Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Park Slope

DOT to Present Two-Way Protected Bike Path for PPW Tonight

By Ben Fried | Apr 16, 2009 | 11 Comments

Tonight, at a transportation committee meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 6, DOT will present plans for a two-way protected bike path along Prospect Park West, from Union Street to Bartel Pritchard Square. The proposal would reduce the number of traffic lanes on the high-speed thoroughfare from three to two, according to the meeting agenda. Not […]

Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

How fast do cars travel on Prospect Park West? Criminally fast. All the time. Members of Park Slope Neighbors clocked cars routinely exceeding the 30 mph speed limit — including one sociopath racing at 65 mph — during a ten-minute stretch earlier this month. Prospect Park West and Eighth Avenue form a one-way pair funneling […]

Livable Streets Community News: Mapping Hotspots, Getting Results

By Lily Bernheimer | Mar 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

A workshop participant diagrammed these traffic-calming proposals for Bartel Pritchard Square. If you want to use the Livable Streets Community site to organize in your neighborhood, this week we’ve got a great example of what you can do with your group. On February 7, Brooklyn’s Park Slope Civic Council put on a workshop to introduce […]

A Broken Hip and the Merits of Scooters

By Alex Marshall | Feb 13, 2009 | 47 Comments

"Ouch" was my first thought, as I lay on the ice in my building’s parking lot, my scooter and black shoulder bag some feet away from me. What I would later learn was a broken hip screamed for my attention in a strange but compelling new language. My second thought was, "It’s not like you […]

Victim of Carroll Street Crash in Critical Condition

By Ben Fried | Feb 9, 2009 | 1 Comment

Commenter Don Wiss gives this update on the condition of the man hit by a car at the intersection of Carroll and Eighth Avenue last week, and the circumstances of the crash: I have learned that the 57 year old man is my next door neighbor on 1st Street below 8th Ave. He commutes to […]

To NYPD, Anyone Outside a Car Is Asking for It

By Brad Aaron | Feb 4, 2009 | 28 Comments

The following is an eyewitness account from a tipster who came upon the aftermath of Monday’s driver-pedestrian collision on Carroll Street and Eighth Avenue in Park Slope. The victim, a 57-year-old man, was in critical condition Monday afternoon, and police have no new information as of this writing. NYPD would not release a name. At […]

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