Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Downtown Brooklyn

Fixing Jay Street Starts With Cracking Down on Illegal Parking

By Stephen Miller | Mar 11, 2014 | 7 Comments

Jay Street, the north-south route often overshadowed by nearby car-clogged Adams Street and Flatbush Avenue, is a major artery in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, flush with pedestrians going to and from the subway and cyclists heading to the Manhattan Bridge. It’s also overrun with illegally-parked drivers, creating an obstacle course for anyone trying to navigate […]

Monday: Reimagine the Mess That Is Jay Street

By Ben Fried | Mar 7, 2014 | 5 Comments

It’s filled with double-parked cars. On just about every block, drivers stand illegally in bus stops, block the bike lane, and make illegal U-turns. If you’ve ever walked to jury duty in Brooklyn or biked over the Manhattan Bridge, you know Jay Street is chaos incarnate. What can be done? Well, here’s a chance to […]

Cyclist Struck in the Bronx Today Is Second Fatality in Past Two Weeks

By Brad Aaron | Oct 30, 2013 | No Comments

A cyclist was struck and killed by a driver this morning in the Bronx, and EV Grieve reports that a restaurant worker who was hit by a motorist last week while biking in Brooklyn died from his injuries. Today’s crash occurred in Claremont. NYPD and published reports say Walter Ayala, 36, was traveling west on St. […]

Feds Reject All Three NYC Applications for Latest Round of TIGER Grants

By Stephen Miller | Sep 5, 2013 | 6 Comments

This morning, U.S. DOT announced the winners in the latest round of its highly-competitive TIGER grant program. While upstate New York won grants for two projects — a highway teardown in Rochester and a complete streets project in Olean — New York City missed out, with applications for ferry improvements, a greenway connection in the Bronx, and […]

Council Candidates at Fort Greene Forum Agree: Don’t Touch Parking

By Stephen Miller | Jul 19, 2013 | 33 Comments

If you were hoping for inspiring leadership from the City Council on transportation issues after the next election, you may want to look somewhere other than District 35, which covers the neighborhoods just east of downtown Brooklyn. Two-thirds of households in the district are car-free, according to the 2000 Census. But while most candidates supported traffic calming […]

DOT Proposes Striping Adjustments for Manhattan Bridge Bike Approach

By Stephen Miller | Apr 22, 2013 | 14 Comments

To make biking between Brooklyn and Manhattan safer and more appealing, one thing that needs to be addressed is access to the Manhattan Bridge from downtown Brooklyn. With the high volume of traffic between the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, and local streets, the area can be both dangerous and confusing, especially […]

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