Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Board Reform

Brewer Asks Community Boards to Identify Dangerous Places for Walking

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2014 | 2 Comments

When it comes to street safety improvements, New York’s community boards are usually in a position where they react to proposals from NYC DOT. Now, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer could turn that dynamic on its head: She’s asked each board’s district manager to identify three traffic safety hotspots, saying that she’ll work with city […]

Video: Drivers Endanger Lives on Morningside Avenue as CB 10 Dithers

By Brad Aaron | Jan 21, 2014 | 5 Comments

While Manhattan Community Board 10 fails to take action, proposed measures to make Morningside Avenue safer for pedestrians continue to languish. Among other changes, DOT has proposed restriping Morningside between 116th Street and 126th Street from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction with a center striped median, concrete pedestrian islands and […]

Harlem’s CB 10 Continues Assault on Safer Streets and Better Buses

By Stephen Miller | Dec 12, 2013 | 11 Comments

According to Harlem’s Community Board 10, there is apparently no such thing as a street redesign worth pursuing. Over the course of two-and-a-half hours Tuesday night, members of the board’s transportation committee declined to support a road diet for Morningside Avenue, attacked a community-based street safety plan installed on Mount Morris Park West, and asked […]

Starting Tonight, Learn How You Can Join Your Local Community Board

By Stephen Miller | Dec 5, 2013 | 4 Comments

Tuesday’s vote at Manhattan Community Board 7 is a reminder that the road to livable streets progress often goes through the local community board. With that in mind, Transportation Alternatives is kicking off a series of community board join-up meetings this week, where you can apply to serve on your local board. Community boards, while […]

On Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn CB 6 Prioritizes Left Turns Over People’s Lives

By Stephen Miller | Jun 14, 2013 | 40 Comments

Brooklyn Community Board 6 tossed aside years of community activism and months of public meetings about safety improvements on Fourth Avenue Wednesday night, voting against a DOT proposal to calm traffic and expand pedestrian space on one of the borough’s deadliest streets. The board not only rejected a resolution in support of the plan but also passed a […]

Teresa Toro is Back in the Saddle at Community Board 1

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 11, 2009 | 4 Comments

Here’s some good news: The Brooklyn Paper reports that livable streets advocate Teresa Toro has been reinstated as chair of the transportation committee at Brooklyn Community Board 1.

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