Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Joe Lentol

Construction Has Begun on the Pulaski Bridge Bikeway

By Brad Aaron | Mar 24, 2015 | 6 Comments

DOT has started work on the much-anticipated Pulaski Bridge bikeway, which will more than double the space for people walking and biking on the bridge. The Pulaski Bridge spans Newtown Creek, linking Greenpoint and Long Island City. Right now people who cross the bridge on foot and by bike are crammed into one eight-foot lane next to […]

Pulaski Bridge Bikeway Likely Delayed Until Next Year

By Stephen Miller | Oct 8, 2014 | 13 Comments

One of the most anticipated livable streets projects of 2014 probably won’t get built until next year. NYC DOT’s plan to convert a traffic lane on the Pulaski Bridge to a two-way protected bike path, which would relieve crowding on the bridge’s narrow bike-ped path and calm traffic heading toward McGuinness Boulevard in Brooklyn, is […]

McGuinness Boulevard Is NYC’s Third 25 MPH Arterial Slow Zone

By Stephen Miller | Apr 22, 2014 | 6 Comments

Ask a Greenpoint resident to name the neighborhood’s most dangerous street, and they’ll likely point to McGuinness Boulevard, an infamous speedway that splits the neighborhood in half. Today, it became the city’s third “arterial slow zone” to receive a 25 mph speed limit, retimed traffic signals to discourage speeding, and focused enforcement. The arterial slow […]

Overcoming Skepticism, Lentol Joins Families to Back 20 MPH Speed Limit

By Stephen Miller | Mar 19, 2014 | 6 Comments

Yesterday, members of Families for Safe Streets traveled to Albany to speak with legislators about legislation to lower NYC speed limits and increase automated enforcement of dangerous driving. They came away with an early victory: Assembly Member Joe Lentol of Brooklyn, a street safety ally who had been skeptical of a bill to lower the city’s default […]

Electeds Want MTA Onboard With Vision Zero After Latest Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron and Stephen Miller | Mar 3, 2014 | 6 Comments

Electeds and advocates called for changes at the MTA and for Mayor de Blasio to focus street safety resources on northern Brooklyn after another pedestrian was killed by a bus driver this weekend. Marisol Martinez, 21, was crossing Union Avenue at Meeker Street in Williamsburg with two other people at around 1:25 a.m. Saturday when […]

Lentol Wants 20 MPH Speed Limits on Big, Dangerous Brooklyn Streets

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2014 | 8 Comments

This afternoon, Assembly Member Joseph Lentol announced that he’s sent a letter to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg asking for 20 mph speed limits on the busiest, deadliest roads in his district. “There are three main streets within my district that are notorious for speeders – McGuinness Boulevard, Kent Avenue, and Park Avenue,” Lentol wrote in […]

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