The Greening of Brooklyn Bridge Boulevard Begins
A week after we called the City Economic Development Corporation to ask about the construction delays we’re happy to report that workers are digging up Boerum Place as we write this. When we spotted the backhoe and workers this morning they had already dug quite a hole, and appeared to be relocating a utility or traffic signal.
EDC was helpful in providing some more information on the plans. They said in an email that the “Boerum Place improvements will mirror that on Adams Street” and will include “milling, resurfacing the roadway, signage, streetscape elements, reconstruction of the medians and sidewalks, drainage work, landscape work, and utility work.”
EDC said work is expected to begin in late spring early summer of 2007 and should be done by late spring or summer of 2008. Looks like they may be getting a head start.
See a slightly closer shot of the workers and hole below.
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[...] preliminary work is done, the sidewalks widened, trees have been cut down, and now the long-promised (re)greening of Boerum [...]
Pingback by 110 Livingston News & Blog » Boerum Place Green Median On The Way — March 14, 2008 @ 10:19 am
This is a great thing!
Comment by Kyle Scott — April 17, 2008 @ 11:07 am