Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Prospect Heights

DOT to Present Ideas for Brooklyn’s Most Notorious Intersection

By Ben Fried | Oct 21, 2008 | 4 Comments

The confluence of Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth Avenues is a traffic nightmare of epic proportions right smack next to a huge transit hub and shopping center. (We hear some sort of arena and housing complex might get built there too.) Crossing the street here is an unwelcome adventure for thousands of pedestrians every day, and […]

Eyes on the Street: A Refuge on Vanderbilt

By Ben Fried | Jun 2, 2008 | 34 Comments

A tipster sends along these fresh shots of construction on Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. The new pedestrian refuges give the street a geometry very similar to what we saw on Broadway in Williamsburg two weeks ago. Below, the remnants of old trolley tracks get unearthed. We’re told the foreman says his crew is having […]

DOT’s 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 8 Comments

Print this DocumentNinth Street at Eighth Avenue in Park Slope, outside of Dizzy’s Diner. The Department of Transportation’s plan for pedestrian safety, traffic-calming and bike lane for Park Slope’s 9th Street is causing quite a bit of anxiety. Some of this angst, clearly, has been generated due to DOT’s failure to bring community stakeholders into […]

Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 12 Comments

As noted elsewhere, tonight the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 will consider a plan by DOT to redesign 9th Street from Third Avenue to Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Ninth Street is a very wide street for the number of vehicles that actually use it. Overly wide streets may tend to […]

Atlantic Yards Hearing Set for… When You’re Out of Town

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2006 | 9 Comments

The view up Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, looking northward. Before Frank Gehry and After. Renderings by Jonathan Cohn, BrooklynViews The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Forest City Ratner’s "Atlantic Yards" project in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn was released today. It can be found here on the Empire State Development Corporation’s web site. The release of this […]

Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 29, 2006 | No Comments

Continuing to ask the questions that don’t seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report’s Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner’s massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Yesterday, Oder questioned the Empire State Development Corporation’s […]

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