Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Marty Markowitz

Three Myths From Marty About the PPW Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Oct 20, 2010 | 54 Comments

It’s showtime for the Prospect Park West bike lane, with a bike lane protest and a rally for the redesign coming up tomorrow morning. In a prelude to the big day, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is making some rounds in the media. The Brooklyn Paper and NY1 got some choice quotes from the beep, […]

Mischaracterizations From Marty Seep Into Vacca Op-Ed on PPW Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Aug 24, 2010 | 16 Comments

City Council Member Jimmy Vacca has made several public shows of support for street safety initiatives since taking over as chair of the transportation committee at the beginning of the year. To draw attention to the statewide complete streets bill, he stood with Speaker Christine Quinn at 23rd Street, using the Ninth Avenue bike lane […]

Brooklyn CB 1, CM Levin, Beep All Demand Less Parking at New Domino

By Noah Kazis | Apr 30, 2010 | 10 Comments

In an unusual turn of events, two Brooklyn politicians and one community board are pushing for less off-street parking at the New Domino development proposed for the Williamsburg waterfront. City Council Member Steve Levin and Borough President Marty Markowitz have recently bolstered a resolution from CB 1 calling for hundreds of fewer parking spaces. A […]

Reality Check: A Small Fraction of NYC Streets Have Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Apr 14, 2010 | 30 Comments

Kramer on the "already-congested" Prospect Park West. Cross motorhead journo Marcia Kramer with sidewalk-hogging Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz and this is the unholy offspring that you get: A skewed news segment on the proposed Prospect Park West bike lane, where facts don’t matter and wild assumptions go unchallenged. Kramer followed up last week’s hack-job on […]

Memo to Marty: Let’s Go Ahead and “Balance Out” Prospect Park West

By Ben Fried | Apr 12, 2010 | 32 Comments

Today’s Andrea Bernstein interview with Marty Markowitz (transcript here) is a must-read if you want to get inside the head of the Brooklyn Beep and see the borough through the tint of his windshield. Markowitz says he doesn’t want to "stigmatize" motorists. How about just slowing them down? The specific issue at hand is the […]

Marty Markowitz Derails Prospect Park West Bike Lane — For How Long?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 25, 2010 | 56 Comments

A city plan designed to make Prospect Park West safer and more accessible for cyclists and pedestrians has not materialized months after its promised delivery date, the Brooklyn Paper reports, and Brooklynites have Marty Markowitz to thank for it. A safer path to Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboudit! Photo: New York Post The borough president last year […]

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