A massive rehab of the Brooklyn Bridge will begin Aug. 23, keeping Manhattan-bound lanes closed most nights until 2014.
Manhattan-bound lanes will close Monday through Friday from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., Saturdays from 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m. and Sundays from 12:01 a.m. to 9 a.m., according to the city’s Department of Transportation.
Brooklyn-bound lanes and pedestrian paths will stay open during construction. Cars leaving Brooklyn will be directed to the Manhattan Bridge.
The $508 million job will double the capacity of two clogged ramps, replace rotting pavement and repaint steel to prevent corrosion.
The rehab will cost the city $286 million, officials said. The remaining funds will come from the federal government, including $30 million from the stimulus bill.
The project will employ hundreds of New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said, and marks the first major construction on the bridge in a decade.
(New York Daily News)
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If you go at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Brooklyn side, there’s a beautiful cafe; walkway; protected of course; the most wonderful picturesque scene; and it’s open till the WEE hours of the morning. Many a chabad shidduch couple have good memories of that, and then of course heading over to Flatbush Pizza. YA Man.