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Heads up, drivers – alternate side parking regulations have been suspended on Thursday, January 29; Friday, January 30; and Saturday, January 31 to allow for snow removal, city officials announced this afternoon. Alternate side parking regulations are also suspended today, Wednesday, January 28. Payment at parking meters, however, will remain in
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A group of concerned Windsor Terrace residents are launching a discussion about the need for the city Department of Transportation and the NYPD to pay greater attention to the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists on neighborhood streets. To start, the group has developed a survey to find out about
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Source: NYCDOTOn one night between Monday, May 12, and Friday, May 16, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Division of Bridges will close lanes of the eastbound Belt (Shore) Parkway bridge over Mill Basin to restore the asphalt on the roadway surface. Lane closures will be in effect
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Source: SheepsheadBites.comCity Councilman-elect Mark Treyger expressed concern that muni-meters could be the target of identity thieves bent on stealing money from unsuspecting motorists. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is reporting [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/are-identity-thieves-tampering-muni-meters-2013-11-27-150000] that Treyger wants the Department of Transportation (DOT) to install additional security around muni-meters
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Between road work, street cleaning, and The Black Box [/blog/art-music/the-black-box-filming-on-several-neighborhood-blocks-next-week] filming, at least one neighbor is having trouble parking in the area. “Due to construction (that has been going on for over two weeks now) on Argyle Road, no one will be able to park there on Monday,
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Yesterday, Councilmember Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com/], Kensington neighbors, and transportation safety advocates delivered the ‘Our neighborhood is not a highway’ petition [/transportation/residents-join-lander-to-demand-actions-to-improve-prospect-expresswaychurch-ave-intersection] , which calls on the New York State Department of Transportation to sign off on a safety plan to address the dangerous Church Avenue and Ocean Parkway
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Photos by and courtesy of Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE: In early 2012, we reported on confusing Department of Transportation (DOT) parking and traffic regulations [/how-much-do-you-know-about-parking-regulations/] and on confusing and outdated signage [/one-change-that-should-not-be-made-and-others-that-are-long-overdue/] mentioning the taxi stand on Brighton Beach Avenue. That stand is not even listed in DOT’s database of
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For those proposals that make it to the Participatory Budgeting ballot, it’s hard, even for budget delegates on the Public Health and Safety committee, to get enraptured by the kinds of projects this committee would naturally produce. While the restrictions for this second iteration PBNYC remain — one million dollar
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An emergency meeting. Photo courtesy of the Workers Justice Project/Proyecto Justicia Laboral [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Workers-Justice-Project-Proyecto-Justicia-Laboral/114221315273293] For more than 12 years, a center in Bensonhurst provided a myriad of services for day laborers and undocumented workers. The laborers depended on the center to keep them off
DOT
The DOT made a quick stop at the intersection of Story St and Story Ct this morning, shoveling asphalt into a long-standing shallow pit that has had pedestrians making a curvy path across the intersection on drizzly days like today for more than two years.
Belt Parkway
The following is a revisedimportant notice from the NYC Department of Transportation Division of Bridges, noting nightly lane closures on the east bound Belt Parkway through mid-July.
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The following is a press release from the office of Assemblyman William Colton: New bill by NY Assemblyman William Colton aims to end parking meter “shell game [/drivers-in-bensonhurst-confused-by-meter-rules/]” “City bureaucrats must stop ticketing New Yorkers for breaking a law that does not exist! New Yorkers are getting ripped off for