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Why Is NYPD Defending Hit-and-Run Drivers to the Press?
Update: The victim in the Rockaway Parkway crash was identified as Alex Davis, according to DNAinfo. Police said he was hit by the driver of a Ford Mustang. The driver remained at large as of November 7.
November 4, 2014
Slow Zone, Next Round of Bike Routes on Tap for Brownsville, East New York
The fledgling bike lane network in Brownsville and East New York will continue to grow. The second of three rounds of painted on-street bike lanes -- mapped out in a planning process initiated by neighborhood residents -- is set to be installed by the end of the year, pending the support of Community Boards 5 and 16 later this month.
June 11, 2014
Eyes on the Street: Brownsville Celebrates Its New Bike Lanes
They may be just paint, but bike lanes and sharrows on New Lots Avenue, Pitkin Avenue, Mother Gaston Boulevard, Hendrix Street, and Schenck Avenue are the first step toward implementing a community-based plan for better bicycling in Brownsville. This morning, about 35 people took part in a celebratory ride of the neighborhood's first bike lanes organized by the Brownsville Partnership.
July 23, 2013
Brownsville Will Get Bike Lanes After Supportive Vote from CB 16
Good news out of Brooklyn last night: After a community-driven process that started in 2011, Community Board 16 voted to support painted bike lanes and sharrows on 15 miles of Brownsville streets.
February 27, 2013
Brooklyn CB 16 Committee Votes to Bring Bike Lanes to Brownsville
The transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 16 last night voted in favor of a plan to stripe Brownsville's first bike lanes, reports Nupur Chaudhury of the local non-profit Brownsville Partnership.
January 4, 2013
East New York and Brownsville on the Cusp of Getting New Bike Lanes
After more than a year of collaboration between residents, community groups, DOT, and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the first project in a new round bike lanes for Brownsville and East New York is almost in the books and ready to be installed next year. The proposal is for simple lines on the pavement -- not protected bike lanes -- but, along with a road diet on Pennsylvania Avenue, it would bring safer conditions to parts of eastern Brooklyn that currently have next to no bike infrastructure.
November 29, 2012
Envisioning a Neighborhood Bike Plan for East New York and Brownsville
After local residents and community organizations began organizing to bring bike lanes to East New York and Brownsville last year, NYC DOT is developing a plan to stripe the first bike routes directly through these neighborhoods, and more could be on the way.
June 21, 2012
Brownsville Residents Push For Neighborhood’s First Bike Lanes
Brownsville wants safer streets for biking.
November 8, 2011
Crucial Details Missing in NYPD Account of Crash That Killed Theauther Love
On Friday morning, a traffic enforcement agent driving a marked NYPD vehicle struck and killed the Reverend Theauther Love, 87, as he was walking across Eastern Parkway in Brownsville. Police failed to notify the victim's family this weekend, according to friends and relatives. But NYPD did issue their standard exculpatory response when the driver in a fatal crash is sober and stays at the scene -- "no criminality is suspected" -- even though they have yet to disclose details like the driver's speed and who had the right of way at the time of the collision.
November 7, 2011
NYCHA Chairman: Parking Minimums “Working Against Us”
Leaders in New York City's public housing community are interested in transforming city-owned superblocks into mixed-use, mixed-income communities that engage with the pedestrian realm. There are of course many obstacles to this kind of ambitious project, but only one was identified specifically in a Municipal Art Society panel on the topic last Friday: the city's own parking requirements.
October 17, 2011