Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Eyes on the Street: Bicoastal Streetcars

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 28, 2006 | 26 Comments

Brooklyn San Francisco Like Clarence Eckerson, I recently returned from a visit to San Francisco. I left with a feeling that San Francisco has the best urban surface transportation in the country: emissions-free buses drawing power from overhead wires, regular buses, cable cars moving up and down steep hills, many cyclists despite those hills, partially buried lightrail and […]

Endless Summer on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 20, 2006 | 4 Comments

For most New Yorkers the official end of summer is Labor Day which, this year, fell on Monday, September 4, 2006. For astronomers, pagans and Daniel Libeskind’s "Wedge of Light," the end of summer is the Autumnal Equinox, the moment when the sun crosses the celestial equator from north to south. By that measure, Fall begins […]

Street Renaissance Antics on Atlantic Avenue

By Ethan Kent | Sep 18, 2006 | 2 Comments

Yesterday was the Atlantic Antic, the annual, day-long festival along Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue, in its 32nd year now. What a beautiful day. You’d be hard-pressed to find a place where as diverse a range of people and activities are brought together in such a natural and comfortable way: This is what Atlantic Avenue looked like […]

Community Forum on Atlantic Yards

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 12, 2006 | No Comments

Tuesday, September 12, Time?NYC College of Technology, 285 Jay Steet, Brooklyn.Community Forum on Atlantic Yards Project. For more info, see www.empire.state.ny.us. Note: this is only a community forum. There is no requirement by the ESDC to record or respond to any public comments presented at this event. The official public hearing is August 23. http://www.empire.state.ny.us/press/press_display.asp?id=740

Easy Riders: Brooklyn Critical Mass Rolls With the NYPD

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 6, 2006 | 9 Comments

Here is a nice piece of correspondence from Streetsblog reader and Brooklyn Critical Mass rider Rich Krollman. If you have a photo or story that you’d like to see published on the blog, we really appreciate reader submissions. Send yours along by clicking "Eyes on the Street" in the upper left corner. We’ll be improving our content […]

Street Quotes: Post-Labor Day Re-Acclimation

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 5, 2006 | 2 Comments

Overheard on Sunday afternoon in Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn where a boy of about five years of age waited impatiently to cross the street with his mother: "You’ve got to be very careful, honey. We’re not in Nantucket anymore. People here don’t stop for little boys to cross the street."

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