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MTA begins two-year-plus project to install elevators at Brooklyn Museum station
BY COLIN MIXSON
Contractors this month kicked off a
two-year-plus project to install elevators
and make other handicap-accessible
improvements to Prospect Heights’s
Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum
subway station.
Workers with the state-run Metropolitan
Transportation Authority on
Jan. 7 closed an entrance to the 2- and
3-train station on Eastern Parkway opposite
the Brooklyn Museum, ahead
of installing new stairs and railings
compliant with federal accessibility
laws as part of the 26-month makeover’s
fi rst phase, which is set to wrap
in September, according to Authority
spokesman Andrei Berman.
Contractors also cordoned off the
Prospect Heights–bound Eastern
Parkway Service Road between Washington
and Underhill avenues to use as
a staging area for construction, which
required the elimination of several
parking spots and narrowing the traffi
c lane on that block.
Department of Transportation documents
show the staging area is permitted
through March 21, but a worker
at the site on Jan. 9 said contractors
would obtain additional permits as
necessary to use the block beyond the
current expiration date.
The sudden arrival of construction
outfi ts came as a surprise to some locals
who live along that stretch of the
Service Road, however, one of whom ac-
Monumental
concerns
Locals: Green-Wood
dodging requests to
meet about statue
BY COLIN MIXSON
Green-Wood Cemetery leaders may be
backing out of their promise to consult
the community before installing
a statue of a polarizing doctor in the
burial ground, according to critics of
the sculpture, who said a graveyard
bigwig recently shot down their request
for a sitdown about the fate of the
monument to gynecologist J. Marion
Sims.
“My impression is that they’re not
interested in community input for
this,” said Kate Axelrod, the founder
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CLOSED FOR CONSTRUCTION: Workers shuttered an Eastern Parkway entrance to the station
to accommodate the renovations. Photo by Colin Mixson
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Father and son
Andy Napoles, left, and son Desmond receive almost daily visits from city social workers investigating complaints fi led against
the family after the 11-year-old drag queen’s December show at Williamsburg bar 3 Dollar Bill — but Napoles and his wife refuse to
let their critics bring them, or their boy, down. For more, see page 10. Photo by Caroline Ourso
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