Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Will “Atlantic Yards” Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 20, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Atlantic Yards plan superimposed on the released JFK-to-Lower Manhattan rail link study (PDF docs). Click here for a much bigger map. Jonathan Cohn at BrooklynViews is reporting that the current plan for Forest City Enterprises’ Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn appears to preclude the possibility of someday building one of the Pataki Administration’s favorite […]

DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 19, 2007 | 16 Comments

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. DOT’s announcement of $4 million in funding for the installation of "median extensions, neckdowns and other traffic-calming" measures […]

Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 15, 2007 | 16 Comments

The May 2003 final report of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project recommended pedestrian safety measures designed specifically to prevent the kind of collision that killed a four-year-old boy in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon. A graphic from the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project final plan showing pedestrian safety recommendations for Third […]

Birth Announcement and Illegal Permit Parking

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 6, 2007 | 17 Comments

Aaron Naparstek, the editor of Streetsblog, and his wife Joanne Nerenberg announce the birth of their second son, Saul Oren Naparstek, Thursday, February 1, 2:01 pm. Saul weighed in at 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20 inches tall. He was born at Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn with a city government […]

The State of the City

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg delivered his State of the City address at Brooklyn Tech yesterday afternoon. Anyone hoping to hear policy proposals on traffic, transportation, livable streets, climate change and long-term sustainability issues was likely disappointed. During the speech, a Streetsblog tipster happened to be biking along Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn on his way to the […]

Confronting Our Problems

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 21, 2006 | 113 Comments

Below is an interesting e-mail sent yesterday to Transportation Alternatives. T.A. forwarded it to Streetsblog and we all thought that it would make fodder for an interesting discussion. The letter’s author gave Streetsblog permission to publish it. One of my questions is whether people think that this cyclist’s approach is a productive way for New York City’s urban environmental advocates to press […]

Show More Stories