For those who live, work, or visit the neighborhoods below and around south of Prospect Park, have your voice heard and fill out this survey!
I just witnessed this Honda not paying attention likely texting while driving with fully blacked out tinted windows… plow over this delivery driver and wedged him under his bike and his bike was wedged under the car until he reversed off of it.
The driver drove off, no info exchanged. The deliverista walked hobbled to the side of the road, and walked his bike over to Popeyes and picked up his order.
I asked if he was alright or needed anything or the car info. He said he was fine. Unfortunately, this is likely all too common for delivery riders.
For anyone wondering how this is relevant to Flatbush: Linden Boulevard begins at Flatbush Avenue, and its Flatbush section is notorious for being unsafe, loud, dirty, and chronically bottlenecked at key intersections, making life worse for everyone who uses it or lives nearby.
While this redesign only affects a very specific stretch of Linden Boulevard, between Fountain and Conduit Avenues in East New York, it could be the beginning of something much bigger. I do not know what the long-term vision is for Linden Boulevard, but it is easy to imagine a broader transformation of the corridor into a true people-first public space rather than a six-lane, at-grade road that cuts Brooklyn in two.
It’s great that NYC is finally getting serious about trash with thousands of curbside Empire Bins replacing parking spots across the city.
But once again, Flatbush is being left out. Flatbush had almost a million complaints for trash on sidewalks in a single year, the highest of any ZIP code in NYC. On top of that, rat complaints in Community District 14 jumped ~57% year-over-year. It’s one of the worst-impacted neighborhoods in the entire city when it comes to trash.
Flatbush/Midwood’s median household income is about $82,330. Some of the neighborhoods like Greenwich Village/SoHo ($206,490), Fort Greene/Brooklyn Heights ($156,870), Woodside/Sunnyside ($97,370), and Crown Heights/Prospect Heights ($94,980) that are getting Empire Bins are much wealthier. But the bigger issue is that Flatbush isn’t being left out because it’s too rich or too poor; it’s being left out despite having one of the strongest need-based cases for better trash infrastructure.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to propose linking Grand Army Plaza with Prospect Park by closing a dangerous stretch of road between them.
The Citi Bike dock at the Church Avenue B/Q station (Caton Avenue entrance) looks underbuilt for the amount of space available.
There appears to be enough room to significantly expand the dock, possibly even double it, if Lyft/Citi Bike moved it farther from the building fence and used the footprint more efficiently.
I’m trying to figure out the best way to get this formally considered. Should this go to Citi Bike/Lyft directly, DOT, a community board, or elected officials? If anyone has experience getting a dock expanded or relocated, I’d love to know what actually works.
People traveling though Brooklyn by bus are finally seeing an administration push through redesigns of major roads that got put on pause for no reason.
It's a about time!