A corruption indictment unveiled by Manhattan prosecutors Thursday alleges what safe street advocates have long suspected: that a behind-the-scenes pay-to-play scheme involving an influential Greenpoint family and Mayor Eric Adams’ most powerful aide wrecked improvements to the neighborhood’s deadliest street.
Now, two years since the city’s Department of Transportation watered down its own plan for the Brooklyn roadway, activists with Make McGuinness Safe, which was founded after beloved elementary school teacher Matthew Jensen was fatally run over, are reviving their push for redesigning McGuinness Boulevard.
“We are appalled to see in black and white the pay-to-play dealings that blocked the promised safety redesign for a community that has demanded it for decades,” the group wrote in a statement. “Because of the interference of Eric Adams, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, and the Argento family, half of McGuinness Boulevard remains dangerous and confusing.”…