Weigh in on New Citi Bike Stations in Prospect Heights, Crown Heights & Lefferts Gardens

BROOKLYN, NY — The city's Department of Transportation and Community Boards 8 and 9, together covering Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, will host two more public Citi Bike planning session on Dec. 7, during which residents can comment on where their neighborhoods' new bike docking stations should, and shouldn't, be placed.

The sessions will be held at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Saint Francis De Sales School For The Deaf, located at 260 Eastern Pkwy., and will each last for about one hour. Residents can show up at either start time to attend a session.

CB 8 and CB 9 collectively include Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens, among other neighborhoods.

The boards held their first community Citi Bike planning session on Oct. 19, at which more than 900 comments were received, according to a DOT staffer.

The bike sharing system, which is operated by the DOT, is planning on expanding into Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens by the end of 2017.

The expansion area stretches from Flatbush Avenue in the west to Rodgers Avenue in the east, and from Atlantic Avenue in the north to Lefferts Place in the south, as represented in the following map from the DOT (click to enlarge):

If you have any questions about the planning session, you can email Leroy Branch with CB8 at lbranch@dot.nyc.gov, or Nathan Albert with CB9 at nalbert@dot.nyc.gov. You can also reach the DOT's Brooklyn office by calling 646-892-1350.

Community Board 6, which represents Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Red Hook and Gowanus, has been going through its own Citi Bike re-evaluation process after some community members raised objections to the system's 2016 expansion into the board's neighborhoods.

Some of those objecting, however, seemed unaware of the public planning process that had previously taken place to help decide where the stations should be located.

As of last June, Citi Bike logged a record-high 108,000 annual members, according to the city, and was averaging 48,677 rides per day.

Lead photo by Tom Marvel/Flickr