Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Majority Favor Extending Columbus Bike Lane, But CB 7 Fails to Advance It

By Stephen Miller | Dec 12, 2012 | 11 Comments

Despite a strong majority who turned out to support safer streets on the Upper West Side and conclusive evidence that pedestrian injuries have dropped thanks to the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane, Manhattan Community Board 7’s transportation committee failed to advance a resolution to extend the Columbus redesign beyond its current one-mile stretch between 77th and 96th Streets. […]

Tonight: DOT Talks Protected Bike Lanes With Upper West Side’s CB 7

By Stephen Miller | Dec 11, 2012 | 12 Comments

In the wake of last week’s setback for efforts to bring more bike racks to the Upper West Side, Manhattan Community Board 7’s transportation committee will hold a key meeting tonight about an issue on which its chairs have failed to take action: protected bike lanes and complete streets. DOT is scheduled to provide an […]

CB 7 Turns Down Bike Racks as Big Complete Streets Meeting Approaches

By Stephen Miller | Dec 7, 2012 | 18 Comments

Despite a positive vote in committee, earlier this week Community Board 7 on the Upper West Side sidelined a plan to bring more bike racks to the area, after some procedural maneuvering by transportation committee co-chair Dan Zweig stifled discussion. With a key presentation from DOT on extending the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane coming […]

Greenpoint Gets a Preview of Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway on West Street

By Stephen Miller | Nov 16, 2012 | 6 Comments

NYC DOT and consultants for the Department of Design and Construction gave Greenpoint residents a glimpse of preliminary designs for the West Street segment of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Wednesday night at a full meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 1. The two-way bikeway proposed for West Street is the first of 23 capital projects that will eventually comprise the finished, 14-mile […]

Jackson Heights Community Board Votes to Extend Parking Meter Hours

By Stephen Miller | Oct 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

On Thursday, Queens Community Board 3 voted to support a more sophisticated way to price on-street parking on commercial streets [PDF], supporting DOT’s proposal to bring the PARK Smart program to Jackson Heights. PARK Smart can be the most effective traffic-reduction policy in DOT’s toolkit. In some NYC neighborhoods, drivers cruising for parking constitute nearly half of […]

Beware the Dread “Parking Lot for Bikes”

By Ben Fried | Oct 19, 2012 | 19 Comments

Looks like Queens Community Board 1 has some competition when it comes to irrational opposition to on-street bike parking. DNAinfo reports that a proposed bike corral at Wyckoff Avenue and Starr Street in Bushwick has some detractors at Brooklyn Community Board 4. “The transportation will be disrupted…and anyone hit by a car or bike coming […]

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