Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Park Slope

The Next Brooklyn Bike-Share Expansion Will Be the Thinnest Part of Citi Bike

By Ben Fried | Oct 19, 2015 | 42 Comments

DOT unveiled its latest Citi Bike expansion map last week, and the stations look significantly more spread out than stations in the rest of the system. Spread-out stations are a problem for bike-share users because people have to walk farther to make trips, and that costs time. The National Association of City Transportation Officials recommends 28 stations per square mile — and […]

DMV: Six-Month Suspension for Driver Who Killed Sammy Cohen Eckstein

By Brad Aaron | Jul 8, 2015 | 11 Comments

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles determined that the driver who killed 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein failed to exercise due care and did not have a valid license at the time of the crash. DMV administrative law judge Marc Berger suspended the driver’s license for six months. At around 5:15 p.m. on October […]

Pedestrian Injuries Down 61% on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope After Road Diet

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2015 | 37 Comments

As in Sunset Park, the Fourth Avenue road diet has yielded impressive street safety dividends for Park Slope, including a 61 percent drop in pedestrian injuries. Now, DOT is moving forward with plans to cast its changes in concrete. Between Atlantic Avenue and 15th Street, the road diet widened medians, shortened crossing distances, and trimmed the number of […]

Eyes on the Street: Dodging Drivers on the Sidewalk

By Stephen Miller | Dec 17, 2014 | 19 Comments

Heads up, New Yorkers. You never know when your neighborhood sidewalk will turn into a construction detour for motorists. A National Grid construction crew blocked Prospect Place between Flatbush Avenue and Sixth Avenue this morning. Since the crew failed to cork the street at the top of the block by Flatbush, drivers were expected to […]

Hit-and-Run Drivers Strike Twice at Dangerous Fourth Avenue Intersection

By Stephen Miller | Nov 5, 2014 | 11 Comments

A driver speeding north on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope this afternoon ran a red light and struck a woman, leaving her seriously injured before speeding away from the scene. Less than six weeks ago, a hit-and-run driver — also speeding north on Fourth Avenue, also running a red — injured a cyclist at the same […]

Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Aftermath at 4th Ave and Degraw

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2014 | 5 Comments

Reader Mike Donohue sends this eyewitness account of a driver who fled the scene of a crash in Park Slope Sunday morning. At about 9:45 a.m., Donohue was on his bike, stopped at a red light on Degraw Street at Fourth Avenue. When the light turned green for traffic on Degraw, a driver heading north on […]

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