Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Fort Greene

Businesses on Fowler Square Plaza: Go Ahead, Make It Permanent

By Stephen Miller | Nov 20, 2012 | 3 Comments

DOT is scheduled to go before Community Board 2’s transportation committee on December 18 with plans to make the new pedestrian plaza at Fowler Square in Fort Greene a permanent redesign. Before the city went ahead with reclaiming this block of North Elliott Place for the plaza, a small, vocal contingent — mostly upset that they would […]

NYPD Cruiser Hits Cyclist in Fort Greene

By Brad Aaron | Sep 21, 2012 | 15 Comments

Streetsblog reader Chad Kellogg, a cyclist who lives and works in Fort Greene, came upon this scene earlier today. He writes: A police car hit a cyclist (who had the right of way) at the corner of Myrtle and Vanderbilt at around 11:40 a.m. this morning. The cyclist was knocked to the ground and injured […]

“Park Avenue Is Broken, And It Can Be Fixed”

By Stephen Miller | Sep 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

Council Member Letitia James and Assembly Member Joseph Lentol joined local residents on Park Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday to push DOT and other city agencies to implement recommendations from the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Partnership’s pedestrian safety plan. The plan calls for a set of pedestrian safety improvements and traffic enforcement measures to make Park Avenue […]

Park Avenue Plan Challenges Agencies to Improve Street for Pedestrians

By Stephen Miller | Sep 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

In 1959, when the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway was under construction, Park Avenue in the Wallabout section of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill was converted from a neighborhood street to a service road that would run underneath the new elevated highway. Walking on the street hasn’t been the same since. With 160,000 cars roaring by overhead each […]

Brooklyn CB 2 Committee Says Yes to Lafayette Avenue Shared Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jun 20, 2012 | 6 Comments

Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 2’s Transportation and Public Safety Committee voted 8 to 1 (with one abstention) to support DOT’s proposal to install sharrows on Lafayette Avenue between Fulton Street and Classon Avenue. The vote comes after DOT abandoned a bike lane concept in 2010, spurring neighborhood residents to gather 1,400 signatures seeking a […]

Eyes on the Street: Fowler Square Plaza Opens in Fort Greene

By Noah Kazis | May 11, 2012 | 7 Comments

Fort Greene’s newest public plaza opened today and Brownstoner was on the scene to capture the moment. The plaza, which reclaimed space for pedestrians on a short, lightly-trafficked block of South Elliott Place between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, connects the sidewalk to an existing public triangle. Even though construction only finished today (because the […]

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