Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about East New York

A cop in the East Village kneeled on a man arrested for alleged social-distancing violations. Video showed that the officer punched the man while tackling him. Photo: Daquan Owens

Op-Ed: City Must Stop Racially Biased Policing — During COVID and Beyond

By Wilfredo Florentino | May 9, 2020 | No Comments

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

By Dave Colon | Feb 27, 2020 | No Comments

The victim was in a crosswalk.

The site of Abraham’s hit-and-run crash at Montauk and Sutter Avenue. Image: Google Streetview

Op-Ed: Communities of Color Need Protected Lanes, Too!

By Dave "Paco" Abraham | Jul 3, 2019 | 15 Comments

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.

A DOT rendering from the second phase of the Atlantic Avenue rebuild shows bike lanes along the median. Image: DOT

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Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long

By David Herman | Jun 24, 2019 | 11 Comments

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.

The parking-protected bike lanes would narrow the dangerously wide motor vehicle lanes on a stretch of Fountain Avenue in East New York. Image: DOT

DOT Proposes Protected Bike Lane Connecting East New York and Jamaica Bay

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2017 | 3 Comments

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.

A commercial driver struck and killed an 81-year-old woman in a crosswalk on Atlantic Avenue at Rockaway Avenue. The white line indicates the path of the victim -- it’s unknown which direction she was walking -- and the red arrow indicates the approximate path of the driver, according to NYPD. Image: Google Maps

Commercial Driver Kills 81-Year-Old Woman on Atlantic Avenue

By Brad Aaron | Mar 21, 2017 | No Comments

Of 20 pedestrians killed on NYC surface streets in 2017, at least 13 were seniors.

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