Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Fort Greene

Sumiah Ali was struck at DeKalb Avenue and Ashland Place by a UPS worker making the same right turn as the drivers at right in this Google Maps photo.

NYPD: No Charges for UPS Driver Who Killed Woman Walking With the Right of Way

By Brad Aaron | Feb 20, 2018 | 10 Comments

NYPD's account of the crash indicates 27-year-old Sumiah Ali was crossing the street lawfully when she was fatally struck by a UPS driver in Fort Greene.

The city's plan to extend bus lanes on Fulton Street. Image: DOT

Cumbo Wants to Shut Down Fulton Street Bus Lane During Busy Afternoon Hours

By David Meyer | Nov 21, 2017 | 4 Comments

Scaling back the hours would render the bus lane useless during a time of day when thousands of people ride and the need to bypass car traffic is most acute.

Council Member Laurie Cumbo Opposes Fulton Street Bus Lane

By David Meyer | Nov 17, 2017 | 21 Comments

Cumbo is fighting a transit improvement that will benefit tens of thousands of people in an area where about two-thirds of households don't own cars.

People contend with long crosswalks and tides of turning vehicles at Times Plaza in Brooklyn. Image: Google Maps

With the MTA M.I.A., DOT Settles for Small Fixes at Flatbush/Atlantic/Fourth Hellscape

By David Meyer | May 19, 2017 | 3 Comments

The intersection of Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth avenues is in some ways the center of Brooklyn, sitting atop the borough's largest transit hub. It's also overrun by cars, funneling traffic to the BQE and the free East River bridges.

Why Not Fix the Flatbush/Atlantic/Fourth Hellscape With a Traffic Circle?

By Brad Aaron | Aug 5, 2016 | 50 Comments

Could a traffic circle tame cars and trucks at the chaotic intersection of Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth avenues in Brooklyn? A team of architects thinks so. Earlier this week DOT held a public workshop about improving pedestrian safety in this area, where heavy traffic on wide, two-way streets meeting at irregular angles creates exceptional hazards. Motorists injured […]

Brooklyn DA Charges Driver With Manslaughter for Killing Victoria Nicodemus

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

A grand jury has indicted Marlon Sewell for second-degree manslaughter six months after he jumped a curb in Fort Greene and killed 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus while driving with a suspended license, Gothamist reports. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson had refrained from pressing felony charges until Nicodemus’s family pressured his office to take action. On December 6, Sewell, driving a Chevy SUV […]

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