Bedford Avenue Goes Car-Free (Sort Of)

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I'm ok with this.

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Not exactly the picture of beauty and serenity imagined on CFBA's website, but it'll do for now.

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And no bikes and no hipsters!

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No bikes? i count at lest 5 with just a quick peek!

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I think CFBA should survey the local shops and see how their business did while there was no street parking in front of their shops. Does anyone really think this is a benefit? Why would it be a good idea to funnel all of the neighborhood traffic onto the residential streets? This idea would kill business on Bedford Ave, AND make life for the surrounding residents worse.

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There's been a lot of studies that show that cutting aff the traffic in an American city generally hurts business and creates weird dead zones. Wish I had the link.

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I wonder if it's a matter of the surrounding community in general. Does such a business district in a car-centric city find it hard to lure customers, but a pedestrian-oriented city like NYC may welcome something like this more.

Maybe the moral is you can't necessarily impose this on a city that culturally doesn't buy into walking in general. I think this is more doable in Brooklyn.

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Keep the cars, get rid of the hipsters, and Williamsburg will be livable again...

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it'll be a boring shithole again that you haven't even heard of you mean

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"that you haven't even heard of you mean"

EVERYONE in NYC had heard of Williamsburg before you hipster jerks moved in and thought you made the place.

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How profound. This is happening real esate news? A street in bumfuckburg being repaved? Thanks Curbed for your tremendously insightful reporting. Can you please tell me when Donald Trump or Michael Shvo take a shit too? All these useless irrelevant tidbits of info really make my day.

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i'm wondering why they're repaving all those streets that didn't really need it but a bit further south on bedford near the bridge the street is real crap and they're just leaving it.

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#12 are you retarded? the south part is the rougher, less developed, less gentrified area of Williamsburg where poor people live. Did you really expect them to get services first?