Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Downtown Brooklyn

Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon. Photo: NYS Assembly

Jo Anne Simon on Congestion Pricing: We Can Do This

By David Meyer | Feb 8, 2018 | 2 Comments

Simon's presence in Albany is one reason to believe a congestion pricing vote might play out differently this time. Her predecessor, Joan Millman, sat on the fence during the public debate over congestion pricing in 2008 before expressing her support when it was too late to matter.

Brian Kavanagh: Congestion Pricing “Should Be Part of the Equation”

By David Meyer | Feb 5, 2018 | No Comments

Both the Brooklyn and Manhattan sides of Kavanagh's State Senate district are overrun by motorists drawn to the promise of a free trip across the East River.

No Evidence of de Blasio’s Placard “Crackdown” on Adams Street in Downtown Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Nov 16, 2017 | 19 Comments

Placard-abusing government employees make the Adams Street bike lane an obstacle course, just as they did 15 years ago.

There’s a Great New Entryway to NYC’s Most Uncomfortable Bike-Ped Path

By Ben Fried | May 22, 2017 | 8 Comments

The new and improved entry path to the Brooklyn Bridge Promenade from Downtown Brooklyn is finally rideable. If the rest of the bridge path ever gets a widening and makeover to match this one, it will become one of the great walking and biking connections in New York.

A Trucker Ran Over a Cyclist, So the 84th Precinct Ticketed Cyclists

By Brad Aaron | Oct 12, 2016 | 37 Comments

Aaaaaand… @NYPD84Pct ticketing #bikeNYC again at Tillary and Jay. pic.twitter.com/g0uBuBjVW9 — DoorZone (@D00RZ0NE) October 11, 2016 Hours after a truck driver ran over a cyclist at Jay and Tillary streets yesterday, officers from the 84th Precinct were out ticketing cyclists. Streetsblog reader Paul Vogel, a.k.a. @D00rZ0ne, tweeted photos of officers ticketing people on bikes during the evening […]

Truck Driver Severely Injures Cyclist in Downtown Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Oct 11, 2016 | 258 Comments

Very bad at Jay and Tillary. Looks like KSI #bikeNYC. pic.twitter.com/kuC37iptto — DoorZone (@D00RZ0NE) October 11, 2016 A semi truck driver ran over a cyclist at the corner of Jay and Tillary streets in Downtown Brooklyn this morning. The crash happened at around 7:15. NYPD told Streetsblog the truck driver was turning right from Tillary onto […]

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