On October 17, 2024, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Future of Fifth Partnership announced the plan to redesign Fifth Avenue between Bryant Park and Central Park. This would be the first major redesign in Fifth Avenue’s 200-year history. Fifth Avenue houses 313,000 direct and indirect jobs and generates $44.1 billion in total wages and $111.5 billion in total economic output each year. The redesign is anticipated to increase property and sales tax … <Read More>
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DOT Announces Next Series of Workshops to Reimagine Cross Bronx Expressway
On September 24, 2024, the New York City Department of Transportation announced the next series of public workshops to discuss concepts for how to improve the Cross Bronx Expressway, including potential capping along certain portions of the highway. In late 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a $2 million grant to fund the study to reimagine the Cross Bronx to address disparate health outcomes for communities that were displaced or impacted by the creation … <Read More>
DOT Announces $7 Million in Upgrades to Quisqueya Plaza in Inwood
On February 27, 2023, the New York City Department of Transportation announced an investment of $7 million to bring capital upgrades to Quisqueya Plaza in Inwood. Located on Dyckman Street between Broadway and Seaman Avenue, the plaza was the first Open Street location to become a permanent plaza in 2021.
DOT Cuts Ribbon on New Pedestrian Plaza in Prospect Heights
On January 21, 2023, the Department of Transportation announced the completion of a new pedestrian plaza on Underhill Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Agency and elected officials joined community partners in celebrating the ribbon cutting for the new plaza, which includes an extension of Lowry Triangle into the roadway.