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Seba Avenue Traffic Light up and Installed

By GerritsenBeach.net, on July 25th, 2011%

It was announced back in May, and now the Department of Transportation has just about finished installing a pedestrian signal at Gerritsen Avenue and Seba Avenue so that parents will have signal assistance in crossing Gerritsen to Seba Avenue Park.

The light will be a steady green for cars on Gerritsen, except when the push button is activated by pedestrians which will change the light so that people can cross Gerritsen safely.

Seba Park Construction – One Year Later

By GerritsenBeach.net, on June 7th, 2011%

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.

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Seba Avenue Park to Get Traffic Signal

By GerritsenBeach.net, on May 6th, 2011%

Yes you read that right folks! Seba Avenue Park is getting its own pedestrian traffic signal at Seba Avenue. This seems to be the month of Traffic Signals.

Councilman Fidlers Press release:

“I am pleased to announce that the meeting that I held with DOT Commissioner Jeanette Sadik Khan a few weeks ago at Seba Avenue has borne fruit: DOT will be installing a pedestrian signal at Gerritsen Avenue and Seba Avenue so that parents will have traffic signal assistance in crossing Gerritsen to the beautiful park that we have been building at Seba Avenue.

The light will be a steady green for cars on Gerritsen, except when the push button is activated by pedestrians which will change the light so that people can cross Gerritsen safely.

It has been my pleasure to secure funding so that Gerritsen Beach’s community park can be attractive and useful to parents and children in the community. Since many users will be taking small children to the tot lot and swings, not having a traffic light at the intersection seemed like an invitation to danger. I want to thank Commissioner Sadik Khan for coming, seeing with her own eyes, and doing the right thing.

I also want to extend thanks to Assemblyman Alan Maisel, Congressman Anthony Weiner and Senator Marty Golden for their support and assistance in getting this done. As always, a united community working for something that just makes good common sense is a great formula for getting things done.”

Parks Blocks GB Little League Path

By GerritsenBeach.net, on April 20th, 2011%

Despite promises from Councilman Fidler, the Parks department was indeed allowed to encroach on the Gerritsen Beach Little League, blocking their walkway.

Parks recently “completed” the walkway, gate, guardrail mess (above) blocking normal pedestrian, stroller, dog walking, traffic while giving ATV’s easy access.

It appears that it’s a parks department gate and not necessarily a community access gate. If that is true then we are going to need a parks department employee to unlock this gate whenever necessary.

None of this makes any sense, the area is now 100% closed all the time instead of 100% open all the time. There used to be a small opening all the time through the guardrail (maybe 3 feet) then a huge concrete block to block any ATV’s from driving in. Now it’s closed 100% of the time. But now we have a 10+ foot gate that will be open when parks feels like it.

No where in previous meetings was a new path discussed, suggested, nor was anything presented to the community.

Original Plans Showed no Path - Encroaching the Little League

Yes, Yes it was Replaced.

By GerritsenBeach.net, on April 15th, 2011%

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.

Guardrail Gone – Will it be Replaced?

By GerritsenBeach.net, on April 14th, 2011%

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.

Councilman Fidler Meets DOT Commissioner at Seba Park

By GerritsenBeach.net, on March 31st, 2011%

Councilman Lew Fidler joined DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn early this rainy morning so that he could show the Commissioner why a traffic signal is desperately needed at the site of the renovated park and playground. Seba Park has been restored from its state as a rubble strewn lot to include a skate park and tot lot. A comfort station is near completion and funding is in place for an expansion of the children’s play area to include equipment for the somewhat older siblings of the children expected to use the tot lot.

“I wanted the Commissioner to understand that we are inviting parents to cross Gerritsen Avenue from their homes, pushing a stroller with one hand and holding the hand of an 8 year old in the other, with no cross walk and no traffic light. Nine years ago, before we invested in our neighborhood park and there was literally nothing here, there was no need for a traffic light. Now there is, and it is not about car traffic, it is about pedestrian safety. Having a light that is steady
green, but can be changed by a pedestrian waiting to cross by pushing a button is just what we need.”, said Councilman Fidler.

“I want to thank the Commissioner for coming down and looking for herself. We’ve been writing and writing and been getting the stuffy old traffic study answers. There is no substitute for seeing,” added Fidler.

The Commissioner promised a prompt answer to the request. “The Commissioner said she has young children herself so she clearly gets it” noted Fidler. “I am guardedly optimistic.”

Renovations to Seba Park were funded in Phase I by joint allocations from Councilman Fidler, then Assemblyman Frank Seddio, Senator Marty Golden and Boro President Markowitz. Subsequent funding for the tot lot, comfort station and playground expansion has been obtained by Councilman Fidler, Assemblyman Maisel and Boro President Markowitz.