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Bklink: A Bike Lane Controversy in the Burg? Really?!?!?

January 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

link-asterisk.jpgAfter 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 bicycle and pedestrian path stretching from Greenpoint to Sunset Park and separated from vehicles by medians filled with grass or shrubs. The lanes follow the East River shoreline from the southern edge of Greenpoint to Division Avenue, a few blocks from the Williamsburg Bridge, passing construction sites, parking lots, a lumberyard, the Zafir Jewish Center for Special Education, and Schaefer Landing, a luxury residential development with a 26-story tower.”–NYT

Tags: Bklink · Transportation · Williamsburg

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  • 1 Brenda from Flatbush // Jan 5, 2009 at 11:33 am

    And the Grey Lady managed, incredibly, never once to mention the Hassidic community or the widely discussed elements of culture clash between them and outsiders. I don’t claim to know the actual role of cultural issues like “women in bike shorts” but it seemed unusually clueless even for the NYT not to mention it.