The many improvements recently completed at Grand Army Plaza have reshaped this great public space, and are worthy of a great celebration. Read about that special ceremony and “ribbon cutting” that marked a milestone in the plaza’s transformation.
A Grand (Army) Celebration Read More »
The Civic Council offered testimony for residential permit parking at a City Council hearing on the subject. “We are sure that the benefits of reduced congestion and increased safety for all users of local streets will be immediate and substantial.”
One Step Closer to Permit Parking? Read More »
Hoboken faces a problem familiar to any Park Sloper: too many cars and too few places to park them. Members of the Civic Council recently toured the city to explore the innovative ways it is approaching these problems and how those solutions could be imported to Brooklyn.
Hoboken: Lessons for Park Slope Read More »
In March 2006, the Park Slope Civic Council devoted its annual community forum to issues of traffic and transportation. More than 200 audience members gathered in the Old First Reformed Church’s sanctuary to listen to panelists discuss traffic calming and placemaking, residential parking permits and Atlantic Yards, and more.
Improving Our Public Spaces Read More »
FORTHonFourth, a subcommittee of the Livable Streets Committe, seeks out opportunities to get involved now, at this inflection point of growth along the avenue, and help contribute to its future.
Moving Fourth Forward Read More »
The Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner Companies have served notice that they plan to fight a July court decision ordering further environmental review of the Atlantic Yards project. The decision came after nearly two years of litigation.
Atlantic Yards Sponsors Choose to Fight Court Order on Environmental Review Read More »
On Wednesday night, Sept. 14, some 500 people of all ages and backgrounds gathered at the Prospect Avenue R-train station on Fourth Avenue.
Uniting for a Safer Slope Read More »
The Summer 2011 issue of Civic News: A community victory at Atlantic Yards, Lovgren Awards, Fourth Avenue updates, and more
A community victory at Atlantic Yards, Lovgren Awards, and more Read More »
How should the community — and by “community” I mean the residents of Park Slope and our neighbors in Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, and Prospect Heights — respond to and live with this project?
Comment: Getting Our Voices into Atlantic Yards Read More »
Construction on the Barclays Center arena is well under way at Atlantic Yards, but the rest of the 22-acre project remains in doubt thanks in large part to our slow economy. Is there finally room for the community to create a new model for responsible development?
United for a New Megaproject Model Read More »