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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that the city Transporation Department will install a separate bike entrance on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Friday, March 27, 2026.<\/p>\n
Credit: Ed Reed\/Mayoral Photography Office.<\/p>\n
The city Department of Transportation (DOT)<\/a> will redesign the Manhattan-side entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, separating the way that pedestrians and bicycles access the historic crossing, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday.<\/p>\n Hizzoner, during a March 27 news conference at Manhattan\u2019s Pier 17, said the project aims to clear up a \u201cchaotic bottleneck\u201d where pedestrians and cyclists jockey over the same space to enter the bridge. It is yet another street improvement project ahead of this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup; the undertaking will break ground in April and be ready in June before the FIFA World Cup final, which is taking place across the Hudson River in New Jersey.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an opportunity to rectify something that should have been done a long time ago, and also to have a lasting impact that will extend beyond the World Cup final,\u201d Mamdani said.\n<\/p>\n The effort was first floated by former Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration<\/a> in 2024. However, Mamdani\u2019s predecessor never actually moved forward with the redesign.<\/p>\n It comes after the city built a two-way protected bike lane along the Brooklyn Bridge\u2019s Manhattan-bound roadway in 2021 \u2014 separating cyclists from the walking path they had previously shared with pedestrians. The change nearly doubled daily bike ridership<\/a> on the bridge from 2,652 in 2021 to 5,625 last year, according to DOT.<\/p>\n \u201cBut today, the Manhattan approach is crowded, confusing, and forces pedestrians and cyclists to compete for space,\u201d DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said during the press event.\n<\/p>\n \u201cSo we\u2019re redesigning it pronto,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re giving pedestrians and cyclists each the space they need, creating a safer, more comfortable approach for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n The project will see a new two-way bike lane installed along Centre Street between Chambers Street and the Brooklyn Bridge entrance. It will merge into the existing bike lane to and from the bridge. The plan also includes widening the Centre Street crosswalk between the bridge\u2019s pedestrian entrance and City Hall Park.<\/p>\n Ben Furnas, executive director of the group Transportation Alternatives, lauded the project as a \u201cgreat example of how building a high-quality bike network can make New York City a world-class bicycle city.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani said his administration is using the upcoming competition as a catalyst for executing transportation infrastructure projects that will be ready for millions of revelers flooding into the city and serve as permanent improvements beyond the festivities.<\/p>\n Last week, the DOT revealed that it will redesign<\/a> several blocks of Manhattan\u2019s Ninth Avenue around the Lincoln Tunnel and the Port Authority Bus Terminal to boost pedestrian and cyclist space along the corridor. On Wednesday, the agency rolled out a plan for more bike lanes throughout Lower Manhattan<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile we don\u2019t have the luxury of time before the World Cup, we still do have at least a few months,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cSo we\u2019re looking to make these kinds of investments and also\u2026looking to make the kinds of changes to ensure that transit continues to be reliable and also meets the needs of fans who are going to be coming here.\u201d<\/p>\n The change is also the latest of several paused Adams-era street redesign projects that Mamdani has restarted. Others include a project to build new bus lanes on the Bronx\u2019s Fordham Road<\/a> and to install bike lanes along a stretch of Brooklyn\u2019s McGuinness Boulevard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that the city Transporation Department will install a separate bike entrance on the Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[33303,27810,98,100,99,34558,6157,22925,41779,9,24,63,21992],"class_list":["post-177427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-ben-furnas","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-department-of-transporation","tag-dot","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-mike-flynn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-transportation-alternatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed-2.jpg\" "\\"Mamdani's")
A rendering of the new two-way bike lane DOT plans to install on the Manhattan entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge.Image Courtesy of DOT<\/p>\n