Skip to Content
Streetsblog New York City home
Streetsblog New York City home
Log In
Bicycling

Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets Gallery #1

bikes_and_peds_share.jpg

Reader Jen Petersen sends this shot of the intersection of Lafayette and Spring on Saturday, along with her observations of how pedestrians, cyclists, and everyone else shared the road during Summer Streets:

In the absence of special pavement markings delineating lanes for walkers, runners, cyclists, rollerbladers/skaters, people with children (and strollers), and others, we had to be responsible for our footprints. The burden of regulating our interactions and avoiding altercations was on us; NYPD was only keeping the current conflict-free where it met automobiles at transverse streets. And so it seems when we travel at more-or-less the same speed, and the journey is itself the destination, we somehow figure out how to use each other as signposts. Now if we could just figure this out on a workday, in all five boroughs...

More reader-submitted photos after the jump, and more to come tomorrow...

park_51st.jpg
prant1_1.jpg

prant2.jpg

Top photo of Park Avenue north of Grand Central: Philly Bike Coalition/Flickr
Bottom two photos: Jeff Prant

Taking a breather by the south facade of Grand Central. Photo: BicyclesOnly/Flickr

bike_share_station.jpg

Free bike rentals on Lafayette. Photo: Philly Bike Coalition/Flickr

puppy.jpg

Puppy on board. Photo: cafrizell/Flickr

Thanks for adding your pics to Streetsblog's Flickr pool -- there's more on the way!

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog New York City

Likely Council Speaker Julie Menin Claims She’ll Work With Mamdani On Livable Streets

Julie Menin has declared victory in the City Council Speaker race, but will she be a friend or foe to the livable streets movement?

December 10, 2025

A Car Driver Ripped Off a Woman’s Leg in Broad Daylight

A Brooklyn driver drove onto a busy sidewalk in central Williamsburg and maimed a 33-year-old pedestrian. Why can't our officials prevent this kind of predictable incident?

December 10, 2025

Wednesday’s Headlines: Dueling Rallies Edition

Astoria was ground zero in the fight for safe streets yesterday, with dueling rallies over the 31st Street bike lane. Plus other news.

December 10, 2025

Speaker Adams to Sink Daylighting Bill: Advocates

The last-minute move shatters years of grass roots advocacy.

December 9, 2025

Ex-FDNY Boss: Queens Judge ‘Wrongly’ Pit FDNY vs. DOT in Bike Lane Ruling

The former head of the FDNY slammed a Queens judge for pitting the Fire Department against the safe streets movement in a ruling that erased a bike lane.

December 9, 2025

Here’s Everything Wrong With the Judge’s Order to Rip Up the 31st Street Protected Bike Lane

A Queens judge overstepped her jurisdiction when she ordered the city to rip up a protected bike lane in Astoria, experts said.

December 9, 2025
See all posts