Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to transform Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza by advancing a plan to eliminate car traffic between the entrance to Prospect Park and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch across from it, his office announced on Monday.
Under the proposal, the road to the arch’s south side, which currently connects Union Street to the west with Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue to the east, would be turned into a pedestrian plaza. Grand Army would no longer be a traffic circle, with vehicles instead having to travel around the arch’s northern side in order to get from east to west and vice versa.
