Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn Bridge

Half Moon Over the Brooklyn Bridge

By Aaron Naparstek | | 12 Comments
The "Fixie Flasher" strikes again. Bike Snob NYC tells the sordid tale of a New Year’s Eve morning bike commute gone horribly, horribly wrong… I had been riding Manhattan-bound over the Brooklyn bridge when I was overtaken on the incline by another cyclist. As he passed me, I noticed to my astonishment and horror that […]

Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge

By Alex Marshall | | 71 Comments
I’d bet that people walking outnumber people bicycling across the Brooklyn Bridge by at least 100 to one. I cycle across the wooden-slatted walkway that soars over the top of the bridge regularly now, and every time I do so I think about this. My rolling bicycle negates the space for scores of people every […]

StreetFilms Cyclist of the Month

By Jason Varone | | 4 Comments
Cyclist of the Month: Petra Kirstein A Streetfilm by Sean Clifford Running Time: 3 minutes 50 seconds When asked for advice for New Yorkers who don’t ride, Petra Kirstein says "New York is beautiful, and New York has beautiful weather. Just try it, its wonderful!" The former Transportation Alternatives staffer and life-long bike commuter rides […]

Going Nowhere Fast

By Sarah Goodyear | | 22 Comments
This weekend’s City section of the New York Times featured a mind-blowing essay by children’s-book writer Sarah Shey about her habit of taking her one-year-old son out for drives in the city — drives with no destination or purpose in mind, in which she crossed and recrossed the Brooklyn Bridge endless times. Shey, who is […]

Brooklyn Bridge’s SUV Ban Hidden in Plain Sight

By Aaron Donovan | | 13 Comments
It isn’t just in California where SUV’s are secretly banned from certain roadways. Right here in New York City, many SUVs are banned from the Brooklyn Bridge, but nobody seems to know it. Following on a Slate article about a similar phenomenon in California that came to our attention on Tuesday, Streetsblog correspondent Jason Varone snapped […]

Before There Was a 1010 WINS Bridge & Tunnel Report

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
The Brooklynite, a nicely put together independent literary magazine, has announced that it is ceasing publication. Before disappearing, editor Daniel Treiman has managed to publish one final issue online. It includes an excellent article on the very first traffic jam on the Brooklyn Bridge. I suppose we have made progress, afterall: Officially, the bridge’s opening […]
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