Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Why Arguments Against the Amsterdam Protected Bike Lane Don’t Hold Up

By David Meyer | Feb 2, 2016 | 43 Comments

This is the day Manhattan Community Board 7 will finally vote on DOT’s redesign of Amsterdam Avenue from 72nd Street to 110th Street, which will calm traffic and bring safety improvements — including a protected bike lane — to what is now a surface speedway cutting through the heart of the Upper West Side. It’s been a long […]

CB 4 Transpo Committee Endorses Sixth Ave Protected Lane

By David Meyer | Jan 21, 2016 | 17 Comments

DOT is set to move forward with a protected bike lane on Sixth Avenue from 8th Street to 33rd Street after members of the Community Board 4 transportation committee gave the project a thumbs-up last night. In November, the committee declined to support the proposal because members felt the new design did not do enough to protect pedestrians […]

Looking to Join Your Community Board? TA Makes It Easy to Apply

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2016 | 7 Comments

As Streetsblog readers know, too many community boards care more about on-street parking than street safety or housing affordability, even in districts where the majority of residents don’t own cars. DOT rarely implements safety measures over board objections (which Council Member Ritchie Torres would like to change). While a small number of boards are asking DOT to be more bold with street […]

Torres: DOT “Abdicating Its Public Safety Function” to Community Boards

By David Meyer | Jan 14, 2016 | 23 Comments

Council Member Ritchie Torres has a proposal to survey community board demographics in an effort to promote more accurate and diverse representation. Among other information, the survey would reveal the share of community board members who own cars, which tends to be much higher than car ownership among the general public. Torres, who represents neighborhoods in the […]

Most New Yorkers Don’t Own Cars. Do Community Boards Reflect That?

By David Meyer | Jan 11, 2016 | 31 Comments

Most households in New York City, about 56 percent, don’t own cars. But if you’ve ever attended a community board meeting about redesigning a street, you might have come away thinking that car storage is the single most important function our streets serve. That’s a big problem, since DOT often defers to community boards when deciding […]

Manhattan Community Board 9 Votes for Broadway Road Diet

By David Meyer | Dec 18, 2015 | 15 Comments

Victory! CB9 voted in favor of @NYC_DOT ‘s plan for safety improvements for Broadway that will save lives @transalt pic.twitter.com/YCTgid6eOc — David Guerrero (@Daverro) December 18, 2015 Manhattan Community Board 9 voted last night to approve DOT’s plan for safety improvements along Broadway in West Harlem. The road diet will slim Broadway between 135th Street […]

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