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Twelve years ago New York decided that people dying in traffic is a choice, not an accident. Since Vision Zero began in 2014 the city has cut the speed limit to 25 mph, put cameras in school zones and rebuilt hundreds of streets, and traffic deaths have fallen to record lows. 210 people were still killed last year.

On September 15 the Mayor’s Office published Vision Zero Reimagined, a ten-year plan with eight goals and 111 actions. Read next to what this board has voted for since 2010, the overlap is hard to miss: hardened daylighting, 20 mph zones, loading zones and curb management, protected bike lanes on priority corridors. CB6 voted for those first.

One thing is still missing, and it is the thing this board has asked for four times: universal daylighting. New York State bans parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk and New York City exempts itself. The plan promises 1,000 intersections a year. There are about 40,000.

Four Vision Zero priority corridors run through CB6, Court Street, 5th Avenue, 9th Street and Atlantic Avenue, and 28 people have been killed in traffic here since 2014, 16 of them walking. On Court Street, eight months after the protected bike lane went in, crashes are down 23 percent and injuries down 19 percent against the same months a year earlier, with no one killed.

Everything is at bkcb6.app/visionzerocb6: the plan goal by goal and all 111 actions, every priority corridor and intersection DOT lists here, every crash since 2014, camera tickets and 311 complaints, a map you can build layer by layer, and the full record of what this board has asked for with a link to every meeting.

Mike Racioppo

https://bkcb6.app/visionzerocb6/ taken in Brooklyn Community Board 6 by @bkcb6

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20 days ago

It took a lot of digging and deciphering, but there are four apps, all free, all on the App Store as of today. 3 look at things from micro to macro, and another is a refresher and hopefully just some fun in the hopes of not forgetting some civics.
BKCB6 is the close-up: one community board. Meeting, schools, 311, calendar, minutes, members, electeds, zoning, transportation, land use, and voting. BK CIVICS does similar stuff but across Brooklyn, and CB6 & Beyond does it across all 5 boroughs, and the 4th app tests your knowledge of city civics in what is, hopefully, a fun way.
Thank you to everyone who tested these(I apologize for the update emails that apple sent out at all hours).
None of them collect any data about you. I don’t even know who downloads them. But I am still happy to hear what you think; email me at Mike@bkcb6.org, and I’ll do my best to fix it.
Link in bio: https://bkcb6.app/appstore/ taken in Brooklyn Community Board 6 by @bkcb6

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13 days ago

The use of land (more commonly land use but I’d like the post to stand out) is about who gets what, when, and how. What can be built, where, at what scale, and for whom is settled years before anything goes up, in applications most people never see. Kind of a planner’s version of Lasswell’s definition of politics, but I digress. In BKCB6 and all of NYC, more so.
Anyway, I put everything I’ve built for reading that record in one place. I’ll be adding more related items to to it, but let me know what you think. Also, if anyone is a non-iPhone user who would be interested in demoing the app so that it can be in the Google Play Store, let me know.

The @nycmayor Block-by-Block plan lines up with what this board has been saying for years. Our Statement of District Needs opens every year on the same premise: budgets are moral documents, and politics is who gets what, when, and how. Building and preserving housing has been our top priority year over year. Our district needs assessments and @bkcb6 , unfortunately former, Land Use pro, @rjkobert Rebecca Kobert’s Middle Housing Gone Missing are recommended reading referred to and recommended.

The plan’s Land Inventory Fast Track identifies 120 city-owned sites for 50,970 homes. Two are in CB6: Gowanus Green at 435 Hoyt Street, and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal at 24-64 Kane Street. There is real appetite to add more. 250 Baltic Street and the floors above the CB6 office are both candidates, and neither would require a zoning change.

Advising on policy well means starting from what is actually thereaspopped to a vibes based playbook. So the rent tools carry every StreetEasy listing since 2010, sixteen years of it. Play the timeline and watch rent move month by month in any neighborhood, community board, council district or borough.

Nineteen tools, all public data, covering 59 community districts, 51 council districts and 388 neighborhoods.Link in bio and captions explaining the rest of this grid post as best I can.
bkcb6.app/useofland

The Mayor’s housing plan, read against ten years of data for all 59 community districts, not just ours. Homes completed 2015 to 2024 against how much rent moved over the same period, map by @bkcb6

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2 months ago

The nor’easter is done, but counting the damage isn’t.

Rain totals and wind gusts across @bkcb6 , a live map of the 311 reports, and the @thecitysponge recovery guide are all at bkcb6.app/weather.

If you have damage, report it at reportdamage.nyc.gov, even if it’s small. It counts toward federal help, including SBA disaster loans. Also, if you haven’t ready, file @nyc311 request at nyc.gov/311, or
on.nyc.gov/311catchbasin for a clogged catch basin.
If you filed a 311 request and want me to follow up, email me at Mike@bkcb6.org with the complaint number. taken in Brooklyn Community Board 6 by @bkcb6

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7 days ago

The @nws has a Coastal Flood Warning out for Brooklyn through 6 PM Sunday. They are calling for 2 to 3 feet of water above ground in low-lying areas near the waterfront, widespread moderate to locally major flooding, and numerous road closures. The highest water is expected with the Saturday morning high tide, around 8:23 AM, and another round of moderate to locally major flooding is possible with the Sunday morning high tide.

We know from experience what that means in Red Hook, the Columbia Street Waterfront District and along the Gowanus Canal. If you park near the water, move your car to higher ground before the Saturday morning high tide.

A Wind Advisory is in effect until 6 AM Sunday, with gusts of 40 to 50 mph and up to 55 in some spots. Expect downed tree limbs and power outages. Secure everything outside.

bkcb6.app/weather updates live, with subway and bus status for every line in CB6 and current conditions and rain totals for every CB6 neighborhood. The page also has the full storm alert and flood maps with an address lookup. Link in bio. taken in Brooklyn Community Board 6 by @bkcb6

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10 days ago

Year-round outdoor dining is coming back. The @nyccouncil passed it today and it heads to the Mayor next. No more tearing the setup down every November and rebuilding it in the spring.

Thank you to Council Member @lincolnforcouncil ((who sadly no longer reps any parts of @bkcb6 )for leading the legislation, to Council Members @shahanafrombk and @nyc_council38 for sponsoring and supporting it, and to @bkbpreynoso , a co-sponsor again this time, and for leading the way back when he was a member of the @nyccouncil who led the way on outdoor dining back in 2020.

CB6 was on record for it. Our Business Affairs & Licensing Committee, chaired by @mandi_thom , and then our Transportation Committee, chaired by @brooklynspoke & @tony.melone , each passed a resolution supporting year-round outdoor dining, and our Full Board approved both. by @bkcb6

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2 months ago

Been posting on the grid a lot lately, so it’s entirely possible the 20 picture link dump earlier this week wasn’t the top of your feed on the third week of August. Fair enough.

That one mapped the Mayor’s Block by Block plan, including the Land Inventory Fast Track: 120 city owned sites for 50,970 homes.

The Mayor’s report lists and counts Gowanus Green and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, 6,892 homes between them.

We’d like to add one more. 250 Baltic Street, the four vacant floors above our office. City owned, already zoned for housing.

Letter to Deputy Mayor Bozorg and Commissioner Kitasei is the second image, or read it here: bit.ly/Cb6lift812

bkcb6.app/250baltic
bkcb6.app/blockbyblock taken in Brooklyn Community Board 6 by @bkcb6

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2 months ago

🌧️**RAIN**final concert POSTPONED due to rain forecast on July 28

(new date to follow)

Stay tuned for new date announcement with @boulevardbushmen

Boulevard Bushmen is a jammer born project based out of Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY with reggae, latin, soul, and hip hop influences taken in Cobble Hill Park by @bkcb6

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2 months ago

Heads up for tomorrow, Tuesday 7/21: Per @nycemergencymanagement , severe weather and heavy rain are expected across the city, with the potential for street and roadway flooding.

You can stay on top of it at bkcb6.app/weather (prob not as fast as OEM as they are a, to say the least, a far bigger agency).It has live air quality, current conditions, and forecasts for all six @bkcb6 neighborhoods, plus flood risk maps and more. When there’s a storm or heat emergency, an alert appears right at the top.

bkcb6.app/weather

Link is in bio. by @bkcb6

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2 months ago

🌧️**RAINDATE**music in the park cancelled for July 21 and rescheduled to July 28

Same time, 6-7pm in Cobble Hill Park

We look forward to seeing you all there for our final concert with Boulevard Bushmen

@boulevardbushmen is a jammer born project based out of Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY with reggae, latin, soul, and hip hop influences taken in Cobble Hill Park by @bkcb6

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3 months ago

Check out bkcb6.app/cooldown

On Wednesday, when the calendar flips to July, heat indices are expected to climb above 100° and could reach 109° by Friday. Those are dangerous conditions, and now is the time to make a plan to stay safe.
That said, it already feels hot. It reached 89° outside my office in Cobble Hill today, and I’m thankful for air conditioning. NPR described what we’re heading into as a “heat dome.” I don’t remember hearing that term before, but it basically means several days of intense heat, high humidity, and very little overnight relief, so I figured it was worth mentioning.
With the Mayor announcing a heat emergency this week, I thought it was a good excuse to dig into something I’ve been curious about for a while. I spent some time exploring the City’s heat data and built a page around it. I’m not a climate scientist (unless a lapsed political scientist counts), just someone who enjoys making public information a little easier to understand.
The page includes: • A map of NYC cooling centers • A heat vulnerability map • A land surface heat map showing which parts of Community Board 6 consistently run hottest and coolest
One thing that surprised me is that about four-fifths of CB6 sits above the citywide average for surface heat. The hottest areas are concentrated in Gowanus and Red Hook, while two of the biggest sources of cooling in our orbit aren’t actually inside the district at all: Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
If you don’t have air conditioning at home, please consider staying with family or friends or visiting one of the City’s cooling centers. Official heat safety information is available at nyc.gov/beattheheat or by calling 311.
This project is focused on @bkcb6 , but everyone is welcome to use it, explore the maps, and ask questions, no matter where you are.- @mikeracioppo221

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3 months ago

Check out the results of the June 2026 primary election broken down within Brooklyn Community Board 6’s district.

Search for an address within CB6, and you’ll see how your election district (ED) voted. EDs are our smallest districts, some as small as a block, and the most common way someone will interact with them is that they determine which table you go to at the polling site.
But more importantly, it determines what’s on your ballot.

So, for example, every ballot in the district had New York’s 10th congressional district on the ballot as well as the New York State Comptroller election, while the 52nd Assembly District election was on roughly half of CB6 ballots, as that’s how much overlaps with (Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Waterfront & parts of Park Slope).

If you were registered at 250 Baltic Street, your ballot would have had NY’s 10th Congressional District, NY State Comptroller, and the 52nd Assembly District (AD) on it, as that is within the 46th ED of the 52nd Assembly District. In contrast, if you were registered at 188 Prospect Park West, you’d have NY’s 10th Congressional District and the State Comptroller, as you would be in the 31st ED of AD 44.

Overall, CB6 saw a 6-point increase in participation in 2026 over 2022, the last time we had a competitive congressional primary, with 24,053 ballots cast versus 18,659. As expected, that was a drop from the 2025 mayoral primary’s 38,069.

Lastly, congratulations to Assemblymember @joannesimonforbrooklyn and @nys.comptroller on their wins, and of course to former Brooklyn Community Board 6 member @brad.lander on winning the Democratic primary for NY’s 10th Congressional District.

Check out the maps and charts here, but they are much more interactive at bkcb6.app/2026primary (link in bio). Let me know if you have any questions. Email me at Mike@bkcb6.org. -Mike Racioppo by @bkcb6

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3 months ago