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NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer
Yesterday, the Department of Transportation installed New York City's very first pedestrian countdown timer at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Kings Highway in Brooklyn. Gothamist, as usual, does a nice treatment of the story and roundup of the coverage.
November 3, 2006
T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing
Some reading ahead of tomorrow's big Transit-Oriented Development forum at NYU...
October 31, 2006
Brooklyn Critical Mass
Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, (Prospect Park, North) and Bklyn End of
Williamsburg Bridge Critical Mass
Brooklyn
October 27, 2006
Street Hockey: The New Stickball?
More evidence that hockey -- and livable streets -- aren't just "a white thing." From the New York Times' Metropolitan Diary (along with a photo sent in by the author)...
October 26, 2006
Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza
More public space for Grand Army Plaza: DOT says that it would give the street space highlighted in green to the Parks Department for use during public events and car-free hours in Prospect Park.
October 25, 2006
Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage
The Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association is holding a rally tomorrow in response to two horrific car killings in Boerum Hill in recent weeks. AABA has been fighting for years for more neighborhood-friendly traffic policies along the Avenue. Here are the details:
October 24, 2006
They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot
One of the more troublesome aspects of Forest City Enterprise's "Atlantic Yards" proposal is the developer's plan to create two rather huge, suburban mall-style surface parking lots on the eastern side of the project footprint. If all goes as planned there will 3,600 new parking spaces will be in place by 2012.
October 23, 2006
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight
The Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Inititiave is one of the most inspiring and visionary development projects going in New York City right now. The project is very grassroots. Over ten years ago, three Brooklyn residents, Brian McCormick, Milton Puryear and Meg Fellerath got it in their heads that Brooklyn's waterfront should have a bike path and linear park just as good as the popular Hudson River Greenway in Manhattan (see the rendering of Columbia Street at right).
October 12, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
A Streetsblog tipster notices that Prospect Park motorists seem to be unindoctrinated in the ways of the Litterbug:
October 9, 2006