Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov’t

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 20, 2006 | No Comments

NoLandGrab is now reporting that Sheldon Silver is now expected to vote to approve Atlantic Yards today. The word is out, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is going to vote to APPROVE Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal because Governor Pataki has allowed a stand-alone vote, not tied to other appropriations. Also Silver feels that the financial […]

Donut Emergency: Cop Parked in Crosswalk and Bike Lane

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 20, 2006 | 19 Comments

This photo comes from a recent entry on MyBikeLane.com. Jessica writes: Coming home this evening from work on my bike, i saw 2 officers pull up to the curb, successfully parking in a crosswalk AND bike lane. I stopped and asked "Officer… do you really need to park in the crosswalk AND bike lane?" To […]

Did a Blogger’s Big Scoop Stall “Atlantic Yards?”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 19, 2006 | 8 Comments

NY1 is reporting a rumor that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will not vote to approve Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development project at tomorrow’s three-men-in-a-room meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board. (Amazingly, this one meeting constitutes the only legislative "debate" and vote that this massive project will ever see). NY1 reports: According to a […]

Life at Streetsblog Headquarters

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2006 | 3 Comments

This letter just rolled off my printer: Do you think your over-sensitive car alarm, which has been sounding off repeatedly all day today, is protecting your massive SUV? Or is it making it all the more likely that some otherwise peace-loving neighborhood person will go berserk and vandalize your vehicle? Just asking. Taking deep […]

6-Year-Old Boy Fatally Hit by Truck in Brooklyn

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 8, 2006 | 7 Comments

Three mornings a week I ride past the South Brooklyn Casket Company on Union Street with my two-year-old son strapped to the back of my bicycle on our way to the nursery school. Though the Casket Company always has trucks parked and unloading all over the sidewalk (and someone, I assume it’s the boss, likes […]

Tillary Street: Bike Lane or Parking Space?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 7, 2006 | 20 Comments

Guess what Transportation Alternatives’ Brooke DuBose and Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson found in Downtown Brooklyn’s physically-separated bike lane on Tillary Street this morning? Cars and trucks, of course. Four of them driving, parking or unloading in the "protected" bike lane in just ten minutes of filming. Streetsbloggers who have been debating bike lane design and enjoying Bollard Porn, will appreciate Clarence’s […]

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