Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Park Slope Neighbors

CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project

By Aaron Naparstek | | 12 Comments
The transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6, of which I’m a member, voted unanimously last night to approve DOT’s traffic calming and bike lane plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street. The approval came with requests that DOT build a bike lane along Prospect Park West, undertake a curbside management study aimed at alleviating double-parking […]

Brooklyn to Mayor: Get a Transportation Policy

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
A 1997 traffic-calming protest in Brooklyn Heights (Photo: Transportation Alternatives). The neighborhoods of north Brooklyn have long been some of the most abused by regional traffic and transportation policy. So, it is not a surprise to see that the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has managed to convince twenty-eight Brooklyn neighborhood organizations to sign-on to a strongly […]

Liz Padilla Memorial & Bike Improvements

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
 On June 9, 2005, one year ago tomorrow, 28-year-old pro bono lawyer and Park Slope resident, Elizabeth Kasulis Padilla was hit by a truck and killed on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Prospect Place while riding a bicycle to her new job at the Brooklyn Bar Association. Since that day, members of Park Slope […]