BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 5, 2017 7
Revamped Bay Ridge Avenue station
to reopen October 13, say officials
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
MMCGOLDRICK@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
On track for the six-month mark,
the newly remodeled Bay
Ridge Avenue subway station
– shuttered since April 29 – is set to
reopen Friday, October 13, according
to a senior MTA official.
The revamped station will feature
enhanced lighting throughout, as
well as improved signage to make it
easier for straphangers to navigate
their stops. It will also include at least
one countdown clock, improved cell
service, USB charging stations, new
art and a real-time navigation system.
When the station closed earlier this
year, it left just three points of access to
the R train in Bay Ridge — 95th Street,
86th Street and 77th Street — as well as
an 18-block gap between neighboring
stops.
The good news for Bay Ridge was
first broken to local residents by City
Council candidate and aid to State
Senator Marty Golden, John Quaglione,
who greeted straphangers at the
77th Street station Monday morning
to spread the word.
Quaglione – who, amidst the
news is calling on the Department of
Sanitation to suspend alternate side
parking regulations to accommodate
local residents for the remaining
few weeks of construction – said his
source was none other than MTA
Chairperson Joe Lhota.
His opponent in the race for the
43rd District seat, Justin Brannan, followed
suit, announcing on Facebook
that, in response to a recent letter he
had penned to Lhota about the need
for quality service over cosmetic improvements
to the city’s subways, he’d
received the same good news.
The station was one of three in
southern Brooklyn to close this year as
part of a 31-stop overhaul announced
by Governor Andrew Cuomo last summer,
alongside Prospect Avenue and
53rd Street – the latter fresh off its own
grand reopening, which was met with
both positive and negative reviews.
“It’s gorgeous,” said one rider, whose
favorite new feature was the charging
stations. However, a number of riders
expressed concerns about there still
not being an elevator, as well as about
new, leaning benches that might not be
so accommodating for older residents.
There is no word yet when Prospect
Avenue – the last of the trio to close –
will reopen.
BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/file photo
The Bay Ridge Avenue station will reportedly reopen on Friday,
October 13.
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