Chatham Square plan delayed again

A planned reconfiguration and renovation of Chinatown’s Chatham Square has been put on hold once again, this time for two years, according to a city Department of Transportation official. The widely unpopular $50 million project, which would connect East Broadway to Worth Street and Bowery Street to St. James Place in the current seven-way intersection, has reportedly been halted due to imminent Brooklyn Bridge construction. Luis Sanchez, DOT’s Lower Manhattan borough commissioner, said that the confluence of those two projects would create an untenable traffic morass. While Susan Stetzer, district manager of Community Board 3, maintains that the DOT won’t back off its plan for Chatham Square, community activists said they hope this delay will give more time for community input on the plan.

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