its Downtown Brooklyn intersections are among the most dangerous in the city.
Construction has begun that will improve safety on the hazardous stretch by adding traffic-calming measures, improving bike lanes, widening pedestrian walkways and building wider medians and curb extensions. The plan will also beautify the currently drab streetscape with trees, plantings and benches.
The intersection of Tillary and Adams streets — popular with bikers and pedestrians going to and from the Brooklyn Bridge — averaged 39 crashes a year during a DOT study covering 2008-2010. During these three years, 144 people were injured — almost nine times the state average.