Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Dov Hikind

Anti-transit NIMBYs protesting better B82 bus service take a moment to wish Council Member Mark Treyger a happy birthday. Photo: @KalmanYeger

Will DOT and the MTA Prioritize Parking Over Tens of Thousands of B82 Riders?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 16, 2018 | 3 Comments

It looks like the MTA and DOT are altering the plan for B82 Select Bus Service to appease electeds who don't want room for bus riders on Kings Highway.

Marty Golden and 5 Democrats Want to Block Better Bus Service on Kings Highway

By David Meyer | Mar 22, 2018 | 74 Comments

The Southern Brooklyn pols are trying to nix bus lanes planned for the B82, one of the slowest bus routes in the borough.

Myth Busted: Safer Streets Are Not Slowing Emergency Responders

By Brad Aaron | Jan 3, 2013 | 9 Comments

A go-to NIMBY argument against safe street improvements is that bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, and ped refuge islands interfere with emergency responders. In 2009, one complainer at an event sponsored by then-Council Member Alan Gerson claimed that pedestrian islands on Grand Street “put lives in danger” by slowing down fire trucks and ambulances. Opponents of the […]

Requiem for Three Pedestrian Islands in Boro Park

By Ben Fried | Jul 1, 2011 | 12 Comments

For the historical record, here’s three minutes of rather dull video capturing the pedestrian refuges on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 46th Street in Brooklyn. When the camera pans right you can also see the intersection at 47th Street, where there’s another refuge. I took the footage at the tail end of the p.m. rush this […]

Maimonides Hospital, FDNY: Boro Park Ped Islands Don’t Slow Response Times

By Noah Kazis | Jun 9, 2011 | 11 Comments

Here’s something Marcia Kramer, Dov Hikind, and Marty Markowitz forgot to mention in all their accumulated lawsuit threats, media events, and TV coverage on the Fort Hamilton Parkway pedestrian refuges: FDNY and Maimonides hospital report that the project has not affected response times. In opposing the pedestrian islands, designed to calm traffic and provide a […]

Kramer and Hikind Exaggerate Victory in War on Pedestrians

By Ben Fried | Jun 1, 2011 | 14 Comments

Last night Marcia Kramer served up more of her unique brand of public service journalism, triumphantly reporting that the city will remove pedestrian safety measures designed to prevent seniors from getting killed and maimed in Borough Park traffic. Touring Fort Hamilton Parkway with Dov Hikind, the State Assembly rep who threatened last month to sue […]

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