Prospect Park Southwest Gets Repaved

Until this week, Prospect Park Southwest was a menace of a road: Jagged and potholed, it tested the shocks of even the sturdiest cars, and struck fear straight through the hearts of anyone foolhardy enough to face it on two wheels.

Luckily, the street is in the process of being repaved, the operative phrase being "in the process." Don't be fooled by the silky smooth surface as you shoot south from Bartel Pritchard Square: It won't last. The buttery pavement and your good spirits will both come to a rude finale midway between 10th and 11th avenues, which has been only milled, but as of Monday evening, not paved.

A sharp lip gives way to a sea of gravel, eliciting grimaces from the drivers of cars and small shrieks of terror from cyclists who hit the gravel-covered surface too fast. Conditions remain this way until the street's terminus at Park Circle.

Those heading north will enjoy the newly laid asphalt until just after 11th Avenue, at which point they will face the same jolt as those heading south.