Civic News Spring 2011 The Newsletter of the Park Slope Civic Council | www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org

Building Our Livable Streets How can we work together to create a more engaging street and a more vital community? A Journey Around and For Park Slope

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Civic News | Spring 2011 03 Civic News | Spring 2011 04 how neighbors, as learn accomplish we, can that goal. Civic News sought and advocatesto leaders local out six even more engaging and amore street vital community. we’ll have work to creating hard build an to on this asset, In and cycle. walk theto future, bus, alocal around, ride Healthyand share life our street strengths. encourages us whereplace, we our meet neighbors, help other each out, found on our very livable are They our gathering streets. of Park essence the is Slope? The answer mightWhat be Our Livable Streets be when people are the priority. Encourage the mer Street event to see how joyous a street can a Sum or attend party a block Sponsor benefit. hood ties are strengthened and businesses neighbor be, to aplace people want is a street distribution of street real estate, because when of us. all to belongs that something claim a car — does not mean they should be able to space. Just because someone has a metal placeholder — a.k.a. enjoyment. We can do all this and more, but only if we have streetside cafes and pleasantly landscaped plazas for everyone’s as such We add amenities can corrals. on-street in parking bike connected network of protected paths and providing abundant a by building cycling nonpolluting We quiet, encourage can ing curb extensions that limit the distance between corners. build at and corners parking by reducing at intersections bility visi and safety We increase can made space for essentials. the private vehicle parking should be allowed only after we have Free, on-street facilities. storage as streets, of our think rently do on them? to we want living the room for we make How big. all so can only are streets Unfortunately, experience. their promising com functionality transportation its —without arest take aneighbor, of tag, play chat shop with agame locally, bus, subway or the —catch do anything can when pedestrians play, relax, travel, to linger. and feel safe where we all places be to space, need public shared largest our streets, Our still. at aslower moving pace or evenstanding those for environment apleasant creates —and of streets pose pur aprimary is transportation moves people —because efficiently one that is street livable Atruly community? of the desires and needs various the accommodate street a can of all, First of living. ways many are there because simply meanings many has streets The concept livable of our largest shared streets, Our space Building We should all work toward a more equitable waythecur we To havewe change to uses, many these fit is potential full up its to living is astreet that sign A sure ------ings would have little hope of occurring. have would little ings meet of chance kinds these realm, public safe and a vibrant Without at neighborhood. work the in while and my family with street on ones) new the while (and making old friends into running I’m decades, two constantly dent for almost Slope resi aPark As of snow 2feet ground. is onthere the outside, evenwhen much so time spends everyone because enjoy neighborhoods. and our stroll, recreate, exercise, friends, arewhere we They meet ness. busi commerce of places for small vital are They school. day get to work to We spaces. public and every them use community. foundation of astrong the as realm public avibrant sees and of thinking, kind this centers of one local Slopeof is the Park future. sustainable economy, a prosperity, and afoundation for shared broadly akey astrong to is streets livable and transportation public in investing understands that acity proud in live I am to Make our public realm livable very and friendly in Park Slope. activist safe-street local and mother afull-time is Smith Oltman — Joanna you! thank will enjoyable. and Your community functional changes to street infrastructure to help shape streets that are safe on the street. Attend community hearings on proposed Police Department to enforce moving violations so we are all — and remind us of how precious our public space is. public of how our us precious remind — and and block parties are some of the best days in our community Avenue, on Seventh parades Parade, Pride the baseball and space.Halloween public The temporary into streets make ally runoff. reduce sewage and get more trees to water that pits tree enhanced install have, and one wethe already protect more plant to trees, President Markowitz Borough and Council Civic the work to with opportunity have the proud Iam to socialize. sit to places and with spaces green small and parks createpocket to groups community with am working I the neighborhood. enhance further fice would Many of the projects I have been working on while in of in on while working I have been projects of the Many neighbors your get to know to Slope, it’s Park In easy important one most of are our sidewalks and streets Our I would also like to see more where see events to we occasion like also I would which includes Park Slope and many nearby communities. nearby Park many and Slope includes which District, 39th forthe councilmember city is Lander — Brad more and pleasant. safer streets local local residents, businesses, and other stakeholders to make ans, cyclists, and drivers. I want to continue to work with pedestri accommodate that streets livable complete and friendly place. Our community is doing a great job creating make our public realm an extraordinarily livable and Park Slope is a special place because of the things that www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org ------Photos by David Herman Park Slope Civic Council Civic Slope Park 2002. since Brooklyn president borough been Markowitz has — Marty areality. into vision that youhelping turn in proud apartner be Iam to and look to like, street their want they what of vision a different has neighborhood Every character. their maintain and structures consistent maintain to “downzone” your area, a process that helps ensure streets ( process land-use city the through has supported, My office neighborhoods. your protect into New storm-water runoff duces polluted York Harbor. re dramatically and roots, by tree caused damage sidewalk 5 by 5 feet to 5 by 9 feet makes for healthier trees, decreases for the environment: theEnlarging size of the tree pit from good also is The program efforts. gardening local encourage and adding much elegance to a streetscape, these tree guards program.this In addition to protecting our precious trees streets. More 35than Park Slope blocks have taken in part for gorgeous wrought-iron tree guards on their residential Fund, a program that allows blocks associations to apply top honorsreceived efforts. for their have consistently Slope block associations 10 Park years, past the Garden’s Over Competition. Block tanic Greenest Bo the Brooklyn co-sponsoring by efforts green local vance more blocks livable. their for making strategies share agencies and with meet to together leaderstion came associa 100 more than April, event in Associations Block Federation of Brooklyn Annual 10th At our zoning. tual andcontex preservation historic efforts, greening cluding in improvement neighborhood issues, tackle associations block rite, summer Brooklyn’s ultimate block parties, soring crime. and Today, spon to in graffiti, addition blight, ban ur fight to together newcomershomeowners and banded ago, when years Slope some 40 Park in movement born was The block-association street. concept of alivable their ize have help to real neighborhoods tools one best ofare the Slope. Park in of course and Brooklyn, across much of whatwe have doneguided for neighborhoods concept has president, this borough my as tenure During on them. people who live by the created are streets Livable Livable are what streets you make them Never forget that livable streets are what you make them. them. whatyou make are streets Never forget livable that residents to local with We proud been partner to have also weIn created2004, the Neighborhood Beautification to ad associations block with up teamed has My office block associations residents, for advocates their the As ulurp ), the efforts of localgroups ------1 for eight years. She currently lives in Greenpoint. lives currently She years. 1 foreight Board forBrooklyn Community chair Committee portation Trans as — Teresa Toro served and Brooklynite, anative is it happen. make to time nowthe —and is neighborhood your about how experience to you want think to time the is ive of the ideals of livable streets than Janette Sadik-Khan. Now more support commissioner transportation hasn’t acity been There difference. the one all voice makes with speaking — and appropriate the people for forward. each step thank celebrate to and sure make and stage, at every participate to prepared Be plan. action develop an jointly then leaders can and community officials, agencies,elected City campaign? anti-graffiti An lamps? street Historic trees? More street items. “wish-list” and of solutions, problems, Develop alist platform. atangible around you have sure consensus make neighborhood. their feel in about how is people —this infrastructure” “transportation we’re all, not talking after essential; is table ateryone the ev Having etc. calming, foradvocates open space, traffic we’ve my neighborhood, In contribute. got experienced can more so people goals, apply livable-streets to commonly interests of your which see and network local that activate elements made — up of many is street A livable of expertise. ofa group people for whom point it’s the to apriority, often have. already foundation you livable-streets celebrate the so associations, for such positive wish but Slopers, a lotPark of communities it’s —perhaps to acliché strollers and shops, trees, small of brownstones, think Slope, they of Park people think When andcommunity. of place sense offer a streets Livable dog. your with comfortably or stroll market, or the biketo You scale: walk ahuman It has street? alivable makes What How do you want to experience your neighborhood? of traffic they carried. He learned that the social effects of effects social the that learned He carried. they of traffic amount the way — one significant in varied that design and geometry of similar streets Francisco Berkeley, San studied cities. American killing was streets automobilethe on urban Livable Streets 1981 book, seminal Appleyard’s The judgment Donald of It’s about findingbalance a The strongerthe network,the broaderthe knowledge base though, officials, or elected city Before you with meet there’s for issue, that any Iloveis about advocacy What Appleyard, a professor at the University of California, of California, aprofessor University at the Appleyard, , was simple yet startling: The hegemony of yet simple startling: , was Section head Cover story Cover - - -

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Slope aco-founder and Council Park of the Civic Slope treasurer the McClure is — Eric place live. to desirable and Slope such apleasant Park transit-accessible bikeable, walkable, consider of us why many mount to so afew days. just in signatures of petition thousands with DOT flooding and meeting apublic overwhelming opposition, visceral united, up rose in spontaneously nity Avenuesenth flowto one-way. two-way from commu Our Sev and Slope’s Park altering Sixth the idea of floated tation of Transpor 2007, Department city’s when spring the the in pe and lanes, bus dedicated bikepaths, protected diets, road like Initiatives transit-users. and cyclists, drivers, pedestrians, among equitably streets sharing and ance bal a but finding cars, It’s about. not about banning all is stoops. our from neighbors our hail to us encourage linger, to and want us make in, us draw streets balanced well- quiet, Conversely, along. calm, hurry us or make ters, quar our us to us away, push They aren’tconfine pleasant. —just or gridlocked speeding —whether cars of honking blocks entire their identifying counterparts, high-traffic their than much“home more territories” broadly their defined blocks. on their spend more and time gather more tendedto frequently they and streets, traveled people on heavily did as blocks on their friends many as times three had more than streets traveled lightly on werevolumes living People pronounced. traffic Our streets and sidewalks were extensions of our homes. of our were extensions sidewalks and streets Our para is livable streets our of whatmakes sense that And street livable thethe idea of whatis essence, That, at its full streets Busy level. on agut sense makes science His streets light-traffic of residents that discovered he And as home, not just their apartments or buildings. apartments home, their not as just , head to the DOT’s tothe web , head download a copy of acopy of download ToTransportation. of Department city’s the from available is policies city’s our and streets livable on primer excellent An - came out in full force full out in came sense innate one. 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