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E-Bike Battery Swap Hub Backed by Con Edison Opens At Ebbets Field Apartments
Hundreds of delivery workers who live at the Crown Heights apartment complex now have access to fully charged e-bike batteries right outside their building.
July 22, 2025
MTA To Finally Untangle Notorious Brooklyn Subway Pinch Point
The MTA's new capital plan will finally unclog a notoriously slow-rolling segment of the subway in Central Brooklyn.
June 3, 2025
Mythbusting: Don’t Assume Orthodox Jews Only Drive — We Want Bike Lanes, Too
City planners too often choose not to put bike lanes in certain places based on the myth that Orthodox Jews don't use them.
October 30, 2024
Monday’s Headlines: Better Bedford Avenue Edition
A diverse group of 150 cyclists led a procession up the "spine of Brooklyn" to call for protected bike lanes on Bedford Avenue. Plus other news.
April 24, 2023
Activists Want a Protected Bike Lane on an Unsafe Stretch of Bedford Avenue
The Department of Transportation must add a protected bike lane on the dangerous stretch of Bedford Avenue between Flushing and Flatbush avenues, a major north-south spine that spans multiple neighborhoods in Brooklyn, a group of advocates led by a Black-run bike club is demanding.
March 22, 2023
DOT Commissioner Says She Feels Comfortable Riding on Unprotected Roads, But Newbie Cyclists Don’t
At a ceremonial ribbon-cutting of a new protected bike lane on Flatbush Avenue on Thursday, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg shrugged off concerns that the city's many unprotected bike lanes don't make cyclists feel comfortable.
November 5, 2020
Parking Over Bus Lanes? In One Brooklyn District, Pols Bow to Drivers
The race to succeed Jumaane Williams in the City Council features five candidates who support cars over buses.
April 22, 2019
City Fails Brooklyn Bus Riders With Giveaway to Car-Driving Minority
Parked cars block B45 buses along a key portion of the route, thanks to the city's failure to clear the public right of way.
January 7, 2019
Sanitation Says it Will Fire Worker Who Killed Pedestrian [UPDATE]
The city now says it will use an "administrative process" to fire the rogue employee.
December 4, 2018
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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Next Tuesday, September 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-year-old bike-share system.
September 5, 2017
