Brooklyn Daily Eagle Tries to Create Controversy Where There Is None

By on May 16, 2012 1:07 am in brooklyn bridge park, Transportation

This Brooklyn Daily Eagle story has the headline, “Brooklyn Bridge Park at odds with Heights over bike stations.” It implies some sort of Park-Heights conflict that doesn’t exist. Update: If you follow the link above, you’ll now find that the Eagle headline and story have been re-worded, evidently in response to this post.

The story quotes Nancy Webster of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy as welcoming a bike station near Atlantic Avenue and Furman Street, which is not on a residential street in Brooklyn Heights. It then notes that the Brooklyn Heights Association has expressed some concern over bike stations on residential streets in the Heights. This in no way conflicts with the BBPC’s desire for a station near the Park’s entrance, so the BBPC and the BHA are not “at odds.”

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  • BrooklynDad

    Two issues that upset residents but that aren’t being raised is the garish branding by Citibank that will accompany these stations. Who wants the street in front of their home to look like a giant billboard?
    Another is the 24/7 traffic the sites will attract, literally steps from their front doors … and the associated potential for crime.
    Both of these considerations have a potential negative impact on property value to keep in mind.

  • sajh

    Slide: You state the bicycle was a “major means of transportation” before the car. Unfortunately, that is incorrect. Brooklyn Heights started as a farmtown. Individual farms first with the Dutch in the early 1600s, then came the Hicks, Middaghs etc 1680s. It slowly become the first suburb with the Fulton Ferry opening. The bicycle was never considered a commuting vehicle specifically b/c the first metal bike didnt come about until 1890. Before that it wasnt adequant and some were made of wood. They were recreational The uneven cobblestone of NY also did not allow for a pleasant ride. The main mode of transportation was the horse and buggy (both personal and bus or trolley type setup) which was largely the size of an SUV today. And they polluted as well (manure, noise). People would take a horse and buggy to the Fulton Ferry to Manhattan until the Brooklyn Bridge and Cadman Terminal of the rail lines. Then people would take the trains/trolleys or horse and buggy across the Brooklyn Bridge. The car followed shortly after in 1908. In otherwords, the main mode of transportation never was and never has been the bicycle unfortunately. The horse-pulled truck-wagon and horse-pulled buggy were before the car. They were the main mode of transportation b/c the rider was dry and didnt have to do anything. Most of the population will always choose comfort and ease.
    The three locations that I specifically mentioned are in front of people’s homes and why their homes and not someone else’s? It isnt fair they have to deal with that. And you are right, if a bright blue ugly car that was a attraction to outsiders parked in front of a townhome and did not move, ever, it would be no different in objection. But cars eventually move. Those three spots need better thought out locations. Montague could use another. The businesses on that block would (maybe) appreciate it. And Court St absolutely needs one.

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