Archive for Brooklyn

June 2008

6/27: Bedford Avenue to Go Car-Free Four Saturdays This Summer 11

6/26: Ikea Tests Bike-Share in Denmark. Why Not NYC? 17

6/25: Eyes on the Street: Ikea Shuttles Tearing Through Brooklyn 'Hoods 47

6/12: Eyes on the Street: Dekalb Bike Lane Used for NYPD Parking 23

May 2008

5/27: Streetfilms: Tour de Brooklyn 2008 2

5/21: Do Alternate Side Parking Rules Increase Traffic Congestion? 29

5/16: Streetfilm: Ladies' Repair Night 8

5/14: Pricing Foe Hakeem Jeffries Demands G Train Service Increase 4

5/07: Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots? 0

5/02: Can Red Hook Become NYC's Most Bike-Friendly Neighborhood? 16

April 2008

4/28: Survey Finds New Yorkers Anxious About Congestion and Safety 13

March 2008

3/20: Demo Today Against Park-Hogging Judges 7

3/11: Temporary Chicanes Calm Mr. Eckerson's Neighborhood 9

February 2008

2/29: Hakeem Jeffries Stands With Westchester on Congestion Pricing 30

2/28: Flatbush and Atlantic: Hellacious, Deadly, Likely to Get Worse 28

2/22: Let's Chop Up Superblocks 21

2/20: Ideas Competition for Brooklyn's Grandest Plaza 17

2/05: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow 1

January 2008

1/16: Illegal Parking Now "Legal" for Marty Markowitz 15

1/08: What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza? 1

December 2007

12/21: Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Comes to Life 6

12/13: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas? 8

12/11: New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious" 16

12/04: One Intersection, Two Injured Pedestrians, One Summons 0

November 2007

11/19: StreetFilms: Bay Ridge Bus Commuters Talk Congestion Pricing 18

11/12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12

11/07: Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge 71

11/02: Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo 18

October 2007

10/30: Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance 1

10/29: Correcting Thursday's MTA Bike Seizure Correction 5

10/25: MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules. 23

10/25: DOT Installs 58 Muni-Meters in Bensonhurst 7

10/16: Park Slope Has Its Park(ing) Day 6

10/15: Idle Hands 27

10/08: Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts 5

10/04: GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship 0

10/02: DOT Minds the GAP 9

September 2007

9/25: Cars Burned in Brooklyn 1

9/21: Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom 4

9/18: Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes 6

9/17: More Bike Lanes for Brooklyn CB 1 14

9/04: Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child's Death 0

August 2007

8/31: City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening 13

8/29: Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled 5

8/28: Celebrating a Car-Free Afternoon In Prospect Park 12

8/22: Bikes Are Traffic, Too 17

8/22: Breaking Carnage: Driver on Sidewalk at Court and Degraw 17

8/21: Car-Free Hours Extended in Prospect Park 43

8/20: Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn 28

8/15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room" 5

8/15: Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit! 33

8/14: The Cars That Ate New York 0

8/13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3

8/13: What Up, G? 1

8/10: City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park 21

8/09: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1

8/07: Hello, Dolly! 45

8/03: Manhattan Bridge Bikeway to Reopen on Monday 12

July 2007

7/26: Smith Street Zombie Invasion? 3

7/21: Brooklyn Critical Mass: Feel the Love 9

7/20: Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn 5

7/13: StreetFilm: Trading Car Parking for Bike Racks 0

7/12: New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn 34

7/12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26

7/10: Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing 1

7/09: It's Getting Better All the Time 1

7/05: Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes 19

June 2007

6/29: "Triboro RX" Could Provide More Transit Opportunities 20

6/29: Eyes on the Street: No Bike Amenities for Mermaids 6

6/28: Breaking News: 94th Precinct Clipping Bikes on Bedford Ave 25

6/28: Express F Rally Today, with Council Members 2

6/26: 94th Precinct to Cyclists: Obey Traffic Rules 60

6/25: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday 1

6/22: Blogger Launches Petititon to Revive Dormant Subway Tracks 13

6/18: A Livable Streets Exhibition Opens in Brooklyn 1

6/14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan 0

6/13: Forever Double-Parked on Google's Memory Lane 0

6/12: New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking! 0

6/11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1

6/08: Cyclists Be Warned: New City Bike Racks May Not be Secure 24

6/08: Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg 2

6/04: StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn 2

6/04: Joe Lentol is Worried About Congestion Pricing Park-and-Riders 0

6/04: Tour de Brooklyn: City is Considering Car-Free Central Park Trial 5

6/01: Hit by a Car? Nothing Can be Done Unless You're Hurt. 15

May 2007

5/31: Armoring Up on the Streets of New York 34

5/29: David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing 12

5/23: In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza 2

5/23: Congestion Pricing: Joan Millman is Not Convinced 29

5/22: To Some it's a Park, to Others, a Parking Lot 27

5/21: Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Street Fair 0

5/18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12

5/17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2

5/17: Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps 9

5/16: Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street 5

5/11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4

5/10: Where Do New York City Bike Commuters Come From? 15

5/09: Eyes on the Street: Tillary Street Bike Lane Parking Lot 5

5/08: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24

5/07: Eyes on the Street: Five Borough Bike Tour 4

5/07: StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway 0

5/07: They Cover the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Future Greenway 0

5/04: DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead 0

5/03: Register for the Tour de Brooklyn 0

5/02: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29

April 2007

4/30: Eyes on the Street: Critical Mass of U.S. Senators 1

4/30: Eyes on the Street: Tour de Senator Schumer 5

4/27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6

4/25: Streetfilms: Little Legs for Green Streets 0

4/20: They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It 16

4/19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1

4/19: Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space 7

4/19: Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards 0

4/11: DOT's 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions 8

4/11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9

4/10: The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone 0

4/10: Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan 9

4/10: Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT's 9th Street Plan 0

4/06: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24

4/06: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3

4/06: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7

4/03: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36

March 2007

3/29: Sneak Peek at DOT's Plan for Park Slope's 9th Street 18

3/29: Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street? 8

3/29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12

3/29: A Tale of Two DOT Plans 2

3/29: Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes 15

3/29: A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza 0

3/29: StreetFilms: Reclaiming Grand Army Plaza 0

3/28: Eyes on the Street: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn 12

3/27: Important Meeting for Livable Streets Advocates 5

3/26: Streetfilms: George Washington Parked Here 5

3/26: City Council Fiddles While New York City Chokes on Traffic 27

3/22: Studies Refute DOT's Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer 5

3/19: Park Slope says: "One Way? No Way." CB6 says: "Let's Study It." 9

3/16: Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting 18

3/16: Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering 23

3/14: StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way 10

3/13: DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning? 6

3/12: One Way? No Way. Send a Message to City Hall. 1

3/08: The New York City Parking Boom 14

3/08: Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning 22

3/07: DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support 12

February 2007

2/28: DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed 1

2/28: DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope 105

2/27: No Parking Slope 27

2/22: Atlantic Yards Planner: "Space on Streets is Useless Space" 18

2/21: Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway? 13

2/21: Why Wasn't Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue? 2

2/21: Eyes on the Street: Snow Days 6

2/20: Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link? 4

2/19: DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave 16

2/15: Visualizing a Car-Free Bedford Avenue 41

2/15: Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died 16

2/06: Birth Announcement and Illegal Permit Parking 17

January 2007

1/18: The State of the City 3

December 2006

12/22: Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC 8

12/21: Confronting Our Problems 112

12/20: Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov't 0

12/20: Donut Emergency: Cop Parked in Crosswalk and Bike Lane 18

12/19: Did a Blogger's Big Scoop Stall "Atlantic Yards?" 8

12/18: Wider Sidewalks & a Bicycle Park-and-Ride for Williamsburg 68

12/13: Pedestrian Safety in Brooklyn Heights 0

12/13: Eyes on the Street: Horrific Ped Fatality in Bklyn Hts This AM 3

12/11: Life at Streetsblog Headquarters 3

12/08: 6-Year-Old Boy Fatally Hit by Truck in Brooklyn 7

12/07: Tillary Street: Bike Lane or Parking Space? 20

12/06: A Parking Lot Grows in Brooklyn 1

November 2006

11/29: What Went Wrong With "Atlantic Yards?" 31

11/21: A CRISPier Way to Build NYC's 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes? 17

11/20: Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza 1

11/13: Birth of a Class III Bike Route 10

11/09: "Officials Deny" That Flatbush and Glenwood is Dangerous 4

11/08: Buses and Atlantic Yards 0

11/08: Grand Army Plaza Bollards: Saving Lives and Wrecking Cars 1

11/07: Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill 16

11/03: NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer 8

11/03: New Bike Markings For Brooklyn's Fifth Ave. This Month 6

October 2006

10/31: T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing 11

10/26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5

10/26: Street Hockey: The New Stickball? 3

10/25: Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza 11

10/24: Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage 1

10/23: They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot 0

10/19: Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue 2

10/12: Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight 0

10/09: Eyes on the Street: Prospect Park, Brooklyn 7

September 2006

9/28: Eyes on the Street: Bicoastal Streetcars 24

9/26: Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing 21

9/25: Aiming to Reduce Car Use Around Brooklyn's New Park 8

9/22: DOT Reply on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Bike Lane 12

9/20: Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue 4

9/18: Street Renaissance Antics on Atlantic Avenue 2

9/12: Community Forum on Atlantic Yards 0

9/06: Easy Riders: Brooklyn Critical Mass Rolls With the NYPD 9

9/05: Street Quotes: Post-Labor Day Re-Acclimation 2

August 2006

8/30: Signs of Crooked Pedestrian Priorities 8

8/28: The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront 12

8/25: Brooklyn Bridge's SUV Ban Hidden in Plain Sight 12

8/24: Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street 10

8/23: "Atlantic Yards" Public Hearing 1

8/14: Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets 3

8/14: Having it Both Ways in the "Atlantic Yards" DEIS 3

8/09: Critical Mass Brooklyn 2

8/07: New York Magazine on the "Atlantic Yards" Project 1

8/03: Community Board Forums on "Atlantic Yards" 0

July 2006

7/29: Greenpoint & Williamsburg Waterfront: The Farewell Tour 0

7/28: DOT Revs Up its "Alternative Modes" Department 5

7/26: Gridlock in Williamsburg 0

7/26: Bedford Avenue Bike Parking Update 0

7/25: “Atlantic Yards” Public Input Workshop 0

7/25: Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes 9

7/24: Lost in Transition: Williamsburg & Carroll Gardens 0

7/20: "Atlantic Yards" Public Input Workshop 0

7/19: Headlines You Don't Want to See Above a Photo of Your Block 3

7/18: "Atlantic Yards" Public Input Workshop 0

7/18: Atlantic Yards Hearing Set for... When You're Out of Town 9

7/18: Park Slope Parent Ped Rage 5

7/17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2

7/11: Atlantic Yards Environmental Review Workshop 0

7/11: Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook 5

7/10: Rally for Smart Growth in Brooklyn 0

7/07: Sierra Club Energy Forum 0

7/05: Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon 0

June 2006

6/29: Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking 0

6/29: Today's Headlines 0

6/29: Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bridge, Thurs. June 29, 8:45 am 0

6/16: The $46 Million Parking Perk 9

6/14: Brooklyn Bus Rapid Transit Meeting 0

6/14: New Bike Plan for Ft. Greene and Prospect Hts. 0

6/13: Brooklyn Bus Rapid Transit Meeting 0

6/12: Municipal Art Society Public Forum on Atlantic Yards 0

April 2006

4/19: Brooklyn Traffic 5

November 2005

11/10: Billyburg bike bandits strike again 5

October 2005

10/14: Making NYC's Streets Safe for Hydrants & Pay Phones 18