Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Prospect Heights

More Arterial Carnage: Driver Seriously Injures Woman on Atlantic [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Nov 21, 2014 | 41 Comments

Update: A witness to this crash contacted Streetsblog. His account has been added to the post. A motorist seriously injured a pedestrian on Atlantic Avenue at Washington Avenue in Brooklyn this morning. A witness, who didn’t want his name published, told Streetsblog he was crossing Atlantic with several other pedestrians when the crash occurred. “There’s […]

Eyes on the Street: The 78th Precinct Gets Its Bike Corral

By Stephen Miller | Oct 29, 2014 | 60 Comments

After a request from 78th Precinct commanding officer Captain Frank DiGiacomo, DOT has installed a four-rack bike corral in front of the precinct house on Bergen Street in Prospect Heights. N. Wayne Bailey, chair of the precinct’s community council, snapped photos of the new bike parking yesterday. The 78th Precinct has established a reputation for supporting livable […]

Eyes on the Street: The Evolution of the Bergen Street Protected Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Oct 1, 2014 | 31 Comments

What began as an ad hoc fix for a bike lane chronically clogged by cars has become permanent after DOT installed a block-long barrier on the Bergen Street bike lane in front of the 78th Precinct in Prospect Heights. It started more than two years ago when Ian Dutton moved some leftover ConEd cones a […]

Eyes on the Street: Sidewalks for Pedestrians at the 78th Precinct

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2014 | 20 Comments

Props to the 78th Precinct and commanding officer Michael Ameri for this one. Reader Wayne Bailey sends photos showing that the 78th is starting to get the sidewalk parking situation under control near the precinct house. Previously this block of Sixth Avenue was occupied by officers’ personal vehicles: It might seem like a small thing, […]

Imagining a New Atlantic Avenue for de Blasio’s New York

By John Petro | May 1, 2014 | 6 Comments

Atlantic Avenue is one of New York’s most prominent streets, and in most respects, it is completely broken. Stretching more than ten miles, Atlantic cuts through several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens while functioning mainly as an urban highway for private motorists and truckers making their way east, toward the Van Wyck and Long Island, or […]

Atlantic Yards Could Become Much Less Car-Centric

By Stephen Miller | Apr 29, 2014 | 24 Comments

Off-street parking for the Atlantic Yards project, which sits near one of the world’s great confluences of transit lines, was once projected to include space for as many as 3,670 cars. Now the number of parking spots could get chopped down to 2,876 or, in one scenario, a significantly less car-centric 1,200, according to a […]

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