Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Fort Greene

What If Lafayette Avenue Had a Protected Bike Lane and Ped Refuges?

By Noah Kazis | Jan 24, 2012 | 16 Comments

Hilda Cohen, Ali Loxton and 1,600 petition-signers are asking for a painted bike lane and a road diet on Brooklyn’s Lafayette Avenue: They’re hoping to calm traffic and improve the area’s bike network by turning one traffic lane into a bike lane, and they helped persuade Brooklyn Community Board 2 to ask NYC DOT to […]

CB 2 Committee Asks DOT to Study Lafayette Avenue Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Jan 18, 2012 | 6 Comments

It only took Hilda Cohen and Ali Loxton ten weeks to collect 1,600 signatures supporting a traffic-calming redesign, including a bike lane, for Brooklyn’s Lafayette Avenue. Yesterday evening they took their petition to the transportation committee of Community Board 2 and made their case. The result: a 9-1 committee vote asking DOT to study Cohen […]

1,400 Signatures Put Lafayette Avenue Bike Lane Back on Agenda

By Noah Kazis | Jan 13, 2012 | 21 Comments

A Brooklyn bike lane scuttled during last winter’s anti-bike frenzy is back on the agenda thanks to some intrepid citizen activism. More than 1,400 people have signed a petition to paint a bike lane on Lafayette Avenue, reports the New York Times’ The Local blog, and the local community board will be revisiting the issue […]

Eyes on the Street: Bus Stop Ravaged By Curb-Jumping Motorist

By Ben Fried | Jan 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

In what’s starting to be an annual tradition, Streetsblog’s first reader-submitted photo of 2012 shows a bus stop pole brought low by the impact of a motor vehicle. 2011 got off to a similar start. This is the B69 stop at Vanderbilt and Atlantic, a stone’s throw from where Forest City Ratner and the Empire […]

Clinton Hill Celebrates Putnam Plaza With Dance Party

By Noah Kazis | Sep 27, 2011 | 3 Comments

Last Monday, DOT workers laid down gravel and epoxy on top of the asphalt on a block of Putnam Avenue, transforming the area between Fulton Street and Grand Avenue from through street to public space. On Sunday, Clinton Hill came out to celebrate. The opening weekend block party was captured by local documentary maker Adele […]

Jim Brennan Wants to Force Ratner to Build More Atlantic Yards Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jul 7, 2011 | 21 Comments

Could the state legislature get in on the costly, congestion-inducing parking minimum game? And could they do it at the site of Brooklyn’s biggest transit hub? Under a proposal by Assembly Member James Brennan, that’s exactly what would happen. Brennan is working on legislation that would force Forest City Ratner to build more off-street parking […]

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