Car-Free Bedford Avenue

[Zorinlndustries]

What a fantastic idea. Eliminate all traffic so none of the local businesses or residents can be supplied with goods or services. Perhaps they should use their bicycles to "truck" essential items into the area. How will emergency service vehicles enter the area when you've created bottlenecks or installed speed bumps which will increase response times? It's a city street with legitimate businesses not a park.

[releasethebats]

@Zorinlndustries : Wow, it's amazing how silly and uninformed some people are!

[dirtyjett]

I hope your dream is just a dream.

[releasethebats]

Actually, this kind of thing is becoming a reality all over the city. It may not happen on Bedford, but it will happen elsewhere.

So you had better get used to the dream.

[undertoes]

Die Hipster scum

[tepparit84]

I love SEA thai restaurant at N.6 st. & berry.

[chelincitai]

I was born and raised in Williamsburg, right by Bedford Ave and the avenue was always open to cars and there was never a problem with it, never noisy until all the wanna-be's started moving to the neighborhood. it was very pleasant and a cooler then it is now...now its just "trendy" its crowded and annoying to walk on Bedford. and Driggs Avenue is getting the same way.

This is Brooklyn, not the suburbs. If you can't handle it then go back to the town you came from. Stop trying to change it.

[releasethebats]

chel - might want to take a trip to Europe someday. There are pedestrianized streets all over the place, and it was nothing to do with "wanna-bes" (whatever that is). There's nothing suburban about it at all.

[joehogan212]

I lived on Bedford Ave 15 years ago and moved to quiter areas as the neighborhood gentrified. I disagree with many of these ideas. Residents know that Roebling or Kent are faster drives - but if you make Bedford "Car Free" those streets, which are more residential / less commercial, will get more spillover traffic. Why punish people who choose to live on quiter streets? Also, the car service on Bedford Ave has been in the 'burg longer than the businesses making the area an attraction.

[henterpriseltd]

Um last I checked Brooklyn is in NYC. if you don't like the noise or the cars move to the burbs. plus logistically how would the businesses in your esplanade get their if they're in the middle of a no car zone?

[releasethebats]

Again, what is with this comments about the suburbs? Cities are for people, not cars. Suburbs are the places that are car-dependent.

[chelincitai]

cities are also for buses which A LOT of people in nyc use and bedford avenue is a main bus route and i dont care about europe this is nyc. go back to the suburbs is for the people that complain about the noise in the city,this a city,its noisy deal with it, wannabes are all theartsy fartsies around, i liked my area when it was just italians, polish puerto ricans, and jews

it was more interesting then

i understand the gentrification happens but i dont have to like it and i can say what i please

[alanhowitzer]

I completely support this effort. It is something that should happen.

[karazy2k]

Make more room for the yuppies aka "hipsters."

[releasethebats]

Make more room for everybody.

There's no reason why this improvement cannot happen in every neighborhood.

So chill out, stop being grumpy, and get working.

[karazy2k]

Funny how no one gave a sh*t about traffic, graffiti, subway service, etc. until the yuppies/hipsters came along.

[releasethebats]

Of course, this is not true. Why are you embracing civic dysfunction?

[diehipsters]

if you dont like cars then go back to nebraska you hipster

[releasethebats]

Nice. So we should just accept ever-increasing levels of traffic?

[palmist]

Grow up.

I live on Bedford and North 4th.

The cars make Williamsburg more alive and less "dead" at night.

Ffs...

[releasethebats]

Sorry, but cars do not make street life, people do.

[releasethebats]

And why is it when folks want to improve their neighborhood, we are told to "grow up"? I really don't understand it. How is reducing pollution, improving the local economy and livability of your neighborhood not grown up?

[alanhowitzer]

Yeah, by less dead do you mean to fill the night with honking, tire and engine noise, and emergency vehicle sirens trying to get through traffic? Ahhhh, what pleasant noise to sleep by or walk through.

I've experienced many carfree city streets. None in NYC of course because we don't have any. These carfree streets of elsewhere are more alive and have more civic and democratic qualities than carfull streets.

[joehogan212]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there are car free streets in little italy, and they are noisy and full of tourists all summer long. I would never want to live on one of those blocks.

[trorb]

Nice!