Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brownsville

Crucial Details Missing in NYPD Account of Crash That Killed Theauther Love

By Ben Fried | Nov 7, 2011 | 4 Comments

On Friday morning, a traffic enforcement agent driving a marked NYPD vehicle struck and killed the Reverend Theauther Love, 87, as he was walking across Eastern Parkway in Brownsville. Police failed to notify the victim’s family this weekend, according to friends and relatives. But NYPD did issue their standard exculpatory response when the driver in […]

NYCHA Chairman: Parking Minimums “Working Against Us”

By Noah Kazis | Oct 17, 2011 | 15 Comments

Leaders in New York City’s public housing community are interested in transforming city-owned superblocks into mixed-use, mixed-income communities that engage with the pedestrian realm. There are of course many obstacles to this kind of ambitious project, but only one was identified specifically in a Municipal Art Society panel on the topic last Friday: the city’s […]

Weiner Imagines Paying for His Traffic Plan With a Gas Tax Raise

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2007 | 40 Comments

Though reporters weren’t invited, Streetsblog managed to get a stringer into this morning’s On-and-Off-the-Record transportation policy talk with Congressman Anthony Weiner at Commerce Bank in Midtown. During the hour-long Q&A hosted by Edward Isaac-Dovere of City Hall News, Weiner hit on familiar themes: Something needs to be done about traffic but the mayor’s plan […]