The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) launched a Neighborhood Slow Zone program this fall that reduces speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph and adds safety measures, such as speed bumps, within a select area. The first and currently only existing Slow Zone in the city was created in the Claremont section of the Bronx in late November. Now several neighborhoods in Brooklyn are applying for their own Neighborhood Slow Zones, hoping to make their streets safer.
With less than a year to go before opening night, residents are worried about the traffic and parking problems that will come with the new arena.
The Brooklyn Paper reports that a group of seven workers have filed a lawsuit against Atlantic Yards on Tuesday, accusing developer Bruce Ratner of setting up a ‘sham’ job-training program that gave them false promises [...]
Rapper Jay Z, a minority stakeholder in the Brooklyn Nets, gave questionable employment numbers for the new stadium in an interview with Rosanna Scotto of Channel 5′s “Good Day New York.” Salon explains: “What do you [...]
Filmmakers Hawley and Galinsky fought for their community in their own way, by dedicating seven and half years to making the documentary "Battle for Brooklyn" about the Atlantic Yards development. The film won the Grand Chameleon Award at the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival.
By Todd Stone At the intersection of Dean Street and 6th Avenue yesterday, a U-Haul truck was parked outside of what used to be Freddy’s, a legendary Prospect Heights bar that served its last round [...]
After Prospect Heights resident Daniel Goldstein relented and took a $3 million buyout to vacate his condo, Forest City Ratner thought they were in the clear to begin razing properties to make way for their [...]
Websites and blogs dedicated to opposing the Atlantic Yards project have published myriad opinions on Daniel Goldstein’s $3 million payout to vacate his apartment. Brooklyn Speaks, a website advocating that Atlantic Yards must work for [...]
Freddy’s Bar, one of the most vocal opponents of the Atlantic Yards project, will be moving to new digs in the Gowanus/Park Slope area at Fourth Avenue and Union Street. Bar loyalists had earlier threatened [...]
The ground is broken on the Atlantic Yards building project, but not everyone’s come to terms. A mystery protestor had his say today, hacking into a sign on Flatbush Avenue and giving the proverbial middle finger [...]
Monday, February 6, 2012
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