Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Grand Plans for Brooklyn’s Iconic Public Space

By Jason Varone | Apr 19, 2007 | 7 Comments

In all of the uproar over DOT’s various transportation proposals for Park Slope last month (One Way? No Way! and 9th Street) this Grand Army Plaza project managed to slip beneath the radar. That’s too bad because it’s a really thoughtful and detailed piece of planning work that will help connect neighborhoods and improve the […]

SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo’s sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City’s plan to install new bike lanes […]

Queens Residents Oppose Loss of Parking for Bus Rapid Transit

By Jason Varone | Apr 17, 2007 | 13 Comments

Trend Watch: New York City Community Boards and civic groups opposing progressive transportation projects on the grounds that they interfere with car owners’ on-street parking and double-parking privileges. Last week, while DOT was catching flack in Brooklyn for its plan to stripe bike lanes on Brooklyn’s 9th Street, Community Board 13 in Queens was putting […]

CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem”

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 12, 2007 | 39 Comments

Community Board 6 was grumpy about the idea of bike lanes on 9th Street. At last night’s Community Board 6 meeting in Brooklyn DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia’s "One Way? No Way!" proposal was shot down decisively, the Grand Army Plaza bike and ped improvements passed unanimously, and the 9th Street pedestrian safety, traffic-calming and […]

DOT’s 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 8 Comments

Print this DocumentNinth Street at Eighth Avenue in Park Slope, outside of Dizzy’s Diner. The Department of Transportation’s plan for pedestrian safety, traffic-calming and bike lane for Park Slope’s 9th Street is causing quite a bit of anxiety. Some of this angst, clearly, has been generated due to DOT’s failure to bring community stakeholders into […]

Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT’s Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

Last night the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 voted 8 to 1 to: Continue to push for the construction of a Class I bike lane on Houston Street. Oppose the construction of left-turn bays on Houston Street. Support DOT’s plan for additional bike lanes and the removal of nearly 200 parking spaces on […]

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