Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Brooklyn CB 3 Votes Against Saving Lives in Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill

By Brad Aaron | Feb 11, 2014 | 28 Comments

On Monday, Brooklyn Community Board 3 voted against a Slow Zone in a crash-prone area that encompasses parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill. Opponents said slowing down drivers would cause gridlock, and the board doubted that slower speeds would reduce crashes, according to DNAinfo. The proposed zone is bordered by Washington Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, Bedford […]

Manhattan Community Boards Want to Fix 57 Dangerous Places for Peds

By Stephen Miller | Jan 31, 2014 | 11 Comments

Yesterday, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer compiled a list of 57 pedestrian danger hotspots identified by community board district managers and sent it to city agency heads serving on Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero task force. Many of the locations in Brewer’s list have a long track record as dangerous locations, including many where people […]

CB 9 Stands by Morningside Road Diet, But DOT Does Not

By Stephen Miller | Jan 30, 2014 | 15 Comments

A plan to improve pedestrian safety on speeding-plagued Morningside Avenue in Harlem, supported by one community board but stalled by another, is on track for months of additional meetings as DOT goes back to the drawing board. The current plan, which would remove excess car lanes to create space for turn lanes and pedestrian islands, received a […]

Brewer Asks Community Boards to Identify Dangerous Places for Walking

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2014 | 2 Comments

When it comes to street safety improvements, New York’s community boards are usually in a position where they react to proposals from NYC DOT. Now, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer could turn that dynamic on its head: She’s asked each board’s district manager to identify three traffic safety hotspots, saying that she’ll work with city […]

Video: Drivers Endanger Lives on Morningside Avenue as CB 10 Dithers

By Brad Aaron | Jan 21, 2014 | 5 Comments

While Manhattan Community Board 10 fails to take action, proposed measures to make Morningside Avenue safer for pedestrians continue to languish. Among other changes, DOT has proposed restriping Morningside between 116th Street and 126th Street from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction with a center striped median, concrete pedestrian islands and […]

DOT Proposes Crosswalk Fix Where Renee Thompson Was Killed

By Stephen Miller | Jan 15, 2014 | 8 Comments

In September, 16-year-old Renee Thompson was walking to the subway after getting off work just after 10 p.m., when, crossing Third Avenue at 60th Street, she was hit and killed by a turning truck driver. Now DOT is proposing shorter crossing distances at the intersection, but Community Board 8’s transportation committee wants the agency to […]

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