Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Atlantic Avenue Speedway Claims Life of Rodney Graham, 49

By David Meyer | Jan 11, 2016 | 4 Comments

Early Sunday morning, Rodney Graham was killed while crossing Atlantic Avenue when he was struck twice by separate motorists. Street safety advocates are calling on the city to implement significant design changes to prevent more loss of life. Graham, 49, was crossing Atlantic at Rockaway Avenue in East New York at around 4:20 a.m. Citing […]

After $11M in Repairs, Is Borough Hall Plaza a Plaza, or a Parking Lot?

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2015 | 18 Comments

Bklyn. Borough Hall plaza almost redone. Now it returns to its intended purpose: parking. @StreetsblogNYC pic.twitter.com/rYE6pgpGxF — Brian Howald (@bdhowald) November 20, 2015 This year, contractors hired by the Parks Department got to work replacing the bluestone in the plaza outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, which was busted up due in part to people — including […]

Tonight: DOT Workshop on Atlantic Ave Segment Where Driver Killed Senior

By Brad Aaron | Nov 17, 2015 | 10 Comments

Yesterday a motorist killed a senior who was trying to cross Atlantic Avenue at an intersection that has no crosswalks. Tonight DOT will host a public workshop to solicit input on a safer design for Atlantic between Georgia Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard, which includes the site of Monday’s collision. Helen Marszalek, 70, was walking across Atlantic at Grant Avenue […]

The Next Brooklyn Bike-Share Expansion Will Be the Thinnest Part of Citi Bike

By Ben Fried | Oct 19, 2015 | 42 Comments

DOT unveiled its latest Citi Bike expansion map last week, and the stations look significantly more spread out than stations in the rest of the system. Spread-out stations are a problem for bike-share users because people have to walk farther to make trips, and that costs time. The National Association of City Transportation Officials recommends 28 stations per square mile — and […]

Next Up for SBS: 23rd Street in Manhattan, Canarsie to Gravesend in Brooklyn

By Stephen Miller | Oct 5, 2015 | 8 Comments

Two more enhanced bus routes are entering the project pipeline in NYC, one along a busy Manhattan crosstown street and the other snaking across a transit-hungry stretch of Brooklyn. The Manhattan project will run across 23rd Street. The Brooklyn project would tackle a long route following the B6 and B82 between East New York and Gravesend, which carried a […]

Seniors Are Not to Blame for NYC’s Failure to Make Streets Safer

By Brad Aaron | Sep 21, 2015 | 10 Comments

In response to motorists fatally striking seniors in the Brooklyn South command, NYPD admonished seniors to be more careful when going outside. A recent fatality in the 70th Precinct is a prime example of how focusing on the behavior of victims is a wrongheaded and ineffective approach to street safety. One of the victims cited in last week’s DNAinfo […]

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