Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Sunset Park

Council Member Carlos Menchaca speaks to the crowd last night. Photo: Teka-Lark Lo

DOT Shows Fourth Avenue Bike Lane Concept in Sunset Park

By David Meyer | May 12, 2017 | 5 Comments

DOT reps brought the conceptual design for a redesign of Fourth Avenue with protected bike lanes to Sunset Park last night, following a similar event in Park Slope last week.

To keep making progress on traffic safety, redesigns as substantial as this protected bike lane planned for Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn will have to be implemented citywide. Image: NYC DOT

DOT Shows Its Plan to Get the Reconstruction of 4th Avenue Right

By Ben Fried | May 3, 2017 | 35 Comments

Fourth Avenue is far and away the most viable potential bike route linking Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, and Park Slope, but it's still scary to ride on, with no designated space for cycling. At 4.5 miles long, a protected bike lane would make the reconstructed Fourth Avenue one of the most important two-way streets for bicycle travel in the city, connecting dense residential neighborhoods to jobs and schools.

Instead of its current plan for Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue (top), DOT is considering a design that includes protected bike lanes. Image: DOT

DOT Is Getting Serious About Protected Bike Lanes for 4th Avenue

By David Meyer | Mar 16, 2017 | 22 Comments

DOT will present a redesign for Brooklyn's 4th Avenue with protected bike lanes from 65th Street to Dean Street. It's an important shift from earlier plans that called for casting the current street design in concrete without adding bike infrastructure.

DOT added eighteen miles of protected lanes to this map in 2016, but NYC will never have cohesive citywide network of safe bike routes without protected bike lanes on major streets like Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue. Map: Jon Orcutt

If de Blasio Is Serious About Vision Zero, 4th Ave Will Get a Protected Bike Lane

By David Meyer | Dec 16, 2016 | 18 Comments

In 2017, will City Hall be more committed to ambitious street redesigns that save lives? An early litmus test will be Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn -- which is ripe for a protected bike lane but is currently in line for much more modest changes from NYC DOT.

Carlos Menchaca Wants to Make Fourth Avenue Protected Bike Lane a Reality

By David Meyer | Aug 24, 2016 | 10 Comments

With DOT preparing a major capital project for Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue next year, it’s now or never for a protected bike lane on this important route linking Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Park Slope, and Downtown Brooklyn. Fortunately, local Council Member Carlos Menchaca has been on the case for months, talking with local residents, community groups, and DOT about how the Fourth Avenue […]

No Charges for Driver Who Killed 72-Year-Old Cyclist in Sunset Park

By Brad Aaron | Aug 7, 2015 | 29 Comments

A motorist killed a senior on a bike under the Gowanus Expressway on a Sunset Park street where drivers are routinely involved in high-speed crashes. The crash happened Wednesday at around 5:30 p.m. Rigoberto Diaz, 72, was traveling westbound against traffic on 48th Street and attempting to turn left onto Third Avenue when a driver traveling northbound […]

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