A tipster sent this photo of the sidewalk expansion underway at the corner of Riverside Drive and W. 116th Street in Manhattan. (It's one of the elements in a DOT safety plan for Riverside that survived after the agency watered down the project at the behest of Community Board 9.)
Once the concrete is poured, the distance to walk across Riverside will be shorter and drivers will have to make slower turns onto 116th around the squared-up corner.
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