Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Crown Heights

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 […]

Community Boards Split on Franklin Avenue Road Diet and Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | May 30, 2014 | 7 Comments

A proposal to enhance safety on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, which would put the street on a road diet and extend a painted bike lane one mile further south, is stuck in a tale of two community boards. CB 8, which covers the northern half of the project, is set to back the plan […]

Imagining a New Atlantic Avenue for de Blasio’s New York

By John Petro | May 1, 2014 | 6 Comments

Atlantic Avenue is one of New York’s most prominent streets, and in most respects, it is completely broken. Stretching more than ten miles, Atlantic cuts through several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens while functioning mainly as an urban highway for private motorists and truckers making their way east, toward the Van Wyck and Long Island, or […]

When Traffic Deaths Don’t Make the News: Jelani Irving, 22

By Stephen Miller | Apr 15, 2014 | 6 Comments

While NYC traffic deaths are down in the first few months of 2014, they are still so frequent that not every fatality gets reported in the news. This is often the case when a victim dies from injuries in the hospital days after a crash. That’s what happened earlier this year to 22-year-old Jelani Irving. Irving […]

Cumbo Calls for Safer Atlantic Ave, and Trottenberg Promises Action

By Ben Fried | Mar 28, 2014 | 7 Comments

Minutes after Council Member Laurie Cumbo and street safety advocates called for immediate action to reduce traffic violence on Atlantic Avenue, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg told the audience at a Vision Zero forum in Crown Heights last night that DOT intends to make Atlantic one of its early priorities for safety fixes. Atlantic Avenue is […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Charged With Reckless Driving for Killing 5-Year-Old

By Stephen Miller | Mar 17, 2014 | 10 Comments

Last night just before 8:30, five-year-old Roshard Charles was crossing Empire Boulevard between Nostrand Avenue and Rogers Avenue with his mother, his baby brother, and a friend. They were just outside his family’s apartment when a double-parked driver threw her car in reverse, hit the gas and killed the boy as he was about to reach the […]

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