Public Space

02/28/2023 - 10:50

The Brooklyn Bridge Park just to the North of this area is a master class in how to reshape urban areas to improve the quality of life for the people living in them – we love it so much and use it daily. We'd LOVE to see that project and vision extend further south to the sparsely used container port below it – the private-public partnership model has fully enriched the local area and economy, and my understanding is that these types of port operations don't work economically at the scale of this one anyways.

Public Space

02/28/2023 - 10:46

The Cobble Hill trench has become a sink hole of pollution, both air and noise, that contaminates the whole neighborhood around it and makes an otherwise extremely pedestrian-friendly area dangerous with reckless drivers attempting fast detours through the neighborhood. Covering it with a shared green space and pedestrian bridge like Boston and San Francisco before us would move Brooklyn solidly into the future, create a more habitable neighborhood, and open up space for transportation of the future, like the wildly popular pedestrian and bike paths on Columbia.

Driving

02/28/2023 - 10:41

This is such a dangerous, confusing area both while driving in a car and trying to exit into the neighborhood or get onto the highway from the neighborhood, or walking. I'd love to see it more thoughyfully designed for the people who live here.

Public Space

02/28/2023 - 09:53

Cover over the Cobble Hill Trench and provide green space. This will greatly reduce traffic noise for us residents as well as be able to channel/scrub car exhaust via a series of exhaust stacks that would funnel the pollutants higher up in the air. Currently, pollutants rise up from the trench and is breathed by pedestrians and residents.

Other

02/28/2023 - 09:17

I live onTiffany Place and face the BQE. The vibrations are excessive. I have to put pads behind the mirrors and artwork on the walls so that they don’t make any sounds from the tapping/banging against the wall – and if I am sitting on my couch or laying in bed in the evening after work, it feels like small earthquakes. What can be done to help this?!

Pedestrian

02/27/2023 - 13:14

This has become an extremely congested and dangerous intersection. The narrowing of the BQE at Atlantic has made Hicks St into an extra lane of the highway that is almost constantly congested with angry drivers who run red lights in traffic or speed in the rare moments the street is not backed up for blocks. What makes this truly abhorrent is that a public school is located one block east and children are exposed to the danger every day.

Driving

02/27/2023 - 12:24

This intersection is a disaster for everyone in every direction. Here's an idea: Since everybody uses GPS, you should approach the map-makers (Google, Apple, Garmin) to have them de-prioritize our local streets when presenting options to drivers.

Pedestrian

02/27/2023 - 11:44

very dangerous intersection for pedestrians.

Driving

02/27/2023 - 11:42

very dangerous intersection for people crossing from the north to the south of the BQE. The cross walk light is go when the lights to turn left are green. Many close and dangerous encounters of cars and pedestrians.

Other

02/27/2023 - 11:40

Illegal dumping and truck parking in this area.