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Fourth Avenue To Become "Brooklyn Boulevard"?
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Jaya Saxena
Published May 17, 2010
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Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn will possibly be getting a major makeover sometime soon. Instead of the perpetually trafficked and dreary scenery, the six-mile stretch would be transformed into "a premier livable street" called Brooklyn Boulevard. Catchy, right? Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz enlisted students from NYU Wagner to contribute ideas to the project, and they produced these renderings of a future Fourth Avenue paradise, bringing Markowitz's dream of a "bleak stretch of road transformed into something reminiscent of the beautiful, tree-lined portion of Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side" one step closer.
The new Boulevard proposal includes suggestions for "traffic-calming measures, streetscaping, placemaking and wayfinding improvements" to go with those new trees, though no timeline has been set as to if or when construction would start. So, could the "21st Century Street" be a reality soon, or will all those beautiful streets just have to stay on the Upper East Side?
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