Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Important Meeting for Livable Streets Advocates

By Jason Varone | Mar 27, 2007 | 5 Comments

Brooklyn Community Board 6‘s transportation committee will hear presentations and community input on the following items: Presentation and discussion of a proposal by the Department of Transportation for improvements designed to enhance pedestrian mobility, access and comfort at the Grand Army Plaza. Presentation by the Department of Transportation of a plan to install two-way Class […]

Park Slope says: “One Way? No Way.” CB6 says: “Let’s Study It.”

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

In the aftermath of last Thursday’s CB6 transportation committee meeting on the DOT’s proposal to convert Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn to one-way arterials, some observers are noting that the motion that came out of the meeting may not accurately reflect the input of the nearly 700 people who came out to […]

DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St.

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 29 Comments

Last Tuesday night Ryan Russo and Josh Benson from the Department of Transportation presented a plan to Manhattan’s Community Board 2 to create a safer east-west bike route across Lower Manhattan. With three cyclists having been killed on Houston Street over the last two years and major reconstruction of the street currently underway, members of […]

The New York City Parking Boom

By Josh Brustein | Mar 8, 2007 | 14 Comments

The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]

Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety

By Glenn McAnanama | Jan 4, 2007 | 34 Comments

A sacrifice we were willing to make: Until 1922, much of Park Avenue was, in fact, a park. Looking north on Park Ave at about 50th Street. That’s Saint Bartholomew’s Church on the right. Peter Hornbeck was killed on January 10th 2004 in a horrific hit and run crash on 96th and Park Avenue. The driver […]

Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 22, 2006 | 8 Comments

The Department of Transportation’s recently announced streetscape renovation at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn marks the first time ever in New York City that car parking spaces have been removed to make way for bicycle parking. Since breaking the news of this development on Monday, Streetsblog has learned more about the project. DOT’s plan […]

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