MTA promised $3M for 4th Ave station improvements

Metropolitan Transportation Authority received a promise of nearly $3 million of funding made by two local elected officials that will allow for additional capital improvement work at the 4th Avenue F and G station in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. The work will be done in conjunction with the component work being performed at the station and the Culver Line Viaduct rehabilitation project which is already underway. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has agreed to contribute $2 million for funding the additional capital work focusing on station improvements along 4th Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets. Additionally, MTA New York City Transit has secured $800,000 from Assembly Member Joan Millman for the project. This will fund additional work at the 78 year-old station. When the project is completed, customers will benefit from the replacement of platform edges, canopies, drains, lighting, the historic arch over 4th Avenue, including the glass, glass framing system, painting and removal of billboards. The project also includes replacement of the roof, brick masonry and platform windows, the repair and restoration of exterior tower stone and brickwork, repair and painting of the viaduct underside over 4th Avenue, and replacement of lighting beneath the viaduct over 4th Avenue and the sidewalks, which would double the existing illumination. All four entrance globes (4th Avenue and 10th Street), all entrance doors (4th Avenue and 10th Street) and all storefront windows (4th Avenue and 10th Street) will be replaced in preparation for new retail tenants by 2012. The arch windows will be restored and opened and we are in the process of performing the necessary work to reopen the east side station house of the 4th Avenue station. This unstaffed area is scheduled to be re-opened by the end of 2011.