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Op-Ed: Pro-Development Message Downplays Gentrification Threat
Streetsblog has become the go-to place for a raging debate about housing policy!
October 1, 2019
Op-Ed: Density Is the Friend of Safe Streets and Transit
Why city transportation activists should seek alliances with pro-growth groups.
September 20, 2019
New York is Really Awesome When the Rich People Leave and Take their Cars on Vacation
Car owners are an entitled, selfish class of moochers — and it's time to stop catering to them by worrying about where they park their cars.
July 5, 2019
Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long
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.
June 24, 2019
SEE IT: Morning Carnage on Vanderbilt Avenue
A driver mowed down a lamppost at a busy Brooklyn corner Tuesday morning, shearing it off, an indication that someone was driving far too fast.
January 22, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Course Correction on the Dean Street Bike Lane
By the Barclays Center, the bike lane doesn't direct cyclists to cross the path of car traffic twice in one block anymore.
May 16, 2018
Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Next Tuesday, September 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-year-old bike-share system.
September 5, 2017
Behold the First Bike-Share Expansion Maps of 2017
DOT has released preliminary station locations for two areas in this year's Citi Bike expansion. The maps will be finalized by June, agency reps told the Brooklyn Community Board 9 transportation committee last night.
April 6, 2017
78th Precinct Honors Mike Ameri’s Commitment to Safe Streets
The Bergen Street bike lane between Sixth Avenue and Flatbush was unofficially christened the "Inspector Michael Ameri Bike Lane" yesterday in honor of the late commander of NYPD Highway Patrol.
June 1, 2016
Brooklyn Electeds to DOT: Put Safety First at Atlantic and Flatbush
About a dozen people braved the cold Saturday morning to call for pedestrian safety improvements at Brooklyn's Times Plaza and along the whole Atlantic Avenue corridor.
February 15, 2016