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Tonight: Help Shape the Future of Fort Greene’s Fowler Square
NYC DOT, Council Member Tish James, Community Board 2, and the Fulton Area Business Alliance are hosting a community workshop tonight to gather ideas for a new plaza at Fowler Square -- the triangle formed by Fulton Street, Lafayette Avenue, and South Elliot Place in Fort Greene. In addition to lending your expertise as the new public space takes shape, this is an important one to turn out for because a handful of project opponents have managed to commandeer past meetings.
February 16, 2012
You Can Finally Walk to Grand Army Plaza Without Fear
Gathering at the new public space beneath the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza this morning, city officials and community leaders celebrated the reclamation of asphalt for people at the crossroads of Brooklyn. One of the borough's iconic places is finally a destination that people can get to comfortably, thanks to a slate of pedestrian and bike improvements NYC DOT completed this summer.
November 9, 2011
Sadik-Khan Announces a Bike-Share Program That’s Big Enough to Succeed
Addressing a plaza full of reporters at Madison Square this afternoon, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced that the city is entering the next phase of its initiative to launch a public bike system stretching from the Upper West Side to Bedford Stuyvesant. The system will be run by Alta Bike Share and consist of about 600 stations with 10,000 bicycles, creating a network of comparable size and density to bike-share systems in cities like London and Paris.
September 14, 2011
Revealed: Council Member Tish James Tells Us Where She’s Been Biking
Streetsblog caught up with council members Tish James and Brad Lander for a few minutes at Saturday's "Building Bridges Bike Day" in Grand Army Plaza. James and Lander represent districts with some of the highest bicycling rates in the city, and they're getting some mileage out of the local bike infrastructure themselves: Lander arrived via bike, and James told us about one of her first ventures cycling the streets of her district.
August 15, 2011
Saturday: Tish James Gets the Word Out on Bike-Ped Unity
Brooklyn Council Member Letitia James wants cyclists and pedestrians to get along. This Saturday, she's hosting what she hopes will be the first annual "Building Bridges Bike Day" at Grand Army Plaza.
August 11, 2011
LIRR’s Brooklyn Bunker: More Extreme Than NYPD Counterterror Guidelines
Brooklyn's new Long Island Rail Road terminal opened earlier this month to generally positive reviews for its airy interior. Outside the station? That's an entirely different matter.
January 21, 2010
Tish James: We Need to Improve NYC’s Most Unreliable Bus, But…
Yesterday the Straphangers Campaign awarded Brooklyn's B44 the Schleppie Award in recognition of its status as the most unreliable bus route in the city. Over 20 percent of B44 buses, which run on the Nostrand Avenue corridor, arrive either bunched together or very far apart. About 42,000 people endure the route's maddening inconsistency every weekday.
November 6, 2009
Council Members Urge Bloomberg to Order Car-Free Prospect Park Trial
Last month, as school-age volunteers presented 10,001 signatures in support of a car-free Prospect Park, three City Council Members -- David Yassky, Bill de Blasio and Letitia James -- issued a letter to Mayor Bloomberg requesting a three-month car-free pilot program. The full text appears below.
October 7, 2008
Bikes in Buildings: So Easy, So Effective
With the fallout from Wall Street taking a toll on city coffers, Mayor Bloomberg has a lot of tough calls to make. The "Bikes in Buildings" bill [PDF] is not one of them. It's a lay-up -- a simple rule change that promises big gains for bike
commuting. The bill, also known as Intro 38, would require commercial
landlords to allow tenants to bring bikes inside buildings. No storage
requirements attached.
September 24, 2008
Youth Advocates Deliver 10,000 Letters Calling For Car-Free Prospect Park
Youth advocate Oswald Bowman kicks things off at yesterday's rally for a car-free Prospect Park.
September 16, 2008