This Week: Kent Avenue Report, “Our Cities Ourselves”

With the holiday weekend approaching, the pace of events has slowed a bit this week. There’s a pair of events tied to the "Our Cities Ourselves" exhibit, plus DOT will unveil the results of the Kent Avenue bike lane, one year in. 

Keep an eye on the calendar for updated listings. Got an event we should know about? Drop us a line.

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Eyes on the Street: Drivers Retake the Kent Avenue Bike Lane

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DOT reconfigured the southern part of the Kent Avenue bike lane this spring, but that hasn’t stopped drivers from taking over the lane and the sidewalk for personal parking. A reader took this photo earlier today. He writes: I bike from LIC to Clinton Hill every morning and use the Kent Ave bike path. Luckily […]

Kent Avenue: A Bikeway for All Ages

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While Clarence was out this weekend taping Right of Way install a memorial to victims of traffic violence, he also got this footage of the Kent Avenue bike lane in Williamsburg. Where else but a protected bike lane will you ever see so many kids biking on the street in NYC? Not that long ago, Kent Avenue […]

Latest Kent Avenue Bike Lane Complaint: Truck Traffic

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One section of the Kent Avenue two-way bike path has been painted. Two more will follow. Image: NYCDOT [PDF]. We’ve got another dispatch from the ongoing bike lane drama that is Kent Avenue. At Wednesday night’s information session hosted by Brooklyn CB1, the DOT team gave a short presentation [PDF] outlining their plan to address […]

DOT Plans Road Diet and Bikeway Upgrade on Deadly Section of Kent Avenue

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Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 1’s transportation committee unanimously recommended the board support a DOT project [PDF] to calm traffic on a deadly stretch of Kent Avenue between Clymer Street and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The project also upgrades a link in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway to a two-way protected bike lane. Last March, hit-and-run driver Julio Acevedo, […]

New Twist in Kent Ave Saga: Safer Bike Path Plus Parking

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Photo: i’m not sayin, i’m just sayin After a contentious few months full of clowns, scantily-clad women, illegal billboards, and community board strife (since resolved), we may finally be approaching the denouement to the city’s most talked about bike lane drama. The Brooklyn Paper reports on the latest Kent Avenue development: In an attempt to […]