Maisel Orders DOT To Replace Scores Of Damaged & Missing Street Signs

City Councilman Alan Maisel is calling on the Department of Transportation (DOT) to replace scores of damaged or missing street signs his office has identified in Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach.

In a letter sent last week to DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, the councilman wrote the lack of readable signage “presents a hazard to motorists and is an inconvenience to anyone looking for a particular address.”

Maisel said his office conducted a survey of the neighborhoods after receiving numerous complaints about deteriorating signs. His staffers located 66 intersections with street signs that were broken, faded, or missing. That list has been sent to the DOT.

Twenty five intersections had missing signs, the survey found. The councilman’s office also identified 43 signs that were so damaged that they are difficult to read.

At the intersection of Gerritsen Avenue and Channel Drive, a major thoroughfare, all three signs are in need of repair because they were bent, missing, or faded, Maisel discovered.

And along Avenue V, between Stuart Street and East 26th Street, Maisel’s survey found that two-thirds of the intersections lacked adequate signage.

Maisel concluded his letter by urging the DOT to order replacement signs as soon as possible.