Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Prospect Heights

Brooklyn CB Committees OK Un-protected 2-Way Bike Lane on Plaza Street

By Ben Fried | Apr 20, 2012 | 8 Comments

NYC DOT presented plans last night for an un-protected two-way bike lane on Plaza Street, which would enhance a critical hub in the Brooklyn bike network by defining space for contraflow riding, but fall short of providing safe cycling infrastructure for all ages. The transportation committee of Community Board 6 voted in favor of the project […]

How to Make Your Own Free Parking Near the Atlantic Yards Site

By Ben Fried | Jan 6, 2012 | 8 Comments

Via Norman Oder at Atlantic Yards Report, here’s a variety of parking scofflaw that we’ve never come across before on Streetsblog. In the video, an early morning car commuter, presumably someone working on the nearby Barclays Center arena project, apparently decides that the last parking space on this block of Pacific Street (between Sixth Avenue […]

How Many Obstacles Does It Take to Stop NYPD Sidewalk Parking?

By Ben Fried | Aug 11, 2011 | 26 Comments

This is the generous new sidewalk extension at the five-way intersection of Washington Avenue, Park Place, and Grand Avenue in Brooklyn. Here you can see bell bollards protecting the added pedestrian space between Washington, on the left, and Grand on the right. I live around the corner, and I can’t say enough about how much […]

Jim Brennan Wants to Force Ratner to Build More Atlantic Yards Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jul 7, 2011 | 21 Comments

Could the state legislature get in on the costly, congestion-inducing parking minimum game? And could they do it at the site of Brooklyn’s biggest transit hub? Under a proposal by Assembly Member James Brennan, that’s exactly what would happen. Brennan is working on legislation that would force Forest City Ratner to build more off-street parking […]

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My NYC Biking Story: Steve O’Neill

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 23, 2011 | No Comments

Prospect Heights resident Steve O’Neill has been biking for most of the 15 years he’s lived in New York City. Steve commutes daily to Columbus Circle, and last year he added a new leg to his trip. Every day he drops his son Beckett off at school in Park Slope, and the new Prospect Park […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Stripes on Washington Avenue

By Ben Fried | Jun 2, 2011 | 15 Comments

It looks like DOT is exercising its option to stripe a bike lane on Washington Avenue, imposing some order on street markings from Eastern Parkway to Atlantic Avenue. Previously it wasn’t really clear whether this part of Washington was one traffic lane or two traffic lanes in each direction, leading to a lot of double-parking, […]

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