Mamdani admin finishes once-stalled Brooklyn roadway redesign 5 years after teacher’s death that sparked safety campaign

A little over five years after a public school teacher named Matthew Jensen was mowed down on Brooklyn's McGuinness Boulevard, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday that his administration has finished a safety redesign of the road intended to prevent such deaths from ever happening there again. The mayor stood with city officials, lawmakers, and advocates, who have long fought to make the Greenpoint thoroughfare safer, as they cut the ribbon Nov. 13 on the completed project. "Today, we announce the completion of the full redesign of the McGuinness Boulevard," Mamdani said during the ceremony underneath the Pulaski Bridge, which links McGuinness Boulevard with 11th Street in Long Island City. "The culmination of so many years of hard work and advocacy, of lonely marches and doors slammed shut, of neighbors mourned and terrifying sprints across the road, and above all, the hope that change would one day come." The event marked Mamdani making good on his Jan.

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