The city under Mayor Mamdani will install protected bike lanes and shorten pedestrian crossings on Brooklyn’s deadly Third Avenue — advancing one of the last remaining street-safety projects stalled by former Mayor Eric Adams, City Hall announced on Wednesday.
The Department of Transportation plans to cut down the six-lane thoroughfare to four moving lanes for cars beginning next year. That will make room for the cycling and walking upgrades on a roadway where motorists have killed 17 people over the last decade — including several in the nearly three years since Adams stonewalled the effort.
“Seventeen people have lost their lives along this corridor in a decade,” Mayor Mamdani said in a statement. “That cannot continue. Starting next year, we will transform Third Avenue to protect pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.”…