Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 24, 2006 | 1 Comment

The Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association is holding a rally tomorrow in response to two horrific car killings in Boerum Hill in recent weeks. AABA has been fighting for years for more neighborhood-friendly traffic policies along the Avenue. Here are the details: Wednesday, October 25 at 10:00 am on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Bond […]

They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 23, 2006 | No Comments

One of the more troublesome aspects of Forest City Enterprise’s "Atlantic Yards" proposal is the developer’s plan to create two rather huge, suburban mall-style surface parking lots on the eastern side of the project footprint. If all goes as planned there will 3,600 new parking spaces will be in place by 2012. Today, BrooklynSpeaks runs an […]

Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 19, 2006 | 2 Comments

Emil Kozerawski is still working on the idea of making Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s "Main Street" into a car-free pedestrian boulevard. Now Car-Free Bedford Avenue has its own Streetfilms-style video on YouTube. Speaking of which, don’t forget to tag those YouTube videos "Streetsblog" to ensure that we get a hold of them. I love the vision and […]

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | No Comments

The Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Inititiave is one of the most inspiring and visionary development projects going in New York City right now. The project is very grassroots. Over ten years ago, three Brooklyn residents, Brian McCormick, Milton Puryear and Meg Fellerath got it in their heads that Brooklyn’s waterfront should have a bike path and linear […]

Eyes on the Street: Prospect Park, Brooklyn

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 8 Comments

A Streetsblog tipster notices that Prospect Park motorists seem to be unindoctrinated in the ways of the Litterbug: Since I have been training for this half marathon, I have been doing more running in Prospect Park than bike riding the last few weeks. Each of the last three times I have run in the park […]

Liz Padilla Memorial 5K Run

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 1, 2006 | No Comments

On Sunday October 1st, Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project will host the 1st Annual Liz Padilla Memorial 5k, in honor of Liz Padilla who was tragically killed when a truck driver opened his door into the path of her bicycle last June in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In addition to providing free legal services to […]

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