Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

West Side and Sunset Park Community Boards Advance Bike Lanes and Plazas

By Stephen Miller | Feb 21, 2013 | 7 Comments

Last night, two community boards in Sunset Park and Manhattan’s West Side voted to support bike lanes, bike parking and permanent pedestrian plazas. As a result, Sunset Park will be receiving shared lane markings on Fifth Avenue, the permanent reconstruction of a plaza at Ninth Avenue and 14th Street will move ahead, and bike lanes and […]

By More Than 2-to-1, CB 7 Supports Columbus Avenue Bike Lane Extension

By Stephen Miller | Feb 6, 2013 | 4 Comments

Last night, Manhattan Community Board 7 signaled its support for an extension of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane — which currently runs one mile, from 96th to 77th Streets — north to 110th Street and south to 69th Street [PDF]. The 26-11 vote (with one abstention) was a much wider margin than CB 7’s 23-19-1 […]

Will Loss of Parking Perk Get Community Board Chairs Out of Their Cars?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 22, 2013 | 10 Comments

It’s no secret that NYC community boards are highly protective of on-street parking, since their members seem more likely to be car owners than the population at large, but it was news to us that board chairs and district managers have free parking perks. The Brooklyn Paper reports that, come February 1, community board chairs […]

An Open Letter to CB 7 Transportation Chairs Dan Zweig and Andrew Albert

By Mark Gorton | Jan 11, 2013 | 5 Comments

Mark Gorton is the publisher of Streetsblog and lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and four children. This is an edited version of a message he sent to Dan Zweig and Andrew Albert, the co-chairs of the Community Board 7 transportation committee, after neither of them voted in favor of extending the […]

Leaving Co-Chairs Behind, CB 7 Committee Backs Columbus Avenue Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jan 9, 2013 | 7 Comments

After deadlocking in December, Manhattan Commmunity Board 7’s transportation committee voted 7-2, with one abstention, to support the extension of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane before an overwhelmingly supportive crowd last night. The resolution passed without any help from the committee’s co-chairs, Andrew Albert, who abstained, and Dan Zweig, who voted against the resolution. At […]

Tonight: Manhattan CB 7 Can Finally Advance the Columbus Avenue Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jan 8, 2013 | 2 Comments

Tonight, Manhattan Community Board 7 will again consider a DOT proposal to extend the existing Columbus Avenue bike lane, a mile-long segment between 77th and 96th Streets that’s currently isolated from the rest of the city’s network. If the committee supports the lane tonight, the proposal would go before the full board in February in time […]

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