Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Grand Army Plaza Bollards: Saving Lives and Wrecking Cars

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
The scene on Monday morning at the pedestrian refuge island in the middle of Flatbush Avenue between Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Public Library. The bollards this guy smashed into surround the infamous pedestrian refuge island where the "little walk man" beckons people into the middle of Flatbush Avenue and then sadistically traps them there as heavy traffic flies […]

NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer

By Aaron Naparstek | | 9 Comments
Yesterday, the Department of Transportation installed New York City’s very first pedestrian countdown timer at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Kings Highway in Brooklyn. Gothamist, as usual, does a nice treatment of the story and roundup of the coverage. The thing I found most interesting about yesterday’s news was the fact that Mayor […]

T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing

By Aaron Donovan | | 12 Comments
Some reading ahead of tomorrow’s big Transit-Oriented Development forum at NYU… Public attention is focused on Atlantic Yards and condo towers under construction or planned from DUMBO to Long Island City, but the Brooklyn real estate boom is having subtler but equally profound effects on neighborhoods just outside the radar, and these changes are tremendously beneficial from a regional planning perspective. […]

Brooklyn Critical Mass

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, (Prospect Park, North) and Bklyn End of Williamsburg Bridge Critical Mass Brooklyn Critical Mass is a monthly celebration of bicycles and other nonpolluting means of transportation, exercising our right to the road. Critical Mass is a movement, not an organization; no two riders participate for exactly the same reason. Brooklyn Critical […]

Street Hockey: The New Stickball?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
More evidence that hockey — and livable streets — aren’t just "a white thing." From the New York Times’ Metropolitan Diary (along with a photo sent in by the author)… Dear Diary: Several Saturdays ago we had our Bedford-Stuyvesant block party. Cars were cleared by 7:30 a.m., yet by noon there was barely a soul on the […]

Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza

By Aaron Naparstek | | 11 Comments
More public space for Grand Army Plaza: DOT says that it would give the street space highlighted in green to the Parks Department for use during public events and car-free hours in Prospect Park. Since the beginning of 2005 I have been helping to organize a group called the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. The group is focused on improving the pedestrian experience […]
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