Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Tonight: Tell Manhattan CBs That Harlem Needs a Safer Morningside Avenue

By Brad Aaron and Stephen Miller | Oct 23, 2013 | 4 Comments

Community Boards 9 and 10 in Harlem will again hear from DOT tonight on a plan to calm traffic on Morningside Avenue [PDF]. The proposal was developed in response to a request from the North Star Neighborhood Association, and though there is general agreement that speeding drivers are a major problem on Morningside, the community boards […]

CB 10 Votes Against Centerpiece of Bay Ridge’s Fourth Avenue Safety Plan

By Stephen Miller | Oct 22, 2013 | 12 Comments

Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 10 voted on a slate of pedestrian safety improvements for Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge. While a number of smaller changes, such as wider crosswalks and curb extensions, received the board’s support, the board rejected the centerpiece of the plan — trimming traffic lanes to slow speeding drivers [PDF]. The current high-speed […]

CB 7 Committee Asks DOT, 7-0, for Amsterdam Avenue Complete Street Study

By Stephen Miller | Oct 16, 2013 | 19 Comments

After a three-and-a-half-hour meeting that itself followed a nearly three-hour deliberation last month, the Manhattan Community Board 7 transportation committee voted 7-0, with three abstentions, for a resolution asking DOT to study safety improvements for Amsterdam Avenue. The resolution asks DOT to consider a protected bike lane, pedestrian islands, removing one of the avenue’s four […]

Progress for Safer Streets From Queens and Manhattan Community Boards

By Stephen Miller | Oct 10, 2013 | 4 Comments

Last night, the full board of Manhattan Community Board 6 passed a resolution in support of a DOT plan that would fill in a gap between two sections of Second Avenue’s protected bike lane by replacing a car travel lane with parking from 23rd Street to 14th Street. Across the East River, Queens CB 1’s […]

Manhattan CB 7 Committee Keeps Dithering on Amsterdam Avenue Safety

By Stephen Miller | Sep 25, 2013 | 15 Comments

Despite starting off with a somber reminder of the damage created by dangerous driving, Manhattan Community Board 7’s transportation committee ended its meeting last night gridlocked over whether to support meaningful street safety improvements. One of the committee’s first actions was to ask DOT to add an honorary street sign at the corner of 97th […]

Community Board 1 Endorses Tribeca Bike Routes

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2013 | 8 Comments

By a vote of 29-4-1, Manhattan Community Board 1 last night endorsed a DOT plan to add bike lanes and sharrows on north-south streets in Tribeca [PDF]. DOT plans a combination of buffered bike lanes and shared lanes on Church Street, West Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and Varick Street. The proposal does not call for any protected […]

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