Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership

Brooklyn CB 2 Committee Unanimously Backs Park Avenue Safety Fixes

By Stephen Miller | May 21, 2014 | 9 Comments

Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 2’s transportation committee unanimously supported a set of traffic calming measures on Park Avenue in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, including a road diet for eastbound traffic [PDF]. The proposal from DOT comes after years of advocacy from local residents and organizations fed up with speeding and dangerous conditions on […]

Park Avenue in Clinton Hill Awaits Fixes as Another Crash Caught on Camera

By Stephen Miller | Dec 9, 2013 | 1 Comment

Last September, local elected officials joined the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership and students from Benjamin Banneker Academy on Brooklyn’s Park Avenue to clock speeding drivers. The Partnership released a report offering suggestions to city agencies about how to improve pedestrian safety on the dangerous avenue, which has a crash rate higher than three-quarters of Brooklyn streets. More than a […]

Eyes on the Street: New Places to Sit on Myrtle Avenue

By Stephen Miller | Dec 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

Combining public seating and tree protection, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership has begun a second round of street furniture installations. The project is bringing 28 tree guards and 22 benches to Myrtle Avenue between Flatbush and Classon Avenues by the end of the year, joining 40 tree guards and benches that were installed in 2011. At one […]

“Park Avenue Is Broken, And It Can Be Fixed”

By Stephen Miller | Sep 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

Council Member Letitia James and Assembly Member Joseph Lentol joined local residents on Park Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday to push DOT and other city agencies to implement recommendations from the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Partnership’s pedestrian safety plan. The plan calls for a set of pedestrian safety improvements and traffic enforcement measures to make Park Avenue […]

Park Avenue Plan Challenges Agencies to Improve Street for Pedestrians

By Stephen Miller | Sep 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

In 1959, when the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway was under construction, Park Avenue in the Wallabout section of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill was converted from a neighborhood street to a service road that would run underneath the new elevated highway. Walking on the street hasn’t been the same since. With 160,000 cars roaring by overhead each […]

DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 12, 2007 | 12 Comments

Via Brownstoner, the Department of Transportation is building out a nice street redesign project in Brooklyn right now as a part of its Ft. Greene Bike Lane & Traffic Calming Project (download a project description here). Formerly a 70-foot-wide one-way street, Carlton Avenue, above, has been converted to two-way operation with five-foot bike lanes on […]

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