Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 9 Comments

The scene in front of Dizzy’s Diner on 9th Street and Eighth Avenue. Park Slope’s 9th Street corridor, with Prospect Park on one end and the Battery Tunnel on the other, has long been known as one of the most dangerous streets in the neighborhood when it comes to car crashes. In March 2004 two […]

The Plan: Making Brooklyn’s 9th Street Safer for Everyone

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 10, 2007 | No Comments

Below is a sketch of DOT’s plan for 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We think it’s a great plan deserving of support. The new configuration narrows a notoriously dangerous four lane road down to two travel lanes and adds a median with left-turn bays and a pair of bike lanes with three-foot buffers. The […]

Updated Version of DOT’s 9th Street Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 10, 2007 | 9 Comments

Above is the latest version of DOT’s plan to improve pedestrian safety, install traffic-calming and stripe bike lanes on 9th Street in Park Slope. If you like this plan and live or work within the boundaries of Community Board 6 or Park Slope, or if you just use 9th Street as a pedestrian, motorist, cyclist […]

Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT’s 9th Street Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 10, 2007 | No Comments

Crash counts show that 9th Street is one of the most dangerous streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn. On March 29, DOT came before the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 and put forward a plan to improve pedestrian safety, smooth out traffic flow and create bike lanes along Park Slope’s 9th Street. From a […]

Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better

By John Kaehny | Apr 9, 2007 | 8 Comments

Saturday afternoon traffic congestion on a London street near Covent Garden with dimensions and land use almost identical to Prince Street in Manhattan. In the days before Wednesday’s hearing on pedestrian safety, the City Council should consider how badly New York City pedestrians fare compare to those in London. While pedestrian safety has been improving […]

City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2007 | 16 Comments

What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"? How about forcing afflicted residents to help foot the bill? That’s what could […]

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