Barricade Burglar? Battle Brewing Over ‘Open Streets' Program in Brooklyn
Myles Miller
What to Know
For 12 hours a day a section of Driggs Avenue at Russell Street is supposed to be closed to through traffic as part of the city's Open Streets program -- but the barricades have disappeared.
A video from a neighbor captured a man in a truck with an Amazon logo taking the barricades and driving off.
The barricades stolen were part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Open Streets program -- an initiative developed at the height of the pandemic to create more open space adjacent to parks which were being flooded with people eager to get out of their apartments.