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A corruption indictment unveiled by Manhattan prosecutors Thursday alleges what safe street advocates have long suspected: that a behind-the-scenes pay-to-play scheme involving an influential Greenpoint family and Mayor Eric Adams’ most powerful aide wrecked improvements to the neighborhood’s deadliest street.

Now, two years since the city’s Department of Transportation watered down its own plan for the Brooklyn roadway, activists with Make M

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