Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about East New York

Truck Driver Kills Cyclist at Notoriously Deadly Intersection in East New York

By Dave Colon | Sep 1, 2022 | No Comments

A Brooklyn man was struck and killed by a truck driver on Tuesday afternoon at a notoriously dangerous intersection in East New York — the second person to die at that location this year.

ENYCLT members demonstrate for housing over parking. Photo: ENYCLT

Cops Are Hogging Public Space in Poor Communities for Parking They Don’t Need: Report

By Eve Kessler | May 21, 2022 | No Comments

The East New York Community Land Trust identifies 73 underused lots that it says could be developed into housing or commercial space.

A cop in the East Village kneeled on a man arrested for alleged social-distancing violations. Video showed that the officer punched the man while tackling him. Photo: Daquan Owens

Op-Ed: City Must Stop Racially Biased Policing — During COVID and Beyond

By Wilfredo Florentino | May 9, 2020 | No Comments

Mayor de Blasio's tone-deaf excuses for cops' bad behavior need to stop, too.

UPDATE: Second Child Run Down and Killed in East New York — Driver Arrested

By Dave Colon | Feb 27, 2020 | No Comments

The victim was in a crosswalk.

The site of Abraham’s hit-and-run crash at Montauk and Sutter Avenue. Image: Google Streetview

Op-Ed: Communities of Color Need Protected Lanes, Too!

By Dave "Paco" Abraham | Jul 3, 2019 | 15 Comments

Bike-infrastructure inequities among neighborhoods continue — which is hard to square with Mayor de Blasio's stated goal of knitting together the "two cities" of New York. The Department of Transportation must fix the problem.

A DOT rendering from the second phase of the Atlantic Avenue rebuild shows bike lanes along the median. Image: DOT

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Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long

By David Herman | Jun 24, 2019 | 11 Comments

The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.

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