Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Queens CB 6 Eager for Safety Fixes (Just Don’t Touch Their Parking)

By Noah Kazis | Jan 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Rego Park senior focus area, which includes several blocks of Queens Boulevard, is slated for pedestrian improvements. Click here to enlarge. Image: NYCDOT. As we’ve recently seen in Astoria, DOT doesn’t always bring innovative traffic calming tools to streets that need them. What happens when they do? At a community board meeting in Rego […]

DOT Shows No Traffic Calming Ingenuity for Astoria’s Deadly 21st Ave

By Noah Kazis | Jan 14, 2010 | 7 Comments

Astoria residents demanding a safer 21st Avenue. Image: indiejourno.com. Over the last six weeks, Astoria residents have made a strong push for a safer 21st Avenue, a street plagued by speeding cut-through traffic. In response to requests for traffic calming, NYCDOT recently sent what one resident called a "cryptic letter" explaining only that the street […]

Tonight: Learn How to Infiltrate Your Community Board

By Ben Fried | Jan 11, 2010 | 5 Comments

If you live in Manhattan and you’ve been represented by a community board that seems more concerned with parking spots than creating safe streets and great public spaces, you may want to head uptown tonight. Borough President Scott Stringer’s office is putting on an event for prospective community board members. If you decide to join, […]

Gerson Bill Mandating Review of Transpo Projects Is Now Law

By Noah Kazis | Jan 7, 2010 | 4 Comments

In one of his final acts as a City Council member, Alan Gerson won passage for a bill that may slow down major street projects. New York City’s 2009 legislative session didn’t end without a parting gift from outgoing Lower Manhattan rep Alan Gerson. A new law that passed City Council unanimously before the end […]

Manhattan CB 7 Votes “Yes” on Meters-to-Bike Racks Conversion for UWS

By Noah Kazis | Jan 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

These naked meter poles will be reborn as bicycle racks. Photo: Wiley Norvell. Manhattan Community Board 7 voted last night in favor of converting 240 parking meters to bike racks on 40 blocks of the Upper West Side. The 23-12 vote (with one abstention) was the CB’s closest of the evening, but the outcome was […]

Dyckman Cycle Track Proposal Still in Limbo After Two Years

By Brad Aaron | Dec 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

After almost two years of waiting for DOT analysis of a proposed cycle track for Dyckman Street in Upper Manhattan, advocates this week were promised … more waiting. Dyckman at Nagle Ave. Photo: Dry Fly Guy/Flickr At Monday’s meeting of the Community Board 12 Traffic and Transportation Committee, bike path supporters expected a short update […]

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