From the fine pages of Brooklynian comes this complaint from someone that the cops weren’t writing tickects for double-parked cars: So I’m at the Crunch Gym on Flatbush and I’m doing my cardio workout upstairs looking down on Flatbush Ave and I notice there are about four double-parked cars. So I’m wondering if the police […]

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[Photos courtesy of E.C. Stephens; click to enlarge] We have run a photo of the single tire here in the past, but hawk-eyed correspondent E.C. Stephens went us one step better. She took pictures of the bike next to it. One of them is from December. The other is from a few days ago. This […]

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This baby has been on N. 9 Street and Roebling in the Burg for quite a while. It’s across the street from Buffalo Exchange and it is a seriously sad sight.

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If you’re upset about the cuts in service the MTA is proposing and the fare increases, there’s a meeting on Wednesday that will be off interest. We got an email from Tom Gray at Council Member Bill de Blasio’s office that has been circulated widely. The Public Hearing takes place tomorrow night (Wednesday, January 28) […]

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[Photo courtesy of E.C. Stephens] This is a little scene near Union Street on the Park Slope side of Fourth Avenue. It’s been there like that for a while, but Correspondent E.C. Stephens managed to capture the essence of the healthy bike versus the solitary tire.

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After months of blog coverage (and a couple of newspaper articles) about the controversies over bike lanes in Williamsburg, the newspaper of record has taken note: “The city’s Department of Transportation painted 1.75 miles of bike lanes on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg last fall, the first step of an ambitious plan to create a 14-mile […]

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There is some drama and/or intrigue to report from Community Board 1, the always interesting body that covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint and deals with some very contentious issues. One of the most contentious recent ones is the status of bike lanes in the neighborhood and, in particular, those on Kent Avenue running through the Hasidic […]

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Found under the BQE in Williamsburg and about as messed up as a bike can get.

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This Thursday, at 6pm, Community Board 6 will be gathering to hear a presentation and review of the Department of City Planning’s proposed Bicycle Parking Text Amendment that if approved will to require indoor bicycle parking in new multi-family residential, community facilities, and commercial buildings. The proposed text amendment would provide for bicycle parking at […]

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The ongoing Wiliamsburg Bike lane wars, which have pitted bicyclists agains the Hasidic community, will take an interesting turn on Wednesday when Bike Clowns show  up to protest. This Wed (12/17) from 8:30-10am, clowns will be riding amuck through the streets from the Williamsburg Bridge and following a route South on the new Kent Ave […]

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It’s been a while since we got around to a Transportation Tuesday or Transportation Thursday, but when we found this deconstructed bike attached to the Carroll Street Bridge at the Gowanus Canal we knew we had to act.

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It is that time of year when God (aka the Department of Transportation) speaks and releases its 2009 Alternate Side Parking Calendar. The calendar is posted on DOT’s website, which can be found by clicking here. It apparently can be downloaded in formats that allow import into Outlook, Google Calendar and iCal (look at our […]

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Ah, it’s subway train report card time. For whatever their worth–and they car questionable because they hit a fraction of actual users–the report cards do give some idea of how riders view service. There are paper report cards handed out in stations, but the fun part is that anyone can go online and grade the […]

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There’s a “Transportation Town Hall” in Williamsburg that’s billed as a “discussion about the Greenway / Bike Lanes and other transportation issues hosted by City Council Member (OSA Board Member) David Yassky, Council Member Diana Reyna, State Senator Elect Daniel Squadron, the MTA, and DOT.” Per another email, “topics will include all transportation issues, from […]

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All credit for this find goes to Streets Blog and it seems like the Borough President’s point right now is to say “no!” to East River Bridge tolls. Okay.

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We usually focus on trashed bikes in our Transportation Tuesday and Thursday pics, but this one was too much fun as a portrait to pass by. It comes from Williamsburg, of course.

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Now, despite the fact that this surely will be posted on the many other blogs it’s been sent to, this truly is worthy of publicity. Heart of Brooklyn (aka HOB) has put together free shuttles to more diversified and cultural destinations throughout Brooklyn than the shuttles to that big blue Swedish box in Red Hook. […]

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Friends, you are free to decide which os thse two bicycles on N. 7 Street in Williamsburg has done better that the other, at least for now.

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] Here’s a classic scene. Bike lane. Bike. Car. It comes from our dear friend and GL Photo Contributor Adrian Kinloch, who in addition to being a superb and talented photographer is also a very, very nice person.

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One can always count on the G Train to provide ample chuckles, but this tale is downright f’ing scary. Here’s a story that comes from Brookynian, and boy, it’s a good one: riding on the G train from lorimer to bedford nostrand. guy gets on the train acting a little crazy, white guy, maybe 35, […]

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We found this item circulating via the Community Board 1 email list titled “Click for Better Bike Parking.” The emails says: Lack of secure bike-parking options is the number one reason that New Yorkers do not commute to work by bike. Bike Stop NYC, a small start up company, wants to hear from people who […]

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Yesterday, we related the tale originally brought to the world by Bitchcakes Commutes, of the G Train (used) condoms and loss of virginity graffiti. Today, we bring something less gross. A G Train clown, courtesy of a GL Correspondent who found the dude doing his thing on the Crosstown Local yesterday afternoon. If there is […]

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There isn’t enough Purel in the world to make sitting down on the train feel safe after reading this story. We’ve go to hand it to Bitch Cakes. She seems to always find herself at the right place, at the right time… or just a few seconds shy of catching the culprit(s) in the act, […]

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There’s a potentially interesting event this evening (10/21) for anyone that’s ever feared for their life while crossing the street near Atlantic Terminal and might want to know what could be done make it less potentially fatal. It will be a DOT presentation to Community Board 2’s Transportation Committee at 6 PM at St. Francis […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of E.C. Stephens] We do love our disassembled bikes almost as much as we adore a good street couch. Generally, we find our candidates in North Brooklyn, with Williamsburg being the epicenter of the screwed up bike. This specimen, however, comes from Carroll Gardens, which makes it a very special one […]

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