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Speak Up If You Think Bike-Share Belongs in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill
Remember the Fort Greene residents who complained last year that bike-share stations don't belong in their historic, landmarked neighborhood -- even though you can find cobalt-blue Volvos and banana-yellow, late-model Beemers taking up the curb on those same blocks?
April 22, 2013
Coalition Calls for Comprehensive Transpo Plan for Northwest Brooklyn
Choked by traffic, Downtown Brooklyn and its surrounding neighborhoods need a comprehensive agenda for transportation -- and the current ad hoc approach from the city and state isn't cutting it in the fast-growing area, says a coalition of community groups, elected officials, and advocates.
December 18, 2012
Council Members Use Downtown Brooklyn Parking Reform as Bargaining Chip
Parking reform for Downtown Brooklyn -- which would take the mild but worthwhile step of cutting the district's mandatory parking minimums in half -- went before a City Council subcommittee on Monday. The fate of the proposal now comes down to council members Tish James and Steve Levin, who represent the area. The two representatives are talking tough and trying to get DCP to do more -- but what they want has little to do with parking policy.
November 28, 2012
Barclays Center Opening Weekend Traffic: Not a Total Disaster
Many residents and elected leaders from the neighborhoods near the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights are letting out a sigh of relief after steeling for gridlock this weekend. Sellout crowds for the arena's first events -- three Jay-Z concerts -- did not completely overwhelm nearby neighborhoods with traffic, but the strain on local streets was still clear.
October 1, 2012
“Park Avenue Is Broken, And It Can Be Fixed”
Council Member Letitia James and Assembly Member Joseph Lentol joined local residents on Park Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday to push DOT and other city agencies to implement recommendations from the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Partnership's pedestrian safety plan. The plan calls for a set of pedestrian safety improvements and traffic enforcement measures to make Park Avenue less of a BQE service road and more of a neighborhood street.
September 11, 2012
Tonight: Help Shape the Future of Fort Greene’s Fowler Square
NYC DOT, Council Member Tish James, Community Board 2, and the Fulton Area Business Alliance are hosting a community workshop tonight to gather ideas for a new plaza at Fowler Square -- the triangle formed by Fulton Street, Lafayette Avenue, and South Elliot Place in Fort Greene. In addition to lending your expertise as the new public space takes shape, this is an important one to turn out for because a handful of project opponents have managed to commandeer past meetings.
February 16, 2012
You Can Finally Walk to Grand Army Plaza Without Fear
Gathering at the new public space beneath the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza this morning, city officials and community leaders celebrated the reclamation of asphalt for people at the crossroads of Brooklyn. One of the borough's iconic places is finally a destination that people can get to comfortably, thanks to a slate of pedestrian and bike improvements NYC DOT completed this summer.
November 9, 2011
Sadik-Khan Announces a Bike-Share Program That’s Big Enough to Succeed
Addressing a plaza full of reporters at Madison Square this afternoon, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced that the city is entering the next phase of its initiative to launch a public bike system stretching from the Upper West Side to Bedford Stuyvesant. The system will be run by Alta Bike Share and consist of about 600 stations with 10,000 bicycles, creating a network of comparable size and density to bike-share systems in cities like London and Paris.
September 14, 2011
Revealed: Council Member Tish James Tells Us Where She’s Been Biking
Streetsblog caught up with council members Tish James and Brad Lander for a few minutes at Saturday's "Building Bridges Bike Day" in Grand Army Plaza. James and Lander represent districts with some of the highest bicycling rates in the city, and they're getting some mileage out of the local bike infrastructure themselves: Lander arrived via bike, and James told us about one of her first ventures cycling the streets of her district.
August 15, 2011
Saturday: Tish James Gets the Word Out on Bike-Ped Unity
Brooklyn Council Member Letitia James wants cyclists and pedestrians to get along. This Saturday, she's hosting what she hopes will be the first annual "Building Bridges Bike Day" at Grand Army Plaza.
August 11, 2011