Mayor Mamdani introduced Saturday he’s transferring ahead avenue security upgrades to a serious thoroughfare in Greenpoint that Eric Adams’ administration and former high Adams aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin labored to thwart.
The previously stalled avenue redesign on McGuinness Blvd. will embrace protected bike lanes in each instructions of journey on the thoroughfare, which has been among the many metropolis’s extra harmful stretches for pedestrians and cyclists.
Avenue security advocates have lengthy pushed for the highway to be revamped, however the plan hit roadblocks underneath Adams, who labored to reduce the venture. Lewis-Martin was charged final yr for her alleged position in working to water down the venture in change for bribes.
The stalled avenue redesign on McGuinness Boulevard will embrace protected bike lanes in each instructions of journey on the thoroughfare, which has been among the many extra harmful stretches for pedestrians and cyclists. (Michael Appleton / Mayoral Images Workplace)
“The city committed to a redesign of McGuinness Boulevard,” Mamdani mentioned. “That commitment promised to deliver the safety and improvements that residents had been asking for until the prior administration bowed to big money interests, leaving the project incomplete and Greenpointers still at risk. Today, however, there is a new mayor in City Hall.”
Every course of the boulevard will embrace one journey lane for motor automobiles, one parking-protected bike lane, and a vehicular parking and loading lane. The venture is ready to start as quickly because the climate warms up, Mamdani mentioned.
The transfer, which Mamdani mentioned on the marketing campaign path that he would do, comes after the Adams administration repeatedly watered down the venture. Former Mayor Adams’ high adviser Lewis-Martin is presently going through prices that she illegally accepted 1000’s in bribes and a brief look on the Hulu present “Godfather of Harlem” from the house owners of a Greenpoint-based movie manufacturing firm in change for working to chip away on the venture. Each the manufacturing firm house owners and Lewis-Martin have pleaded not responsible.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to press and group members at Father Studzinski Sq. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Rebecca White / New York Day by day Information)
Mamdani likewise pledged on the marketing campaign path to complete different initiatives that have been both diluted or canceled by the Adams administration regardless of being greenlit by the town Division of Transportation.
“I will just say, as someone who has been on the other side of DOT for many years, we actually mean this,” Mamdani mentioned to some laughter.
