{"id":245681,"date":"2026-05-27T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:23:39","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-construction-to-officially-begin-for-mcguiness-blvd-redesign-in-greenpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245681\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Construction To Officially Begin For Mcguiness Blvd Redesign In Greenpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York City Department of Transportation announced that construction on the McGuiness Boulevard redesign in Greenpoint officially started on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The project will implement parking-protected bike lanes from Meeker Avenue to the Pulaski Bridge. It&#8217;s an extension of the redesign already completed on the southern section of the boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 previously reported the project broke ground back in 2024 but was halted. Back in August, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/mayor-mamdani-promises-to-resume-the-redesign-of-mcguinness-boulevard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; Chief Advisor Ingrid Lewis\u2013Martin was indicted for allegedly accepting bribes to stop the project. <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For years, residents have raised safety concerns about the boulevard, with some crashes ending in tragedy. News 12 previously reported that <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/students-teachers-mourn-loss-of-p-s-110-teacher-killed-in-hit-and-run\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local teacher Matthew Jensen was killed in a hit-and-run back in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York City DOT says during the summer months there are about 4,000 riders along the corridor. NYC DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn says the goal is to improve safety.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;McGuiness Boulevard should stitch Greenpoint together, not divide it in half. These upgrades will make it safer and easier for parents and children to cross the street. It&#8217;ll protect cyclists, reduce reckless driving, and transform what can feel like a highway into a calmer neighborhood street,&#8221; said Flynn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYC DOT says the project is expected to finish around early Fall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Department of Transportation announced that construction on the McGuiness Boulevard redesign in Greenpoint officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-245681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245681","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=245681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}