Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn Bridge

Safer, Saner Brooklyn Bridge Entrance on Track for Next Year

By Stephen Miller | Feb 12, 2014 | 30 Comments

After years of planning and advocacy, an effort to improve the dangerous, ugly asphalt expanse on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge is set to take a big step forward tonight. Community Board 2 is meeting to vote on a resolution in support of a plan to expand space for walking and biking, realign car […]

Council Members Propose Widening Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path

By Alex Rothberg | Aug 7, 2012 | 30 Comments

Council Members Brad Lander, Margaret Chin, and Stephen Levin — along with advocates from Transportation Alternatives — stood at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge this morning and put forth a proposal to expand the bridge’s increasingly popular and exceedingly cramped bike and pedestrian path. “It’s about time, in 2012, that we update it […]

Shocking Video From the Brooklyn Bridge “War Path”

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2011 | 22 Comments

Earlier this week we showed Doug Gordon’s incredibly dull video from our ride over the Manhattan Bridge with a member of the Daily News editorial board, a mind-numbingly mundane scene that the paper nevertheless characterized as a “battleground.” The same day, the Post ran a story about the Brooklyn Bridge promenade under the headline “Look […]

Eyes on the Street: A Clearer Path for the Adams Street Bike Lane?

By Ben Fried | May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments

A reader sends this shot of the freshly paved surface of Adams Street, heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge just south of Johnson Street. The parking regulations have switched sides, so it looks like the old curbside bike lane on the right side of the street — a notorious double-parking zone — will be shifting over, […]

The Efficient Past and Wasteful Present of the Brooklyn Bridge

By Noah Kazis | Apr 11, 2011 | 32 Comments

In the headlines this morning, we linked to a great historical photo of the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge on Brownstoner, and it’s taking a closer look at the full implications of the shot. Not for nostalgia’s sake, but to make a cool, calculated appraisal of the efficiency of this piece of transportation infrastructure, as […]

Construction Narrows Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path

By Noah Kazis | Aug 27, 2010 | 9 Comments

During the Brooklyn Bridge rehab, stretches of the 14-foot-wide bike-ped path will be narrowed to 11 feet. Photo: Noah Kazis Heads up if you bike or walk across the Brooklyn Bridge: Rehab work slated to last until 2014 is narrowing the promenade from 14 feet to 11 feet. Right now, paint removal work has narrowed […]

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