Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Clinton Hill

Driver Kills Cyclist Lauren Davis on Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Apr 15, 2016 | 70 Comments

Update: The victim of this crash was identified as Lauren Davis, according to the Daily News. A driver killed a cyclist in Clinton Hill this morning. According to NYPD, the cyclist was riding southbound, against traffic, on Classon Avenue at around 8:35 a.m. when she was hit by the driver of a 2015 Fiat, who […]

More People Get to Fulton Street By Bike Than By Car

By Stephen Miller | Dec 1, 2014 | 15 Comments

When shop owners oppose new plazas or protected bike lanes, even in the city’s most walkable neighborhoods, they often say their businesses rely on street parking to attract customers. Removing even a handful of spaces, they claim, would lead to economic ruin. The reality, of course, is that an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers don’t drive to do their shopping, […]

More Arterial Carnage: Driver Seriously Injures Woman on Atlantic [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Nov 21, 2014 | 41 Comments

Update: A witness to this crash contacted Streetsblog. His account has been added to the post. A motorist seriously injured a pedestrian on Atlantic Avenue at Washington Avenue in Brooklyn this morning. A witness, who didn’t want his name published, told Streetsblog he was crossing Atlantic with several other pedestrians when the crash occurred. “There’s […]

Bowing to Brooklyn CB 3, DOT Puts Bed Stuy Slow Zone on Ice

By Stephen Miller | Sep 11, 2014 | 18 Comments

Bedford Stuyvesant won’t be getting 20 mph streets after all. Despite months of talks after Brooklyn Community Board 3 rejected a request from neighborhood residents for a 20 mph Slow Zone in February, DOT has decided to pull the plug on a traffic calming plan covering 23 blocks of Bed Stuy, effectively giving the community board […]

Can Atlantic Ave Become a Great Street? DCP Will Study the Possibilities

By Stephen Miller | Jul 1, 2014 | 25 Comments

Atlantic Avenue is one of the most prominent streets in Brooklyn, but it’s also one of the most dangerous. The major thoroughfare, paralleled by the LIRR and a subway line just two blocks away, remains a barrier between neighborhoods, plagued by speeding traffic and lined with auto body shops. Can it become an urban street that […]

Eric Adams Calls on Brooklyn Community Board 3 to Back Bed-Stuy Slow Zone

By Stephen Miller | Jun 4, 2014 | 7 Comments

After a setback at Brooklyn Community Board 3 in February, Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill residents asking for a 20 mph Slow Zone stepped up their organizing efforts. But a last-minute decision by CB 3 chair Tremaine Wright has stalled any action by the board until at least September. Faced with Wright’s obstruction, advocates turned to Borough […]

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