Bike

08/04/2026 - 15:35

If it ain't bnoken? Don't fix it. At least on Dean between Smith and Fourth Avenue, the current system works. Bikes use the bike path. They get where they need to go. Sometimes, they come into the street to go faster or avoid a doiuble-parked car. But it works out. There are plenty of bikes and cars and parking and pedestrians and very few if any accidents involving bikes. Pedestrians feel safe. Why upend that and make life difficult when it's fine now? Not to mention, these parking spots often are taken by city workers anyway. Teachers. People at the courts. I can't speak to east of fourth avenue. But I've been here 15 years. The last thing we need is a whole new way to live on these streets.

Driving

08/01/2026 - 21:40

Taking away parking is going to make matters worse especially when there are events at the Barclays. Lets come to some middle ground. Prevent Trucks from driving there, put the bus routes on Atlantic and put speed bumps to prevent drivers from speeding down the street. Removing an entire parking lane is a really bad idea.

Accessibility

07/30/2026 - 08:13

Please do not move the bus from here or this side of Atlantic Avenue. As someone who is disabled having to walk all the way to the other side of Atlantic avenue to take the bus is significantly further and is not possible. There are already bus routes that go along Atlantic (through Bed Study etc) but there are none that go further into Crown heights, into Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Boreum Hill, Cobble Hill area. This is the only option for disabled people in this route and it is really essential that it is preserved. Otherwise people are not able to leave or have to rely on Ubers or other expensive options to travel. If the route needs to be changed to remove cars, please move it further into Crown Heights like along St. Marks, or Prospect Pl. The walk across Atlantic is significant and inaccessible.

Public Transit

07/29/2026 - 08:40

I am concerned that this project prioritizes concerns of bike community over other critical users, especially public transit users on the B65 line. This is a crosstown route which provides access to a number of subway stops and public facilites to community members, including elderly and students. This line has a logic in terms of being part of a unified system allowing movement in parts of Brooklyn where subways do not go and connecting other public transit lines - if moved to Atlantic Avenue it will lessen public transit options to Crown Heights and Prospect Heights community members as well as those in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill. If moved to Atlantic Ave, the line will lengthen travel journeys for public transit users in the community, as well as require the many elderly residents, shoppers and student users of the line to cross the very wide and dangerous Atlantic Avenue to access bus service, this move is not justified by any other utility, since the other side of Atlantic is serviced by multiple bus lines already. Second, the existing plan to speed buses on Flatbush Avenue is already causing major traffic congestion on many streets in the area, particularly in the Western End of Prospect Heights and adjoining Park Slope as traffic is diverted to other streets. This bike boulevard proposal should be put aside until the effects of the Flatbush Avenue project can actually be evaluated for efficacy since it would be expected to create further crowding of the secondary streets in the area. Finally I question the logic of more widely spacing the bus stops which seems to be part of all these projects. While they may speed the buses, the bus users themselves already have subway options in many cases, and for many users, losing stops make the buses less convenient and more tiring. Given the population that actually use buses and the number of elderly in our communities, I question whether this is an appropriate policy choice.