Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

“Atlantic Yards” Public Input Workshop

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2006 | No Comments

Tuesday, July 18, 7 pm Park Slope Methodist Church 493 8th Street at 6th Avenue. Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods DEIS Handbook Workshop The COUNCIL OF BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS ("CBN") today (July 12, 2006) announced additional times and locations for the series of meetings they are holding to prepare the community to respond to the Draft Environmental […]

Atlantic Yards Hearing Set for… When You’re Out of Town

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2006 | 9 Comments

The view up Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, looking northward. Before Frank Gehry and After. Renderings by Jonathan Cohn, BrooklynViews The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Forest City Ratner’s "Atlantic Yards" project in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn was released today. It can be found here on the Empire State Development Corporation’s web site. The release of this […]

Traffic Engineering by Body Count

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2006 | 2 Comments

Van Brunt and Wolcott Streets. Before paint, July 7. After paint, July 14. The New York Observer’s Real Estate reported that the woman struck by a mini-van pulling out of the Fairway Market parking lot in Red Hook on Thursday, July 6, has died. The Daily News identified her as Janett Ramos, 45, of Sunset […]

Vehicle City

By Ethan Kent | Jul 16, 2006 | No Comments

Foreign correspondence from Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces: I was working in Flint, Michigan the first part of this week. Remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine "Steets Rennaissance." Flint originally built itself around the car and, after […]

Atlantic Yards Environmental Review Workshop

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 11, 2006 | No Comments

Tuesday, July 11, 7 pm St. Cyril’s Belarusian Cathedral Atlantic Avenue and Bond Street "ATLANTIC YARDS" Handbook for the Environmental Review THE COUNCIL OF BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS (CBN) presents a series of meetings to help the public respond to the upcoming Draft Environmental Impact Statement. CBN has announced the first in a series of meetings to […]

Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 11, 2006 | 5 Comments

Not surprisingly, the opening of the popular new Fairway Market in Red Hook, has significantly increased daily motor vehicle mayhem in this formerly moribund corner of Brooklyn. Last Thursday evening, July 6, at about 10 pm, Red Hook suffered its first-known Fairway casualty when a woman was hit by a gray minivan at the intersection […]

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