The city will spend $8 million on the new entrance, with another $3 million coming from federal funding. The project also involves tearing down the 60-year-old West Eighth Street bridge over Surf Avenue, which connects the subway to the beachfront. Officials with the NYC Economic Development Corp. presented the plan yesterday at a Community Board meeting, and spokesman Kyle Sklerov told those in attendance the footbridge would have cost millions of dollars to rehabilitate and is too expensive to maintain.
Unlike the controversial plastic-and-concretewalk, the Community Board is expected to approve the project, which the Post reports will feature a 75-foot-wide entrance "filled with many plantings, bike racks and seating. It will be covered in a smooth blue pavement comprised of a heat-resistant material made from recycled glass and cement." It's safe to assume that recycled glass will all locally sourced from Cristal champagne bottles, hand-shattered by artisanal glass foragers.
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