Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Board Reform

Want a Seat on Your Community Board? There’s Still Time.

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2009 | 13 Comments

If you want to join a Manhattan community board and haven’t yet filed an application, you have until tomorrow. Manhattan has the earliest (and by far the most well-publicized) deadline of the five boroughs, so no need to panic if you intend to apply elsewhere. As regular readers know, community boards often represent the front […]

We Are the Community Board Cranks We’ve Been Waiting For

By Brad Aaron | Nov 21, 2008 | 10 Comments

If you want to see more of this, and less of this, at the community board level, Transportation Alternatives is making it easier to apply for a spot on your own neighborhood CB. Next Monday, November 24, TA will host the "Community Board Join-Up Jammy-Jam" at the offices of The Open Planning Project. There will […]

CB12 Transpo Committee Avoids Action on Dyckman, Everything Else

By Brad Aaron | Oct 7, 2008 | 8 Comments

Proposed Dyckman Street redesign, presented by citizens to the CB12 Transpo Committee last February For the third time this year, residents of Inwood and Washington Heights Monday night presented the Community Board 12 Traffic and Transportation Committee with a vision for a traffic-calmed Dyckman Street. One with a separated bike lane connecting the Henry Hudson […]

Foes of a Car-Free Trial in Prospect Park Demand Environmental Review

By Ben Fried | Oct 2, 2008 | 32 Comments

In another case of 1970s-era environmental law being turned on its head, Brooklyn Community Boards 7 and 14 are demanding that the city conduct an environmental review before implementing a proposed, three month car-free trial in Prospect Park next summer. At a press event this morning attended by 19 people near the Park Circle entrance […]

CB12 Derails Greenmarket, Approves Parking Request Unanimously

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2008 | 18 Comments

More parking means more cars, congestion and noise for Dyckman Street. Says CB12: "Bring it." Citing fears that it would disrupt the neighborhood and rouse illegally parked motorists from their beds on Sunday mornings, Community Board 12 Tuesday night tabled a recommendation for a new Greenmarket in Washington Heights. Minutes later, without discussion, the board […]

CB2 Chairman Punts Queens Greenway Vote Over Loss of Parking

By Streetsblog | May 9, 2008 | 25 Comments

From Transportation Alternatives’ Queens Committee Chair Mike Heffron: At the Queens Community Board 2 general meeting on Thursday, May 1, with no vote by board members, Chair Joe Conley delayed the board’s input on the Department of Transportation’s planned pedestrian and cyclist improvements to Vernon Boulevard, an important link in the proposed Queens East River […]

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