Traffic & Transit
Tell The City What To Do With 'Open Streets' In Prospect Heights
The Department of Transportation is surveying New Yorkers about its Open Streets program, and how they should be used in the future.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A new survey will let New Yorkers tell the city how they should use Open Streets in Prospect Heights in the future.
The city's Department of Transportation is gathering feedback about its Open Streets and Open Streets: Restaurant program, which closed various streets to cars and let restaurants set up tables in the roadway during the coronavirus crisis.
One of the surveys focuses on Prospect Heights' two open streets on Underhill and Vanderbilt avenues.
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"NYC DOT is conducting a community survey to better understand how Open Streets in Prospect Heights are used, and how the community wants to see these corridors used in the future," the department writes.
Vanderbilt Avenue — which closed to cars on the weekends starting in August — became a popular outdoor dining destination before closing for the season the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Organizers hope to bring it back this year.
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Underhill Avenue was closed to cars to allow pedestrians and cyclists more room to social distance.
Find the survey link below:
NYC DOT wants your feedback on the Prospect Heights Open Streets. Let us know how you use the Underhill Ave Open Streets & Vanderbilt Ave Open Streets: Restaurants in #Brooklyn and how you'd like to see them used in the future. Share your feedback: https://t.co/YMn4MA1AYm pic.twitter.com/uKOfKvJbAM
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) February 24, 2021
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