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By Jess Schiewe 6/06/12 4:15pm

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Fingers crossed: off-street parking requirements might be reduced in Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Department of City Planning)

Goodbye Parking Garages: Proposal Aims To Reduce Off-Street Parking Requirements in Downtown Brooklyn

There’s a reason why public transportation exists: so that people don’t have to use cars. Downtown Brooklyn residents have long accepted this reality of urban living and it appears that the Department of City Planning has too.

At Monday’s  City Planning Commission meeting, DCP unveiled their latest proposal: a plan to reform Downtown Brooklyn’s off-street parking requirements. The oh-so-creatively titled Downtown Brooklyn Off-Street Parking plan would reduce the current zoning requirements for parking in new developments from availability for 40 percent of residential units to 20 percent. Read More

By Drew Grant 5/07/12 11:05am

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Pissed about Park Slope Parking (StreetInfo.Org)

Park Slope Residents Hand Out Homemade Citation to Inconsiderate Motorists

Oh, crazy Brooklynites, will you never change? It’s been less than two months since the incident at D’Amico Coffee in Carroll Gardens, when an angry note on the door alerted fans of the 75-year-old shop that nosy neighbors had petitioned the city to get involved in their coffee battle (apparently some people just hate the smell of freshly roast grounds).

This weekend continued the passive-aggressive madness in the form of more homemade “notes”: with area residents this time taking to the streets in Park Slope to leave long-form essays on the windshields of motorists who took up too much space with their parking without violating any actual laws.

Read the entire two-page citation, via StreetsBlog.org. Read More

By Matt Chaban 1/13/12 10:47am

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Not in my backyard? Why not! (Ochinko/Flickr)

Brooklyn Heights Hated the Promenade Almost as Much at the B.Q.E

Oh, the ironies of the rich.

When Robert Moses proposed a plan for the Brooklyn Queens Expressway to cut right through Brooklyn Heights, the local noblesse were in a rage. The solution was wrapping the highway around the tony neighborhood. Moses was even thoughtful enough to add the world-famous Promenade, beloved location of so many cinematographers, and still the locals were not happy. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 9/30/11 3:53pm

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Hello Brooklyn 2.0: Even Jay-Z Has Been Priced Out of the Borough

We have an official addition to the running list of famous people no longer able to afford Brooklyn, and this one may come as a surprise.

Last night, The Observer spoke to Jay-Z at his charity carnival. Monday’s announcement that the Brooklyn Nets would still be called the Brooklyn Nets was very much on our mind, so we asked if the most famous Brooklynite since Walt Whitman might soon be moving back to his home borough to be closer to the team. Read More