{"id":261364,"date":"2026-06-10T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:48:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-gowanus-officials-push-to-ban-cars-on-carroll-street-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261364\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Gowanus Officials Push To Ban Cars On Carroll Street Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Multiple local officials are pushing for New York City to ban cars on the Carroll Street Bridge, which is set to reopen soon following repairs that started in 2021.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s [been] a huge inconvenience for a ton of us, because it is our direct route to Prospect Park,&#8221; said Drew DeGeer, who lives next to the bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bridge originally opened in 1889 and is an official city landmark.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CMShahanaHanif\/status\/2062273323933782381\" rel=\"nofollow\">City Council Member Shahana Hanif<\/a> and <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrooklynCB6\/status\/2062340204367695987\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brooklyn Community Board 6<\/a> have been among those calling on the Department of Transportation to allow only bikers and pedestrians on the bridge when it reopens.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve always supported increasing pedestrianization,&#8221; said Mike Racioppo, district manager of CB6, &#8220;and we&#8217;re seeing [the area] function without cars now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/infrastructure\/bridges.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City numbers <\/a>show that when the Carroll Street Bridge was open, it only averaged around 1,000 car crossings per day &#8211; the lowest number of any bridge operated by the DOT.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Still, with multiple high-rise apartment buildings sprouting up around the bridge, some neighbors say that the area could use another outlet for the increased volume of people and cars.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;All the streets on this side of the canal are one-way, so having a way to get out of this sort of four-block traffic that builds up every day would be great,&#8221; said David Friedman, who lives next to the bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Still, others said they had enjoyed what the five-year test-drive of life without cars had brought to the area, including a feeling of safety and a lack of noise.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;There are enough other street crossings, bridge crossings that are busy. It would be nice to have one that was just pedestrians and bikes,&#8221; said Gary Francis, a long-time resident of the area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">With an EMT ambulance station right near the bridge as well, several neighbors also expressed they would be fine with a compromise, where only emergency vehicles were allowed on it.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the DOT, which said it would have news on the bridge soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple local officials are pushing for New York City to ban cars on the Carroll Street Bridge, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-261364","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\/261364","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=261364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}