UPDATE: Second Child Run Down and Killed in East New York — Driver Arrested
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The victim was in a crosswalk.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about East New York
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.
Commercial Driver Kills 81-Year-Old Woman on Atlantic Avenue
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Of 20 pedestrians killed on NYC surface streets in 2017, at least 13 were seniors.
Basic Pedestrian Upgrades Coming to Conduit Blvd, But No Bike Infrastructure
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Last month, DOT revealed its plan to make Conduit Boulevard less of a barrier between neighborhoods near the southeast Brooklyn-Queens border [PDF]. With better, more frequent pedestrian crossings, the project should make it easier for residents to get from one side of Conduit to the other, but the design doesn’t include any bike infrastructure and leaves […]