{"id":308042,"date":"2026-07-28T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:40:47","slug":"proposed-green-wood-green-way-gets-4m-in-city-council-funding-for-outreach-design-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308042\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed \u2018Green-Wood Green-Way\u2019 gets $4M in City Council funding for outreach, design \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green-Wood Cemetery has received $4 million in City Council funding to support the development of its proposed greenway project.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The cash, secured by the Council\u2019s Brooklyn delegation, will fund community outreach and design for the \u201cGreen-Wood Green-Way,\u201d which would bring broader sidewalks, a two-way protected bike lane and more to a neglected 1.5-mile stretch of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 36th and 37th streets along the cemetery\u2019s southern border, according to graveyard officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Currently, those streets are unsafe and inhospitable to cyclists and pedestrians, they said. The area is a hotspot for illegal dumping, sidewalks are few and damaged and the roadway is packed with illegally-parked trucks and RVs.<\/p>\n

\"37thA portion of 37th Street, home of the would-be Green-Way, which is plagued with illegal dumping and parking. Photo courtesy of Google Maps<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too many lifetimes the Sunset Park community has been bordered by a mile-and-a-half of no man\u2019s land and a critical transportation connector has laid fallow,\u201d said Green-Wood <\/a>president Meera Joshi, in a statement. \u201cThe wait is over, the Green-Wood Green-Way and new entrance will turn this neglected public space into a neighborhood destination and provide easy access to Green-Wood\u2019s 478 acres.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nascent project still has a long way to go. At a Community Board 7 meeting<\/a> in April, Joshi said there are \u201clots of logistics\u201d to work out. The Department of Transportation is \u201cin the very early stages of discussing a potential project with Green-Wood,\u201d a spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For now, it\u2019s not clear how Green-Wood and the city will partner on the newly-funded community engagement.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, we are awaiting more information from the City on how we can partner for community engagement,\u201d said Green-Wood spox Stacy Locke. \u201cIn the meantime, we will continue leading tours of the Green-Way corridor with local groups and hosting community orgs to gather their vision for the project and determine how it can meet the needs of local neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n

The basic \u201cvision\u201d for the Green-Way was shaped by conversations with local groups like UPROSE, Bike South Brooklyn and Community Board 7, per Green-Wood, and the project would include new lighting, planters, seating and public art.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Green-Wood serves as a de-facto public park, but is hard to access from the southern end. File photo by Maike Schulz<\/p>\n

It would also include a new cemetery entrance at 9th Avenue and 37th Street, beside the historic Freedom Lots \u2014 the largest undisturbed burial ground for Black Americans in New York State. Green-Wood doesn\u2019t have an entrance on its southernmost edge, and residents who live in the area have to schlep to Fourth Avenue or Fort Hamilton Parkway to access the green space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate the community\u2019s support for improving safety and accessibility along the perimeter of Greenwood Cemetery, a popular cycling and pedestrian corridor and a major neighborhood asset,\u201d said DOT spokesperson Mona Bruno. \u201cNYC DOT looks forward to continuing to explore safety upgrades and accessibility improvements for all at this location.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the past five years, there have been a total of 97 crashes along Fort Hamilton Parkway, 36th Street and 37th Street, according to Streetsblog<\/a>. Those crashes resulted in 128 injuries and three deaths, including the 2022 killing<\/a> of Eric Salitsky by a garbage truck driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis investment reflects what Sunset Park residents have been asking for, an end to illegal dumping and unsafe streets, and the strengthening of a connection between our neighborhood and this incredible green space,\u201d said Council Member Alexa Avil\u00e9s. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to my colleagues for standing with this community.\u201d<\/p>\n

A timeline for the project is not yet clear. At the April CB7 meeting, Joshi <\/a>\u2014 who served as a Deputy Mayor for Operations during the Adams administration \u2014 said she would love to see the funding used within Fiscal Year 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"meeraGreen-Wood president Meera Joshi. File photo courtesy of Ed Reed\/Mayoral Photography Office<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally we\u2019d like to have a little more control, and see if the city would let us contract out for some of the design and community engagement, instead of the city agency, because I believe we could probably do that process faster,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cBut it\u2019s gonna be up to the administration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Green-Wood has estimated that the full project will cost $15 million, excluding the cost of the new entrance. The hope, Locke said, is that the city will cover the expenses. Green-Wood would shoulder the cost of the new entrance and pitch in on long-term maintenance of the greenway\u2019s planters and greenery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Council\u2019s former Sanitation Chair, I know what illegal dumping does to a neighborhood. As Transportation Chair, I know what a missing bike lane does to a delivery worker\u2019s safety,\u201d said Council Member Shaun Abreu. \u201cThis funding addresses both, turning a corridor plagued by dumping and unsafe traffic conditions into a physically protected connection between Sunset Park and Green-Wood. I\u2019ll make sure the final design lives up to what this community has been asking for.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green-Wood Cemetery has received $4 million in City Council funding to support the development of its proposed greenway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[584,13930,98,100,99,53920,301,71573,63567,4325,5459,3242,2969,116582,1154,116583,101795,29323,89620,5865,79508,116584,9,24,12,370,63,116585,87,42937,1986,22744,21989,4304],"class_list":["post-308042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alexa-aviles","tag-bike-lanes","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cemetery","tag-city-council","tag-city-council-funding","tag-community-board-7","tag-crashes","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-environment","tag-funding","tag-graveyard","tag-green-wood-cemetery","tag-green-wood-green-way","tag-greenway","tag-illegal-dumping","tag-illegal-parking","tag-infrastructure","tag-meera-joshi","tag-mona-bruno","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-pedestrian-boulevard","tag-politics","tag-redesign","tag-safety","tag-shaun-abreu","tag-street-safety","tag-trash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308042","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=308042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}