Read Gowanus Lounge’s report on the Community Board meeting at Methodist Hospital last night. I’m in Delaware so I wasn’t there. But there’s tons of coverage. Here’s an excerpt.

Nearly 500 people turned out for a Community Board meeting in Park Slope last night to oppose a Department of Transportation proposal to turn Sixth and Seventh Avenue into one-way streets.
More than 160 people squeezed into an auditorium before doors were
closed to chants of "Let them in! Let them in!" Another 200-250 people
listened in a vestibule outside the auditorium and even more people
stood outside on the sidewalk in the rain. The meeting was held at
Methodist Hospital in Park Slope.

The DOT plan was presented by Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia. He faced a sometimes hostile and mocking crowd and presented the rationale for making Sixth Avenue one-way northbound between 23rd Street and Atlantic Avenue and for making Seventh Avenue one-way Southbound between Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Avenue.
"First and foremost it improves safety," Mr. Primeggia said to jeers
from the skeptical audience. Under the plan, he said, "half of all
pedestrian crossings will be unopposed and conflict free." The B-67 bus
would also have to be re-routed because of the change. The DOT Deputy
Commissioner listed added benefits adding parking spaces where bus
stops are eliminated, introducing muni-meters, giving more "green time"
to lights on cross streets. (There is an overall perception in the
community that the proposal is being made to eventually ease the flow
of traffic through Park Slope to Atlantic Yards.) Another proposal, to
eliminate a lane of traffic in each direction from Fourth Avenue and to use them as turning lanes we greeted more openly by the audience.