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November 2009
Mon 2: Brooklyn Bus Stop Draws Bigger Crowd Than Thompson Anti-BRT "Rally" 45
September 2009
Fri 25: Streetfilms: The Sands Street Bike Path, a New Kind of Bridge Approach 10
Fri 18: Latest Kent Avenue Bike Lane Complaint: Truck Traffic 23
Fri 11: What Happens When Mom and Pop Shops Depend on Cars? 12
Tue 8: Double-Parkers Gravitate Into Sands Street Bike Path 8
August 2009
Mon 31: Cyclist Injured in Collision on Jay Street This Morning 19
Fri 28: Legacy of Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Advocates Continues 0
Fri 28: Now That's What I Call a Neckdown! 19
Wed 19: District 39 Candidates: Where Do They Stand on Livable Streets? 24
Mon 17: Tuesday: City Council Candidates for District 39 Debate Livable Streets 10
Tue 11: DOT: Sands Street Bike Path Not Quite Finished 4
Fri 7: Today: Celebrate a Livable Streets Milestone With TA 4
July 2009
Thu 30: Driver, Seen Speeding, Injures Teenager on Fulton Street in Brooklyn 1
Thu 16: Streetfilms: "Stop the Pollution, Pick a Solution" 1
Wed 1: Celebrate Brooklyn With Valet Bike Parking 1
Wed 1: Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Brooklyn CB9 Gets a Bike Lane on Empire Blvd 19
June 2009
Tue 16: Tonight: Weigh In on What's Next for Park Circle Improvements 0
Wed 10: Brooklyn Carnage: Pedestrian Killed, Pedicabbie and Passengers Injured 14
Tue 9: Fifth Ave BID, CB6 District Manager Take Aim at Park Slope Bike Lane 64
Mon 8: Streetfilms: Tour de Brooklyn 2009 8
Fri 5: Summer Streets Coming to Brooklyn This Weekend 4
Tue 2: Cyclist Struck Yesterday Morning at Third and Atlantic in Brooklyn 7
May 2009
Fri 29: Revised Kent Ave Plan Extends Bike Route to Flushing Ave 8
Wed 20: Signs of Progress for Downtown Brooklyn Safety Fixes 3
Fri 15: Saturday: Paint the Pavement With Brooklyn Students 3
Mon 4: New Twist in Kent Ave Saga: Safer Bike Path Plus Parking 4
April 2009
Tue 28: Eyes on the Street: Drivers Flout New Prospect Park Law 25
Tue 28: Car Chases: Not Like What You See in the Movies 22
Fri 17: Two-Way Protected Bike Path Sails Through CB6 Committee 16
Thu 16: DOT to Present Two-Way Protected Bike Path for PPW Tonight 11
Mon 13: Transit Service Shrinking? Get Ready for the Rise of the Dollar Van. 31
March 2009
Wed 25: Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways 11
Fri 20: Livable Streets Community News: Mapping Hotspots, Getting Results 1
February 2009
Thu 19: Tonight: Give DOT Your Ideas for a Safer Park Circle 20
Mon 2: Pedestrian Struck on Carroll Street in Critical Condition 13
November 2008
Tue 18: Eyes on the Street: Pedestrian Haven on Hanson 3
October 2008
Fri 24: Two Pedestrians Killed Today in Separate Hit-and-Run Crashes 0
Tue 21: DOT to Present Ideas for Brooklyn's Most Notorious Intersection 4
Fri 10: Brooklyn Paper Launches New Transpo Beat 3
September 2008
Mon 29: Daily News Finally Finds Injustice in Pedestrian Fatalities 15
Fri 19: Kid-Friendly Park(ing): Fingerpainting on Cortelyou 0
Fri 12: How Would You Reinvent Grand Army Plaza? 11
August 2008
Wed 13: Commerce Bank to Cyclists: Your Money's No Good Here 50
Fri 1: Streetfilms: Biking the Falls 9
July 2008
Tue 22: Evaluating Summer Streets 29
Mon 21: Williamsburg Walks: Opening Up Bedford Avenue 9
Wed 16: Williamsburg Walks: Volunteer Orientation Tonight 2
Wed 16: New Bike Markings for North Greenpoint 13
Mon 14: Streetfilms: Pedestrians Storm Smith Street, Sans Autos 1
Wed 9: Eyes on the Street: Bushwick Sidewalk Driver Gets a Pass 7
Tue 8: Eyes on the Street: A Summer Space on Montague 6
Tue 8: Transit Activist Gary Reilly in the Hunt for City Council Seat 20
Mon 7: T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope "Post-Automobile Street" Designs 10
June 2008
Fri 27: Bedford Avenue to Go Car-Free Four Saturdays This Summer 11
Thu 26: Ikea Tests Bike-Share in Denmark. Why Not NYC? 17
Wed 25: Eyes on the Street: Ikea Shuttles Tearing Through Brooklyn 'Hoods 49
Fri 20: Squad Cars Clear Out of Dekalb Bike Lane 12
Thu 12: Eyes on the Street: Dekalb Bike Lane Used for NYPD Parking 24
May 2008
Thu 29: DOT Previews Big Plans at Greenway Summit 19
Tue 27: Streetfilms: Tour de Brooklyn 2008 2
Thu 22: SE Prospect Park Re-Design Includes Some Restrictions on Cars 7
Fri 16: Streetfilm: Ladies' Repair Night 8
Wed 14: Today's Carnage Brought to You By... 2
Wed 14: Pricing Foe Hakeem Jeffries Demands G Train Service Increase 4
Wed 7: Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots? 0
Fri 2: Can Red Hook Become NYC's Most Bike-Friendly Neighborhood? 16
April 2008
Mon 28: Survey Finds New Yorkers Anxious About Congestion and Safety 13
Fri 25: Pedestrian Killed By Truck Near Brooklyn Bridge 20
Fri 11: De Blasio's Excuse: There Shoulda Been a Brooklyn Lock Box 32
Tue 8: Tonight: Support a Bike-Friendly North Brooklyn 1
Wed 2: Brooklyn Assemblyman "Protects Families" From Pricing 46
March 2008
Thu 20: Demo Today Against Park-Hogging Judges 7
Tue 11: Temporary Chicanes Calm Mr. Eckerson's Neighborhood 9
Mon 3: Today's Headlines 4
Sat 1: Bike Shorts 5: Short Films About the Bike 0
February 2008
Fri 29: Hakeem Jeffries Stands With Westchester on Congestion Pricing 30
Thu 28: Flatbush and Atlantic: Hellacious, Deadly, Likely to Get Worse 28
Fri 22: Let's Chop Up Superblocks 21
Wed 20: Ideas Competition for Brooklyn's Grandest Plaza 17
Tue 19: Brodsky Sows Doubt, Misinformation at Brooklyn Pricing Debate 11
Wed 6: New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue" 38
Tue 5: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow 1
Fri 1: Brooklyn Workshop Focuses on Residential Parking Program 11
January 2008
Thu 31: Word on the Street: Pricing "Like Charging You to Breathe" 1
Mon 28: Parking Workshops Set for Queens and Brooklyn 6
Wed 16: Illegal Parking Now "Legal" for Marty Markowitz 15
Mon 14: From Mad Messenger to More Peaceful Cyclist 11
Tue 8: What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza? 1
Mon 7: Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride Marks Another Year of Loss 1
December 2007
Mon 24: Merry Gridlock! 17
Fri 21: Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Comes to Life 6
Thu 13: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas? 8
Tue 11: New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious" 16
Tue 4: One Intersection, Two Injured Pedestrians, One Summons 0
November 2007
Mon 12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
Thu 8: Riding While Black or Just Riding? 5
Thu 8: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
Wed 7: Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge 71
Fri 2: Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo 18
October 2007
Tue 30: Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance 1
Mon 29: Correcting Thursday's MTA Bike Seizure Correction 5
Thu 25: MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules. 23
Thu 25: DOT Installs 58 Muni-Meters in Bensonhurst 7
Wed 24: Now the MTA is Stealing Bikes in Williamsburg 65
Mon 22: Memorial Held for Craig Murphey 13
Fri 19: Details and Questions Emerge in Brooklyn Cyclist Deaths 27
Thu 18: Two Cyclists Killed in Brooklyn This Morning 16
Tue 16: Park Slope Has Its Park(ing) Day 6
Mon 15: Idle Hands 27
Mon 8: Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts 5
Thu 4: GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship 0
Tue 2: DOT Minds the GAP 9
September 2007
Tue 25: Cars Burned in Brooklyn 1
Fri 21: Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom 4
Tue 18: Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes 6
Mon 17: More Bike Lanes for Brooklyn CB 1 14
Tue 4: Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child's Death 0
August 2007
Wed 29: Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled 5
Tue 28: Celebrating a Car-Free Afternoon In Prospect Park 12
Wed 22: Breaking Carnage: Driver on Sidewalk at Court and Degraw 17
Tue 21: Car-Free Hours Extended in Prospect Park 43
Mon 20: Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn 28
Wed 15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room" 5
Wed 15: Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit! 33
Tue 14: The Cars That Ate New York 0
Mon 13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3
Mon 13: What Up, G? 1
Fri 10: City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park 21
Wed 8: When a Car Does the Killing, It's Always an "Accident." 11
Tue 7: Hello, Dolly! 45
Fri 3: Manhattan Bridge Bikeway to Reopen on Monday 12
July 2007
Thu 26: Smith Street Zombie Invasion? 3
Sat 21: Brooklyn Critical Mass: Feel the Love 9
Fri 20: Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn 5
Tue 10: Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing 1
Mon 9: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
Thu 5: Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes 19
June 2007
Fri 29: "Triboro RX" Could Provide More Transit Opportunities 20
Fri 29: Eyes on the Street: No Bike Amenities for Mermaids 6
Thu 28: Breaking News: 94th Precinct Clipping Bikes on Bedford Ave 25
Thu 28: Express F Rally Today, with Council Members 2
Thu 28: StreetFilms Cyclist of the Month 4
Tue 26: 94th Precinct to Cyclists: Obey Traffic Rules 62
Mon 25: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday 1
Fri 22: Blogger Launches Petititon to Revive Dormant Subway Tracks 13
Thu 21: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff: Bike Commuter 0
Tue 19: New "Bike Boxes" Send Cyclists to the Front of the Line 32
Mon 18: A Livable Streets Exhibition Opens in Brooklyn 1
Fri 15: Eyes on the Street: Franklin Avenue 6
Thu 14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan 0
Tue 12: New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking! 0
Mon 11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1
Fri 8: Cyclists Be Warned: New City Bike Racks May Not be Secure 24
Fri 8: Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg 2
Mon 4: StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn 2
Mon 4: Joe Lentol is Worried About Congestion Pricing Park-and-Riders 0
Mon 4: Tour de Brooklyn: City is Considering Car-Free Central Park Trial 5
Fri 1: Hit by a Car? Nothing Can be Done Unless You're Hurt. 15
May 2007
Thu 31: Armoring Up on the Streets of New York 34
Tue 29: David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing 12
Wed 23: In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza 2
Wed 23: Congestion Pricing: Joan Millman is Not Convinced 29
Tue 22: To Some it's a Park, to Others, a Parking Lot 27
Mon 21: Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Street Fair 0
Fri 18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12
Thu 17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2
Thu 17: Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps 9
Thu 10: Where Do New York City Bike Commuters Come From? 17
Wed 9: Eyes on the Street: Tillary Street Bike Lane Parking Lot 5
Tue 8: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
Mon 7: Eyes on the Street: Five Borough Bike Tour 4
Mon 7: StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway 0
Mon 7: They Cover the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Future Greenway 0
Fri 4: DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead 0
Thu 3: Register for the Tour de Brooklyn 0
Wed 2: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29
April 2007
Mon 30: Eyes on the Street: Critical Mass of U.S. Senators 1
Mon 30: Eyes on the Street: Tour de Senator Schumer 5
Fri 27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6
Wed 25: Streetfilms: Little Legs for Green Streets 0
Fri 20: They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It 16
Thu 19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1
Thu 19: Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space 7
Thu 19: Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards 0
Wed 11: DOT's 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions 8
Wed 11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9
Tue 10: The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone 0
Tue 10: Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan 9
Tue 10: Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT's 9th Street Plan 0
Fri 6: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24
Fri 6: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3
Fri 6: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7
Tue 3: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36
March 2007
Mon 26: City Council Fiddles While New York City Chokes on Traffic 27
Mon 19: Park Slope says: "One Way? No Way." CB6 says: "Let's Study It." 9
Fri 16: Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting 18
Fri 16: Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering 23
Wed 14: StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way 10
Tue 13: DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning? 6
Mon 12: One Way? No Way. Send a Message to City Hall. 1
Thu 8: The New York City Parking Boom 14
Wed 7: DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support 12
February 2007
Wed 28: DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed 1
Wed 28: DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope 105
Tue 27: No Parking Slope 27
Thu 22: Atlantic Yards Planner: "Space on Streets is Useless Space" 18
Wed 21: Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway? 13
Wed 21: Why Wasn't Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue? 2
Wed 21: Eyes on the Street: Snow Days 6
Tue 20: Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link? 4
Mon 19: DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave 16
Thu 15: Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died 16
Tue 6: Birth Announcement and Illegal Permit Parking 17
January 2007
Thu 18: The State of the City 3
December 2006
Thu 21: Confronting Our Problems 112
Wed 20: Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov't 0
Wed 20: Donut Emergency: Cop Parked in Crosswalk and Bike Lane 19
Tue 19: Did a Blogger's Big Scoop Stall "Atlantic Yards?" 8
Mon 11: Life at Streetsblog Headquarters 3
Fri 8: 6-Year-Old Boy Fatally Hit by Truck in Brooklyn 7
Thu 7: Tillary Street: Bike Lane or Parking Space? 20
Wed 6: A Parking Lot Grows in Brooklyn 1
November 2006
Wed 29: What Went Wrong With "Atlantic Yards?" 31
Tue 21: A CRISPier Way to Build NYC's 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes? 17
Mon 20: Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza 1
Thu 9: "Officials Deny" That Flatbush and Glenwood is Dangerous 4
Wed 8: Buses and Atlantic Yards 0
Wed 8: Grand Army Plaza Bollards: Saving Lives and Wrecking Cars 1
Fri 3: NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer 8
October 2006
Tue 31: T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing 11
Fri 27: Brooklyn Critical Mass 0
Thu 26: Street Hockey: The New Stickball? 3
Wed 25: Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza 11
Tue 24: Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage 1
Mon 23: They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot 0
Thu 19: Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue 2
Thu 12: Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight 0
Mon 9: Eyes on the Street: Prospect Park, Brooklyn 7
Sun 1: Liz Padilla Memorial 5K Run 0
September 2006
Thu 28: Eyes on the Street: Bicoastal Streetcars 24
Wed 20: Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue 4
Mon 18: Street Renaissance Antics on Atlantic Avenue 2
Tue 12: Community Forum on Atlantic Yards 0
Wed 6: Easy Riders: Brooklyn Critical Mass Rolls With the NYPD 9
Tue 5: Street Quotes: Post-Labor Day Re-Acclimation 2
August 2006
Wed 30: Signs of Crooked Pedestrian Priorities 8
Mon 28: The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront 12
Fri 25: Brooklyn Bridge's SUV Ban Hidden in Plain Sight 12
Wed 23: "Atlantic Yards" Public Hearing 1
Mon 14: Having it Both Ways in the "Atlantic Yards" DEIS 3
Thu 10: Another Very Bad Week to Ride a Bike in NYC 24
Wed 9: Critical Mass Brooklyn 2
Mon 7: New York Magazine on the "Atlantic Yards" Project 1
Fri 4: B.I.K.E. at the Rooftop Film Festival 0
Thu 3: Community Board Forums on "Atlantic Yards" 0
July 2006
Wed 26: Gridlock in Williamsburg 0
Wed 26: Bedford Avenue Bike Parking Update 0
Tue 25: "Atlantic Yards" Public Input Workshop 0
Tue 25: Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes 9
Thu 20: "Atlantic Yards" Public Input Workshop 0
Tue 18: "Atlantic Yards" Public Input Workshop 0
Tue 18: Atlantic Yards Hearing Set for... When You're Out of Town 9
Mon 17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2
Tue 11: Atlantic Yards Environmental Review Workshop 0
Mon 10: Rally for Smart Growth in Brooklyn 0
Fri 7: Sierra Club Energy Forum 0
Wed 5: Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon 0
June 2006
Thu 29: Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking 0
Thu 29: Today's Headlines 0
Wed 14: Brooklyn Bus Rapid Transit Meeting 0
Wed 14: New Bike Plan for Ft. Greene and Prospect Hts. 0
Tue 13: Brooklyn Bus Rapid Transit Meeting 0
Mon 12: Municipal Art Society Public Forum on Atlantic Yards 0
November 2005
Thu 10: Billyburg bike bandits strike again 5
October 2005
Fri 14: Making NYC's Streets Safe for Hydrants & Pay Phones 19