Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn Bridge

Tolling Opens Up Possibilities for Better Brooklyn Bridge Walking and Biking

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 10, 2016 | 2 Comments

With crowding on the Brooklyn Bridge walking and biking path in a state of near constant low-level emergency, this week NYC DOT announced a feasibility study of widening the bridge’s promenade. A path with sufficient space for the thousands of commuters, exercisers, and tourists who walk and bike across the bridge each day would be an […]

Brooklyn Bridge Promenade Expansion Could Start in 2019

By David Meyer | Aug 8, 2016 | 53 Comments

An expansion of the Brooklyn Bridge walking and biking path could get underway by 2019 if it’s folded into a rehab project that’s already in the pipeline, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said this afternoon. The path is as narrow as 10 feet at pinch points and cannot comfortably accommodate the thousands of people who use it each […]

DOT Will Study Widening the Brooklyn Bridge Walking and Biking Path

By Ben Fried | Aug 8, 2016 | 54 Comments

The days of pedestrians and cyclists fighting for scraps of space on the Brooklyn Bridge may be numbered. NYC DOT has initiated a study of expanding the narrow promenade, which is too crowded to work well for pedestrians or cyclists for most of the year. The Times reports that the city has retained engineering firm AECOM […]

Get Ready For a Very Uncomfortable Year on the Brooklyn Bridge

By Stephen Miller | Apr 1, 2015 | 55 Comments

Just as the weather warms and tourists once again mob the Brooklyn Bridge to admire the skyline and snap some photos, DOT has announced that construction work will narrow the one place on the bridge path that’s even remotely close to comfortably wide. The maintenance work involves “steel improvements at tower locations as well as structural joint […]

Eyes on the Street: NYPD Does Its Part to Fuel Brooklyn Bridge Tensions

By Ben Fried | Oct 21, 2014 | 21 Comments

Embarrassed by two German artists who reached the top of the Brooklyn Bridge’s west tower this summer (or was it the All-Powerful Bike Lobby?), NYPD has adopted an ingenious solution: Put a motor vehicle on it! A reader who wishes to remain anonymous sends these observations about the new NYPD security theater at NYC’s most […]

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Need to Add a Bike Lane to a Bridge? Experiment Like Pittsburgh Did

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 12, 2014 | No Comments

The Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 conference took place this week in Pittsburgh. Even though the Andy Warhol Bridge already has a nice shared bike-ped path on it, for one week the city decided to put bike lanes on its roadway. It’s the simplest design you can imagine, just two rows of small traffic barriers and a little […]

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