The film Changing Lanes (2025) documents the lengthy contested process for neighborhood residents, architect-activists, and others struggling over the redesign of McGuinness Boulevard in Brooklyn. The dedication of many individuals to change the mindset of a city designed for the primacy of car and truck traffic and toward a city with safer streets designed for sharing the roadways and encouraging broader transportation choice is a primary focus of the film. The event will conclude with a moderated panel discussion afterwards that will include the film director and an architect-activist featured in the film.
Speakers:
Bronwyn Breitner, AIA, Architect Activist, BC—OA
Shabazz Stuart, Founder and CEO, Oonee Bike Parking
Ben Wolf, Film Director
About the Speakers:
Bronwyn Breitner is an architect and founding principal of Brooklyn-based architecture studio, BC—OA. She has over 20 years of experience shaping the built environment in New York City in a vast portfolio of both private and public work of all scales. In addition to running her own practice, she has contributed to the next generation of designers through teaching architectural design studios at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. Breitner is also deeply involved in advocating for safe streets through good design. She is a public member of CB1’s Transportation Committee, as well as a civic leader and co-founder of Make McGuinness Safe, a grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to creating a safer, more livable McGuinness Boulevard for her community of North Brooklyn.
Shabazz Stuart is the co-founder and CEO of Oonee Bike Parking. A dynamic young entrepreneur, Stuart is creating attractive and secure bicycle parking solutions which he believes are an essential part of legitimizing micro-mobility.
Ben Wolf has served as cinematographer and co-producer on a wide variety of projects, including the feature documentaries Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (dir. Ben Niles), Ride Rise Roar (dir. Hillman Curtis), Loving Lampposts (dir. Todd Drezner), Obit (dir. Vanessa Gould), The Happy Film (dir. Hillman Curtis/Stefan Sagmeister) and Keeper of Time (dir. Mike Culyba). He also contributed extensively to the photography of Gary Hustwit’s films Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, and Rams. Wolf earned a BA in Philosophy from Yale and an MFA in Film from Columbia. Splitting his time between Brooklyn and Sicily, he is an avid cyclist, and Changing Lanes is his feature documentary directing debut.
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