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Community Forum on Atlantic Yards
Tuesday, September 12, Time?NYC College of Technology, 285 Jay Steet, Brooklyn.Community Forum on Atlantic Yards Project.
September 12, 2006
Easy Riders: Brooklyn Critical Mass Rolls With the NYPD
Here is a nice piece of correspondence from Streetsblog reader and Brooklyn Critical Mass rider Rich Krollman. If you have a photo or story that you'd like to see published on the blog, we really appreciate reader submissions. Send yours along by clicking "Eyes on the Street" in the upper left corner. We'll be improving our content submission functionality in the coming months, so keep an eye on that as well.
September 6, 2006
Street Quotes: Post-Labor Day Re-Acclimation
Overheard on Sunday afternoon in Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn where a boy of about five years of age waited impatiently to cross the street with his mother:
September 5, 2006
Signs of Crooked Pedestrian Priorities
A pedestrian crossing sign slants over the middle of Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, meant to remind drivers that human beings may try to cross the seven lanes of moving traffic on foot. It is little comfort to the pedestrians standing exposed on the 2 foot wide median noticing that the sign was recently run into.
August 30, 2006
The Suburbanization of NYC’s Waterfront
Recently, a bunch of us took a bike excursion along the East River waterfront from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn to the new Water Taxi Beach in Hunters Point, Queens. Traffic was light most of the way and street life relatively heavy.
August 28, 2006
Brooklyn Bridge’s SUV Ban Hidden in Plain Sight
It isn't just in California where SUV's are secretly banned from certain roadways. Right here in New York City, many SUVs are banned from the Brooklyn Bridge, but nobody seems to know it.
August 25, 2006
“Atlantic Yards” Public Hearing
Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.New York City Technical College (Klitgord Auditorium)285 Jay Street, Brooklyn
August 23, 2006
Having it Both Ways in the “Atlantic Yards” DEIS
Combing through the massive Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the "Atlantic Yards" project in Brooklyn, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has found at least four instances of the strange, Hamlet-like soliloquy, exemplified below.
August 14, 2006
Another Very Bad Week to Ride a Bike in NYC
In the wake of this morning's Midtown bike fatality, a correspondent reports:
August 10, 2006