Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

DOT Adds Delivery Zones to Tackle Church Avenue Double Parking

By Noah Kazis | Dec 16, 2010 | 5 Comments

The fight for scarce street space is always fierce in New York City, and as DOT’s efforts to install bike and bus lanes across the city have revealed, the most contested zone of all is probably the curbside. On commercial streets, drivers can’t get enough of the underpriced on-street parking while businesses want curbside access […]

1,100 Space Parking Lot at Issue in Latest Atlantic Yards Fight

By Noah Kazis | Nov 30, 2010 | 24 Comments

The latest round of the knock-down drag-out fight over the Atlantic Yards project is underway, and it’s all about parking. At issue is a potential 1,100-space surface parking lot that would be located between Pacific and Dean Streets, just west of Vanderbilt Avenue. That lot has been portrayed as temporary, “interim” parking by the Empire […]

Drivers Kill Four Pedestrians in Six Days, Two Flee Scene

By Noah Kazis | Oct 12, 2010 | 10 Comments

Four pedestrians have lost their lives on New York City streets since Thursday. Two of the crashes were hit-and-runs and a third killed a four-year-old child. A cyclist is also in critical condition after a man who wasn’t licensed to operate the tractor trailer he was driving struck her on a Bushwick street Friday morning. […]

If the Streets Get Safer, Southern Brooklyn Residents Will Ride

By Noah Kazis | Oct 7, 2010 | 9 Comments

Southern Brooklyn isn’t necessarily known as the epicenter of New York City cycling. Car-ownership rates are some of the highest in the city, and elected officials from the area tend to be particularly vocal livable streets opponents. But a recent, admittedly unscientific, survey shows that there’s a hunger for bike infrastructure from Sheepshead Bay to […]

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The Taming and Reclaiming of Prospect Park West

By Robin Urban Smith | Sep 9, 2010 | No Comments

Up until this summer, speeding was the norm on Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West. With three wide lanes inviting motorists to hit the accelerator, it was a street monopolized by car traffic. That changed in a big way in June, when NYC DOT converted one vehicle lane to a two-way bikeway separated from traffic by the […]

Brooklyn CB 15 Asks Whether Safer Streets Are Worth 100,000 Sneezes

By Ben Fried | May 18, 2010 | 13 Comments

If you ever need a laugh but don’t feel like shelling out for the two-drink minimum, you could do worse than head over to a Brooklyn CB 15 meeting. At an info session last night about plans for Brooklyn’s inaugural rapid bus line, the first question out of the audience was, "How many parking spots […]

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