Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Mark-Viverito: Misinformation Won’t Stop East Harlem Bike Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Nov 17, 2011 | 34 Comments

After a misinformation campaign by two local business owners, East Harlem’s Community Board 11 rescinded its vote in support of plans for protected bike lanes along First and Second Avenue Tuesday night. The board will soon vote again on the project, which has the backing of local Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito. Community Board 11 has […]

Vacca: Want Safer Streets? Don’t Even Try to Join Your Community Board

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2011 | 16 Comments

Does it get less democratic than this? The City Council Transportation Committee Chair, James Vacca, just told the New York Post that Transportation Alternatives shouldn’t help people join their local community boards. For the past few years, TA has held an annual event walking people through the process of applying for community board membership. The […]

CB 2 Committee Endorses Parking-Protected Hudson St. Bike Lane

By Noah Kazis | Nov 9, 2011 | 7 Comments

The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 voted unanimously on Tuesday to endorse a community-generated plan to upgrade the Hudson Street bike lane to a parking-protected lane. Right now, Hudson Street has a buffered bike lane. It’s one of the oldest in the city according to Ian Dutton, a former vice chair of the […]

CB 8 Committee Warms to Bike-Share, Sets Aside Bike Licenses

By Ben Fried | Nov 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

Manhattan Community Board 8 has a checkered history when it comes to bike-friendly policies. In the past few years, the Upper East Side CB voted repeatedly to support protected bike lanes, but also put out resolutions drenched with anti-bike vitriol on more than one occasion (most recently this June, when the subject was establishing shared […]

West Side Protected Lanes Get Thumbs Up From CB 4

By Noah Kazis | Oct 6, 2011 | 6 Comments

By a vote of 26 to 10 Wednesday night, Manhattan Community Board 4 endorsed DOT plans to extend the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenue from 34th Street to 59th Street. The bike lanes will improve safety for all users on some of Midtown’s most chaotic streets, which pass by Penn Station, the […]

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