Comments on: What Does Southern Brooklyn Think About Bicycling?

By: Janice Dougherty

Janice Dougherty — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:18:16 +0000

If transportation cuts are going to end weekend service on the B31, then they better hurry to (1) finish the renovations to the Kings Highway Brighton station – including the elevator (2) add a secure outdoor bike parking area of some sort (3) connect the dots by extending the Gerritsen Avenue bike lane to the train station at E.16th Street. DUH!

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:30:30 +0000

“I’m a lifelong resident of Marine Park, other than 2 years living in Mill Basin. You have to understand that this is mostly low rise single family homes, most with on street free parking, along with car ports and driveways.It is in many ways almost suburban.”

We dismissed those places as viable locations to purchase a home back when the decision was made, because we wanted to live without a car, or with just one for weekend use when having kids, and didn’t want to take a bus to the subway, waiting two or three times as part of our commute.

But that’s before I started commuting by bicycle. With a bicycle parking facility, one could live as we do, and bike rather than walk to the subway. Even Gerritsen Beach would be in range.

By: Bugg

Bugg — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:00:25 +0000

I’m a lifelong resident of Marine Park, other than 2 years living in Mill Basin. You have to understand that this is mostly low rise single family homes, most with on street free parking, along with car ports and driveways.It is in many ways almost suburban. but that’s by necesssity.

Most people who take the subway have to take city bus to get there. And days like today remind us that when it comes to snow removal-critical if we’re talking about bikes-Bloomberg doens’t care about us. Unless, of course, it involves giving a certain group volunteer ambulance plates so they can run around like Dirty Harry at high speeds. And on the occasions when DOT does act, it mostly involves them not listening to the community at all-

http://www.gerritsenbeach.net/2009/11/21/new-intersection-destroys-community-deadlock-throughout-marine-park-and-gerritsen-beach/

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:49:55 +0000

I call the area of Brooklyn from Bay Ridge around to Canarsie the “southern rim” to distinguish it from the anarchic “South Brooklyn,” the part of Brooklyn that was south when Brooklyn was a city in just one part of Kings County and Flatbush was a village.

Anyway, the point is not whether majority would ride bicycles. The point is whether anyone would ride bicycles.

Let’s say ten percent would choose bicycles with a parking facility and bike lanes, and 90 percent would park and ride a motor vehicle or take the bus. Currently, that 10 percent is not being served, while the other 90 percent is.

I think a bike parking facility at Kings Highway on the Brighton Line (not an anarchic usage as far as I’m concerned), particularly if co-located with a health club, would be a big hit.

By: Chicken Underwear

Chicken Underwear — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:11:23 +0000

I grew up in southern Brooklyn (Sheepshead Bay) and now live in South Brooklyn (kinda, Park Slope). I am back in Sheepshead Bay often. These are two very different places.

By: Ben Fried

Ben Fried — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:07:46 +0000

Thanks for the usage note. I knew something seemed off.

By: kapes

kapes — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:05:20 +0000

I don’t know why I have to be such a stickler.
But it is such a common mistake I have to say something.

“South Brooklyn” is an area of Brooklyn close to downtown.
It is called this because it was south of the original (and quite small) city of Brooklyn. It includes Red Hook, Gowanus, Cobble Hill etc.
Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach etc. are in southern Brooklyn.

I feel so dirty.