The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
It’s time to fix Times Plaza, a deadly intersection in the heart of Brooklyn. Join Transportation Alternatives and Brooklyn elected officials in realizing a 2017 New Year’s Resolution: A Safer Times Plaza.
Local organizations, elected officials and many of the 8,381 People First on Atlantic Avenue petition signers will gather to call the NYC DOT to action. TransAlt will be offering free coffee from Brooklyn Roasting Company and gifts, and providing info on the City’s proposed improvements.
Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities across the city this year have exceeded 2015 totals. You can help to make sure Vision Zero is moving in the right direction.
BROOKLYN, NY, December 7, 2016: Today, the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council (PHNDC) and the Office of Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams announced that Vanderbilt Avenue, the central boulevard of Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood, will be enhanced with historic street lighting. Fifty historic M type fixtures will replace all existing lamps, traffic and pedestrian signals from Atlantic Avenue to Plaza Street.
Have you been wondering when you’ll finally be able to jump on a Citi Bike in Prospect Heights? Join Citi Bike and the NYC Department of Transportation for a public planning workshop for the expanding Citi Bike program in Brooklyn Community Boards 8 and 9. Sessions being at 6:00PM and 7:00PM. For more information email Leroy Branch at lbranch@dot.nyc.gov.
(If you're looking for an opportunity to speak up about the Citi Bike stations already installed at Seventh Avenue and Park Place and at Flatbush Avenue and Plaza Street, stop by the CB6 Citi Bike hearing being held on October 20.)
On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Borough President Eric L. Adams will kick off Earth Week with his second annual Bike-to-Work ride from Grand Army Plaza to Brooklyn Borough Hall. Please join him at a press conference at Grand Army Plaza at 8:00 AM to discuss the importance of reducing our carbon footprint and supporting policies to reduce and mitigate climate change, not just during Earth Week, but year-round. Immediately following the press conference, the ride will commence. Please let Ryan Lynch, policy director to Brooklyn Borough President Adams, know if you are interested in joining, and feel free to reach out to him at ryanlynch@brooklynbp.nyc.gov if you have any questions.
Times Plaza is slated to be redesigned to create an enhanced,
permanent public space. Please join NYC DOT and share your input about
plaza design.
Starting this month, two projects that have been anticipated for quite some time are hitting the streets in Prospect Heights.
Signage and speed humps for Prospect Heights' Neighborhood Slow Zone (NSZ) are now being installed (like the signs pictured above at the corner of Park Place and Carlton Avenue). Prospect Heights was one of 15 communities chosen for a NSZ by the Department of Transportation in October 2013. PHNDC's application was among 74 received by DOT, and received the strong support of location elected officials and more than 1,300 residents. DOT's plan for the Prospect Heights NSZ was approved by Community Board 8 in June 2015.