Crossing at Gerritsen and Seba Avenues is expected to be safer beginning today.
The new traffic signal at the intersection is operating as of today and although it might depend on who you ask, the parents I ran into are happy with the signal. They were tired of having to “run for their lives”.
Flashing Red - Stop Sign - at Seba into Gerritsen
The whole process took only about six months from start to finish.
There may be some unforeseen issues with this signal also, who knows. What do you think about the light?
Several changes have happened to Gerritsen Avenue over the past few years:
Reduced from four lanes to two.
A 25 mph speed limit, reduced from 30.
Advanced warning signals at PS 277
A 20 mph school zone
Northbound Gerritsen Avenue now features left-turn lanes onto every intersection.
Flashing Yellow for North and South bound Gerritsen Avenue
The Seba Avenue traffic signal is about complete as the signals and cross walk signals are up. The installation of the signal hopes to help parents cross the street safely.
A little more than one year ago the Seba Avenue Comfort Station construction began. When it is complete we will have: a comfort station, a whole sprinkler are, 16 swings, a extended play area, and a push button crosswalk.
As of today, the comfort station is basically complete a path has been paved, and decorative plants have been installed.
Soon enough the swings will be installed, and more work will start to add the sprinklers and extended the play area.
Well, as it turns out the guardrail was replaced. No access gate yet but replaced nonetheless.
Note:
The guard rail was not removed and replaced within a day as the posting date suggests. The guardrail was removed almost two weeks ago and it was suggested at a meeting that there was no timetable for a replacement.
The Seba Avenue Comfort Station path is well under way and if you have not noticed the contractors recently removed a substantial length of the guardrail and a community access gate. According to Senator Goldens Town Hall, Parks does not know when the guardrail or the community access gate will be replaced.
This is concerning as it could cause many new problems and rehash many old problems with Cars, Quads, Dirtbikes, Etc as there is nothing to anything or any one from doing anything malicious back there.
As of today it seems like all construction at the Seba Avenue Park Comfort Station has stalled. At least we can see the what side the restrooms will be on.
Seba Avenue Skate Park is expanding again.Parks recently held a meeting at Councilman Lew Fidlers office with George Broadhead of the Property Owners and John Douglas of GBCares. They were invited to see the new plans and offer their input.
We will be getting a new general asphalt field on the right side of the park more toward Lois. The new asphalt MAY end up being used for roller hockey WITH nets. That’s a huge maybe right now. This won’t be started until Spring of 2012.
Here is where we are now.
Right now as we speak – a Parks contractor is building the comfort station. Then after that is completed Parks is going to expanded the Tot Lot with sprinklers. This is nothing new.
As for the existing Asphalt which is the middle ground for the Skate Park and Tot lot – that will be replaced with swings: 8 Child 8 Young 1 Handicap. Project completion date: Fall of 2012
GerritsenBeach.net Epic Time-line
September 2006 – Construction Begins
October 2006 Groundbreaking Ceremony
June 2007 - Equipment Installed
July 2007 - Skate Park Being used by Kids
August 2007 - Park fences repaired
November 2007 - Seba Park Open
February 2008 - 12 Trees snapped. One Bench removed.
March 2008 - Comfort Station Announced
June 2008 - Trees replaced
July 2008 - Seba Avenue Park covered in graffiti.
August 2008 - graffiti cleaned up.
February 2009 - Drug problem at park peaks.
February 2009 - NYPD narcotics crack down.
March 2009 - Fire Destroys part of park
April 2009 - Repairs started
October 2009 - Sprinklers announced
December 2009 - 20 Benches stolen
December 2009 - Benches found. Newspapers call it biased incident.
January 2010 - Plans for phase II shown Swings announced.
February 2010 - Crackdown on vandalism. Fidler pushes for arrests.
March 2010 - Benches repaired or reinstalled.
May 2010 - Comfort Station construction begins
July 2010 - “Gun” used by outside kids to intimidate locals. Was a BB Gun
September 2010 - New Asphalt Expansion announced. Swings replaned.
The almighty we call The Google has updated their satellite imagery for our area. These photos were only taken within a few weeks – do you notice the construction fence for the comfort area?
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