Queens-to-Greenpoint Bike Lanes Will Open This Spring, City Says

Pictured: The planned two-lane bike path over the Pulaski Bridge. Image via the Department of Transportation

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — The city’s 2016 bike map is now available for download!

And, more importantly for Greenpoint, the map includes a new two-way protected bike lane over the Pulaski Bridge that's set to open this spring, weather permitting, according to the Department of Transportation. The bridge runs over Newtown Creek, connecting Long Island City in Queens to upper Greenpoint.

The debut of that project has already been pushed back several months, as Brokelyn reported.

Construction on Brooklyn's other big bike project, much further south — the Marine Park Connector in Jamaica Bay, which will link Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U — will begin this summer, also weather permitting, according to the DOT. (A DOT spokeswoman could not immediately provide the project's projected completion date.)

Various other borough bike paths are currently in the planning stage, such as a protected lane on a busy stretch of Jay Street. That project was recently mulled over by skeptical members of Brooklyn's Community Board 2.