Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brooklyn

Atlantic Yards Environmental Review Workshop

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Tuesday, July 11, 7 pm St. Cyril’s Belarusian Cathedral Atlantic Avenue and Bond Street "ATLANTIC YARDS" Handbook for the Environmental Review THE COUNCIL OF BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS (CBN) presents a series of meetings to help the public respond to the upcoming Draft Environmental Impact Statement. CBN has announced the first in a series of meetings to […]

Rally for Smart Growth in Brooklyn

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Sunday, July 16, 2 pm GRAND ARMY PLAZARally Starts at 2 pmGather at 1:30 pm On Sunday, July 16th, at 2 p.m., please join thousands of your friends and neighbors at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to rally in favor of appropriate, inclusive, and innovative development with truly affordable housing and sustainable jobs, and against Forest City […]

Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon

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TODAY: WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC, 820 AM/93.9FM12 NOON Guests:Kent Barwick, president of the Municipal Arts Society (MAS), and Stuart Pertz, a member of the panel at MAS’s forum on Atlantic Yards, where the group concluded that "Forest City Ratner’s current plan won’t work for Brooklyn." Photo: MAS Public Forum in Brooklyn, June 15, […]

Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking

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Continuing to ask the questions that don’t seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report’s Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner’s massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Yesterday, Oder questioned the Empire State Development Corporation’s […]

Today’s Headlines

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One of New York City’s 200 "decoy" red light cameras. Standing sentry behind a tree and a full 90-feet away from the intersection of Fifth Ave. and Union St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the fake camera has not been known to deter speeders, red light runners or even graffitti. Cheese! New York City’s Red-Light Cameras to Double (Daily News) Driver […]
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