Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Remember her? Queens Borough President Donovan Richards reappointed Kim Ohanian to Community Board 7.

Friday’s Headlines: Who Will Stop Kim Ohanian? Edition

By Streetsblog | Aug 9, 2019 | 13 Comments

Streetsblog offers a step-by-step guide for any Queens Community Board 7 member who has the guts to make a motion to kick the street safety pariah off the panel. Plus all the other news by clicking the headline above.

There used to be a protected bike lane here — and there will be again! Photo: Eve Kessler

EXCLUSIVE: City Will Restore Protected Lanes on Dyckman Street

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 25, 2019 | 40 Comments

The city will restore a protected bike route on Dyckman Street in Upper Manhattan — almost one year after the Department of Transportation hastily removed the vital life-saving roadway design.

A rendering from the city's East Side Coastal Resiliency plan shows the East River waterfront.

Lower East Side ‘Resiliency’ Plan Hits New Potholes

By Eve Kessler | Jul 23, 2019 | 11 Comments

Electeds, residents demand independent review of proposal that digs up a park and endangers cyclists while sparing a highway.

The city needs even more of these kinds of protected bike lanes. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Cyclists Demand More Bike Lanes, Less Community Boards and Even Some Roads of their Own

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 18, 2019 | 9 Comments

One hundred miles of protected bike lanes in two years. No cars on some key routes for cyclists. Less engagement with community boards. And no more delays in life-saving road redesigns "for non-transportation-related political reasons." It's a start.

DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg showed off the new 2023 map for Citi Bike on Tuesday in the Bronx. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

BREAKING: Citi Bike Expansion Revealed — And It’s a Slow Rollout

By Gersh Kuntzman and Dave Colon | Jul 15, 2019 | 34 Comments

Some neighborhoods won't get Citi Bike until 2023 — and some won't get it at all (sorry, Bay Ridge).

This sign now greets cyclists as they simply try to get from Downtown Brooklyn to DUMBO. Photo: Daniel Hopkins

UNBELIEVABLE! DOT Adds Parking to Car-Choked DUMBO

By Daniel Hopkins | Jun 14, 2019 | 32 Comments

Pedestrian-packed and car-clogged Washington Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood has been converted to a one-way between Front and York streets — a change spurred by a two-year effort by a neighborhood resident that will actually add more cars and more danger to the roadway.

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