Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Red Hook

Temporary Red Hook Greenway Plan Looks Better Than the Permanent One

By Amanda Meth | Oct 16, 2015 | 12 Comments

Eventually, New York City intends to build a biking and walking path along the Red Hook waterfront, one link in the longer Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. It’s going to be several years before that project gets built, so in the meantime DOT plans to make streets a few blocks inland safer for biking and walking. The […]

Citi Bike Could Expand to 86th Street This Summer

By Stephen Miller | May 4, 2015 | 20 Comments

It looks like some parts of Manhattan north of 59th Street could be getting Citi Bike sooner than previously expected. At a town hall hosted by Council Member Helen Rosenthal last week, DOT Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione said Citi Bike would expand to 86th Street by August or September, and to 110th Street “probably in March,” […]

City Planning Department Suggests Safer Streets, Better Buses for Red Hook

By Stephen Miller | Jan 16, 2015 | 11 Comments

Cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and lacking direct subway access, Red Hook can feel like an isolated part of Brooklyn. A study from the Department of City Planning, released last November, calls for expanded pedestrian space, new bus service to Manhattan, and bicycle and pedestrian safety fixes throughout the […]

311 Is a Joke: NYPD Ignores Bike Lane-Blocking Big Rigs in Red Hook

By Brad Aaron | Jun 10, 2014 | 45 Comments

In the space of a few hours this afternoon, one cyclist’s experience, chronicled in real time on Twitter, summed up NYPD’s indifference to keeping bike lanes clear of motor vehicles. At 8:00 this morning, Anna Zivarts encountered a flatbed tractor-trailer parked in the two-way Imlay/Summit Street bike lane in Red Hook. When that truck and a […]

Will DA Ken Thompson Investigate Killing of 14-Year-Old Nicholas Soto?

By Brad Aaron | Jun 3, 2014 | 1 Comment

Following the vehicular killing of 14-year-old Nicholas Soto in Red Hook Monday morning, anonymous police sources were quick to blame the victim, though the crash happened near a school bus and sent Soto through the air, witnesses said. According to press accounts, NYPD won’t say if the driver who struck Soto was speeding through an […]

NYPD Fails to Charge Driver Who Killed a Child in Red Hook This Morning

By Brad Aaron | Jun 2, 2014 | 138 Comments

A motorist killed a teenager in Red Hook this morning. Nicholas Soto, 14, was crossing Lorraine Street at Hicks Street at around 7:00 when the driver of a BMW sedan slammed into him. From WNBC: Witnesses said the force of the impact flung the boy up in the air and over a fence. Millie Mendez […]

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