Speedbumb on suburban road in Brooklyn Heights

When some child is killed on the street by a speeding car, because there is no speed bump, how will you feel when your name is published in the newspaper as the person who did away with the proposed speed bump?

Get better windows.

Uhm Aaron....if a kid gets killed on this street then they were at fault because they didn't cross at the crossing.

I like having fresh air in my apartment and that's why I have my windows open.

Thanks for your 'input' thought.

Does anyone have a serious response?

I've emails NYC DOT and CB2 but had no response yet.

I can't believe the two of you are talking about a hypothetical child being killed, and whose fault it is. Horrible.

I'm not sure this is a serious discussion, but for the record, no, there is nothing you can do at this point. I know Brooklyn Heights well, almost bought property there, and it is hardly suburban. This speed bump has been in process for months, thanks to your neighbors who have been showing up for community board subcommittee meetings and checking off all the boxes.

Yep CB2 responded via email, wtf how is this "community consultation" when they haven't posted notices at the proposed locations eg unless you are on the BHA mailing list how were we to know.

Interesting that this actually breaks NYC DOT rules around emergency vehicle routes but its been approved anyway.

I couldn't find a map of this online so I’ve temporarily attached the PDF that was emailed to me that the BHA and CB2 have presented to the NYC DOT but this is the first I’ve ever heard of it and I cant find anything online about it.

You can download it for now from here – http://www.collins.net.pr/upload/Brookly_Heights_SZ_Neighborhood_Map_revised_5.11.15.pdf

Like I said so much for “community consultation” if the day of installation is the first people are hearing about it.

Local government run amuck if you ask me, you should see how many speed bumps there are going into the BH 10 block radius – There are over 28 different speed bumps being installed in the Brooklyn Heights area alone.

There are 4 speed bumps going into Henry St alone (this along with 5 sets of traffic lights……what the heck are they thinking?).

This is plain nuts – talk about the noise pollution from all these cars braking before hand, then crashing into, then speeding up away from each of these 28 speed bumps.

No wonder our rates went up 20% last year.

Lobby to get more and more speedbumps installed, closely spaced, and there will be no opportunity for speeding up. Problem solved, everybody's happy as a clam. No worries, as they say in Brooklyn.

It would've been a good idea to be on BHA's mailing list, rather than sit waiting for them to come knock on your door. Here's a post of theirs from two years ago: http://brooklynheightsassociation.org/infocus/e677fce5e61a472bcb658e57060f7156

>more and more speedbumps installed, closely spaced

Get enough speed bumps that the whole street is level but at a higher elevation. As usual, Alan Hart is a couple steps ahead of the rest of us. You should Google him and see more of what he's all about.

@NWT uhm ok.....so this is community consultation is it....announcing it on a blog that no one reads?

No wonder they got 95% approval rating for the project moving forward........I could get a duck elected president if I only told the local duck collectors association that the elections were being held.

Except that it's wabbit season.

Well, deanc, let me agree with you this much: The current Mayor is much more interested in speed bumps than he is in crime, with neighborhoods around the city feeling scarier than they did under Mayor Mike. Just talked with a lady in Chelsea who reports things are just so much worse than they used to be, she is calling 911 for the first time. All those shootings this past weekend in the Bronx and especially in hipster Brooklyn, and the Labor Day shootings, are depressing evidence I feel of misplaced priorities.

Or people who have been UN/underemployed for too long. I haven't read about any massive declines in the police force. Face it, the economy sucks for a lot of people, and the young who can't find employment are bound to become less happy over time. We can incarcerate them for minor infractions, often without moral justification, or as a society we can try to figure out and deal with massive levels of social and economic equality that are growing worse in the wealthiest country.

>Just talked with a lady in Chelsea who reports things are just so much worse than they used to be

What year did this lady move to Chelsea originally?

>Face it, the economy sucks for a lot of people,

How many is a lot?

>and the young who can't find employment are bound to become less happy over time.

We have lower unemployment than we did in early 2005 and the trend has been down since October 2009, almost 6 years ago.

>We can incarcerate them for minor infractions, often without moral justification,

We can send a man to the moon!

>or as a society we can try to figure out and deal with massive levels of social and economic equality that are growing worse in the wealthiest country.

Why is inequality the issue if living standards are rising? Why are you just complaining for complaining sake? What have you done as an individual to improve on these areas that you otherwise ask society to fix?

Your unemployment analysis is way too simplistic. The young are un and underemployed in a huge way. If they've never officially entered the workforce they won't be counted in one survey and will fall out of the other after a certain amount of time. If they are underemployed they'll make it into the u6, I believe, but will not be included in the official unemployment rate. Don't talk about thing you clearly don't know.

Living standards are NOT rising. Seriously, do some research about real wages, which have dropped dramatically.

I do a fair amount, actually. What do you do?

You don't like the black and white published facts so it becomes "my analysis". And since you have no alternative facts or even analysis, you just say my facts are "simplistic".

American's living standards are absolutely increasing, but too many look at what they don't have rather than why they do have, egged on by those with an agenda or just general dour outlook on life.

What is it that you do, serve soup when your daughter is in town?

No, living standards are NOT increasing, real wages have fallen a lot since 2000. Real wages, meaning how many apples you can buy, how much space you can rent, whether or not you can afford dental care, etc.

No, I'm working with disadvantaged children and with literacy groups.

It has continued, but here is one article that I found in a minute or so. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-27/for-every-education-level-real-wages-have-gone-down-this-year-so-far

Blame Brooklyn Bridge Park. It has turned the neighborhood into a destination it wasn't before and their are a lot more people coming through now. The whole Heights is designated as a "slow zone".

I can only imagine what Bburg said that was deleted after he?she? otherwise posted twice about education levels and wages that have nothing to do with speed bumps.

Bburg, it seemed like the Republicans were supporting your skepticism on the topics of wages and employment rates. You a Huckabee or Christie fan, or something more Bush or Kasich? I can't imagine you are for Carly.