Here is the official Brooklyn CB 9 Board Resolution Disapproving NYC DOT Bike Lane Proposal –
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/brooklyncb9/downloads/pdf/2025/CB9ResolutionDOTKingstonBrooklynSchoolSafetyBikeLaneProject.pdf

Keep in mind many board members will follow the suggestion of the Board Chair (Fred Baptiste), who himself was pushing for the NYC DOT’s protected bike lanes. NYC DOT chose Brooklyn and Kingston because that’s where the bike lanes are North of Eastern Parkway. https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-bike-map-2024.pdf

Besides being dangerous blind spots, the protected bike lanes would have REMOVED one of the two traffic lanes on Brooklyn Ave, starting on Empire, south, or down to Rutland. This would have unfortunately increased traffic and effect emergency response times.

Brooklyn & Kingston Ave North of the Middle of Empire Blvd is under jurisdiction of District 35 City Councilmember Crystal Hudson.
Brooklyn & Kingston Ave South of the Middle Of Empire Blvd is under jurisdiction of District 40, City Councilmember Rita Joseph.

If it wasn’t for CB 9 Board Member Benny Rosenberger’s amendment, the community would be at risk of experiencing the same problems WIlliamsburg is experiencing now, with increased pedestrian accidents, not to mention increased traffic times resulting from the removal of one of Brooklyn Ave’s two traffic lanes ( South of Empire down to Rutland).

Comment by:
Jay Sorid

Double parking is necessary to drop off passengers.

The bike lane being there does not mean that the row of cars next to the bike lane was “double parked”: they were legally parked.

So there must have then been a car illegally “double-parked” in the street, one lane even farther from the curb than the row of legally-parked cars lined up next to the bike lane.
So the little girl was standing pretty far out in the street, behind an illegally-double-parked car.

So is it that the girl darted toward the curb b/c she was out in traffic and needed to go to the safety of the curb, and was hit by a speeding bike on her way to the curb?

If so, did anyone fault the bike-rider? My understanding is that pedestrians have the right of way, even when jaywalking, etc., crossing on a red light, etc.

If the police force were big enough to really enforce all the traffic laws more vigorously, bikes would eventally drive more responsibly.

To build so many bike lanes is premature, with no enforcement of driving laws for bikes.

Allocate more resources to punishing bikes going too fast or doing other forms of aggressive, dangerous riding! THEN we can talk about making more bike lanes, “protected” or not.

Comment by:
Jay Sorid