Brooklyn officials push DOT for concrete answers to BQE questions
Elected officials in Brooklyn are pressing the city Department of Transportation to give them more information about the upcoming $4 billion reconstruction of the BQE.
In a letter fired off to Commissioner Polly Trottenberg on Friday, officials including U.S. Rep Nydia Velazquez, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Comptroller Scott Stringer and more listed a number of concerns about the project’s timeline, scope, the involvement of the state and other questions.
The reconstruction of a 1.5-mile stretch of the interstate has had residents of Brooklyn Heights in an uproar since DOT said it favored a plan that would temporarily replace the landmarked Brooklyn Heights Promenade with a six-lane BQE bypass for roughly eight years, bringing toxic pollution into the neighborhood.