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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