Brooklyn Height Association to DOT on BQE: Fix Cantilever vibes
The Brooklyn Heights Association has launched a campaign calling on the city Department of Transportation to make urgently needed repairs on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway to stop the shake, rattle and roll that nearby residents are suffering.
Vibrations from trucks on the cantilevered BQE have worsened in the past year – and could be lessened by milling the roadway and replacing concrete and asphalt, the neighborhood advocacy group said in a letter to DOT Borough Commissioner Joseph Palmieri.
This type of repair – which was helpful in the past – hasn’t been done in 12 years, according to the letter signed by BHA President Alexandra Bowie and Executive Director Judy Stanton.
“Residents who live close to the BQE are jolted out of their beds throughout the night and early morning. Dishes clatter. Cracks appear on interior walls,” they wrote. “What were once rumbles and tremors are now shocks and jolts. No wonder people fear for the stability of their homes and for their own safety.”