Debate over BQE Central grows as NYC DOT and local officials clash on plans, community impacts, and the path toward long-term reconstruction.
This will require the closure of one lane along with the ongoing closure of the shoulder, and traffic will be pushed to a single lane.
THE Department of Transportation is closing one lane in each direction on Old Fulton Street under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Queens-bound BQE to be milled weeknights June 16–24, 11 p.m.–5 a.m.; traffic reduced to one lane. No work on Juneteenth, June 19.
TWO LANES of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway will be closed Queens-bound from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street.
ONLY ONE TRAFFIC LANE is available on Furman Street under the Triple Cantilever section of the BQE during daytime through the end of March.
Removing cantilever under the historic national landmark Brooklyn Heights Promenade would create billions of dollars in damage to Heights.
On June 22, after 27 public ascertainment meetings and many thousands of brightly colored Post-It notes, NYC Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) finally unveiled their own solution to the problem
Starting Tuesday, Oct. 15, until approximately Tuesday, Oct. 22, NYC DOT will close one lane on the Queens-bound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
The New York City Department of Transportation is hosting its third round of public workshops on concepts to improve the spaces under and around the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway North and South.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Long-delayed overnight jackhammering on the Triple Cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is set to kick off in the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 18, from
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Noisy, overnight jackhammering work on the Triple Cantilever portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that was scheduled to start on July 24 — and then held up until
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Brooklyn residents are steeling themselves for a summer of snarled traffic and all-night jackhammering, as the NYC Department of Transportation will soon begin urgent interim repairs on
COBBLE HILL — Brooklyn officials and local community members expressed overall disappointment — and even outrage — with the city’s proposals for a redesigned Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – Atlantic Avenue interchange,
Local officials and the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) say they are shocked at the city’s plan to eliminate most of next year’s budget to repair the dangerously decrepit Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
Fixing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is much bigger than just rebuilding the triple cantilever holding up the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Cobble Hill residents said at a town hall last week. Now
The mood at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting Wednesday night was upbeat as President Martha Bakos Dietz confirmed that an existential threat faced by the neighborhood — a temporary
The job of rebuilding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is just too big, too multijurisdictional and too expensive for New York City to take on by itself, speakers testified at a packed
They’re breathing a collective sigh of relief on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, because it won’t be demolished for BQE repairs. The mood on the landmarked walkway was upbeat on Sunday
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that the city would begin cracking down on overweight trucks on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and also immediately begin structural repairs on the disintegrating
The BQE panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio recommended starting emergency repairs immediately while removing one third of the highway’s lanes, in its long-awaited report on rebuilding the Brooklyn-Queens
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“As of now nothing has been finalized.”
A dozen community groups representing residents along the BQE presented the city with a united vision, setting out their common expectations for the highway’s reconstruction. The groups want a plan
A global health expert is urging officials to fund a BQE air pollution study before the city’s Department of Transportation decides on a plan to rebuild a 1.5-mile section of
The New York City Council is hiring its own engineers to review the city’s controversial plans for the upcoming $4 billion reconstruction of the BQE, Speaker Corey Johnson’s office told
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
The incoming executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association will be taking up the reins of the venerable organization at a time when issues like development and the $4 billion
The expert panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in April to study options for the $4 billion reconstruction of 1.5 miles of the BQE says it is “headed towards
Brooklyn community organizations heard on Thursday that the mayor’s BQE panel has “very little chance” of approving two major BQE rehab proposals that involve building a temporary bypass. These include
Carlo Scissura, chair of the 17-member panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to evaluate options for the massive, $4 billion reconstruction of the BQE, said on Tuesday that the
The Brooklyn Heights Association has revised its plan for the $4 billion rehabilitation of the BQE — and has developed a couple of alternate concepts as well. BHA presented their new
The panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to evaluate the controversial reconstruction of a 1.5-mile decrepit section of the BQE underpinning the Brooklyn Heights Promenade has issued its first
Civic and business groups in DUMBO and Fulton Ferry Landing have a message for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new BQE expert panel: As long as the city is rebuilding the
A section of the BQE from Sands Street to Atlantic Avenue is so decrepit it needs to be replaced before 2026, or tens of thousands of trucks daily will be