Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Downtown Brooklyn

Willoughby Plaza, Already a Hit, Gets a Capital Upgrade

By Noah Kazis | Apr 18, 2012 | 4 Comments

Downtown Brooklyn’s Willoughby Street plaza, located just off Adams Street, was the forerunner of New York City’s current efforts to reclaim roadways as pedestrian spaces. Built in 2006, before Janette Sadik-Khan took over the city Department of Transportation, the city used now-familiar ingredients — concrete planters and folding chairs — to close the block to […]

On Jay Street, Police Break Traffic Laws More Than They Enforce Them

By Noah Kazis | Nov 29, 2011 | 24 Comments

Walk out on any New York City street and you’re likely to find rampant disregard for traffic laws. Pinpointing exactly who’s speeding requires special equipment, but for many offenses, you can track the level of lawlessness with the naked eye. A team of Transportation Alternatives volunteers did just that over the course of October on […]

Eyes on the Street: A Clearer Path for the Adams Street Bike Lane?

By Ben Fried | May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments

A reader sends this shot of the freshly paved surface of Adams Street, heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge just south of Johnson Street. The parking regulations have switched sides, so it looks like the old curbside bike lane on the right side of the street — a notorious double-parking zone — will be shifting over, […]

The Fulton Street Mall: Retail Success on NYC’s Original Transitway

By Noah Kazis | Mar 14, 2011 | 11 Comments

As the New York Post continues its increasingly tedious assault on pedestrians and crosstown transit riders, its writers always seem to suggest that giving priority to buses in an important retail area is both radical and self-evidently bad for business. If they bothered to look just one borough away, they’d see that nothing could be […]

NYCEDC Building a Park(ing Lot) for Downtown Brooklyn

By Noah Kazis | Sep 27, 2010 | 28 Comments

If you’ve ever wished you could dodge more cars and inhale more exhaust on your way to the park, Downtown Brooklyn’s next green space is for you. It will be built on top of a garage with nearly 700 underground parking spots. Last Thursday, the city’s Economic Development Corporation released a request for proposals to […]

“Movement Afoot” to Drop Downtown Brooklyn Parking Minimums

By Noah Kazis | Jul 23, 2010 | 7 Comments

New York’s third central business district doesn’t need mandatory parking minimums. Photo: Brownstoner As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the Department of City Planning is currently studying the merits of parking minimums in some of New York’s transit-rich neighborhoods, like Harlem and western Brooklyn and Queens. And local interests in at least one neighborhood, Downtown […]

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