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DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2007 | 105 Comments

Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue: a pedestrian- and bike-friendly, two-way, neighborhood Main Street. New York City’s Department of Transportation is getting set to propose a major change in the way cars and trucks flow through the avenues and streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn.Sources say that the plan will include the following: Fourth Avenue, a major six-lane […]

No Parking Slope

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 27, 2007 | 28 Comments

The B67 bus veers around a double-parked van blocking a car parked in front of a fire hydrant as a Bugaboo-pushing nanny strolls by Councilmember David Yassky and Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White calling for more sensible parking policy this afternoon in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Every drivers knows that it can be nearly impossible […]

Atlantic Yards Planner: “Space on Streets is Useless Space”

By Jason Varone | Feb 22, 2007 | 18 Comments

In this week’s New York Observer, Matthew Schuerman talks at length with Laurie Olin, the landscape architect who may or may not have been teamed up with starchitect Frank Gehry on Forest City Enterprise’s Atlantic Yards project "to compensate for Mr. Gehry’s reputed lack of urban-planning skills." Schuerman writes: Mr. Olin’s role in the project […]

Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 13 Comments

Word has it that the city is finally cracking down on uncivil servants’ illegal parking privileges. Was this the final outrage that finally spurred the Bloomberg Administration to take action? A Manhattan tipster reports that a jersey barrier has suddenly appeared in front of the Brooklyn Bridge on-ramp where scores of Police Plaza employees […]

Why Wasn’t Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

DOT has gotten back to me with some answers. As Streetsblog reported Monday, New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. Streetsblog asked DOT why […]

Eyes on the Street: Snow Days

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 6 Comments

When there isn’t snow on the ground where does all the black stuff go? Photo courtesty of Gowanus Lounge.

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