Cops Are Hogging Public Space in Poor Communities for Parking They Don’t Need: Report
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The East New York Community Land Trust identifies 73 underused lots that it says could be developed into housing or commercial space.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about East New York
Op-Ed: City Must Stop Racially Biased Policing — During COVID and Beyond
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Mayor de Blasio's tone-deaf excuses for cops' bad behavior need to stop, too.
UPDATE: Second Child Run Down and Killed in East New York — Driver Arrested
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The victim was in a crosswalk.
Op-Ed: Communities of Color Need Protected Lanes, Too!
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Bike-infrastructure inequities among neighborhoods continue — which is hard to square with Mayor de Blasio's stated goal of knitting together the "two cities" of New York. The Department of Transportation must fix the problem.
Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long
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The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.
DOT Proposes Protected Bike Lane Connecting East New York and Jamaica Bay
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Building on the rollout of painted bike lanes in Brownsville and East New York that began in 2013, DOT is now planning for the area's first on-street protected lanes on Fountain Avenue, which would connect to the Jamaica Bay Greenway.