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OPINION: City Must Protect Bikers, Walkers During Hudson Greenway Closure
A hilly, unsafe detour needs better signage and physical barriers separating vulnerable road users from cars.
June 3, 2022
This Week: A Better Hudson Greenway, a Smarter Sheridan Teardown, and Safer Bikeways for the West Side and Park Slope
The slate of events this week has major implications for the street network in Hunts Point, the West Side of Manhattan, and Park Slope. If you use these streets, get involved and speak up for policies that put walking and biking first.
June 18, 2018
Eyes on the Street: Lights Are Finally Coming to the Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk”
If you ride the Hudson River Greenway at night, these orange cones are a sight for sore eyes.
March 19, 2018
This Week: Hudson Greenway Detour, Bike-Share in Brooklyn
This summer the Parks Department presented a plan to route cyclists away from the waterfront greenway and onto a hilly, poorly-lit path between 72nd Street and 83rd Street. The greenway can get crowded along the water on summer days, but most of the time the current path doesn't pose a problem. Nevertheless, as presented, the Parks Department's proposal would impose a permanent detour for cyclists without providing an adequate replacement.
October 17, 2016
Eyes on the Street: Cyclists Ride New Hudson Greenway Ramp in Inwood
Cyclists and wheelchair users will soon have improved access to the Hudson River Greenway in Inwood, when the Parks Department officially opens a new ramp connecting the greenway to Dyckman Street.
September 8, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Cyclists Told to Walk Riverside-Hudson Greenway Link
We got a couple of e-mails this week about a new directive from the Parks Department ordering cyclists to dismount on the Riverside Park path that connects the Hudson River Greenway and Riverside Drive at W. 72nd Street. On his Flickr page, BicyclesOnly says he learned of the restriction from parks enforcement:
June 23, 2010
Eyes on the Street: Bike-Share Demo on Hudson Greenway
Denver bike-share firm B-cycle has set up a demo station at Pier 84 on the Hudson River Greenway. Reps should be there until around 5:00 today.
April 19, 2010
Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk” Users to Remain in the Dark
In the fall of 2007, 2008, and again this year, Streetsblog readers have alerted us to hazardous conditions on the "Cherry Walk" segment of the Hudson River Greenway. According to the city, no major improvements are in the offing.
November 17, 2009
Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk” Still Dark and Dangerous
Last December, Washington Heights resident Lars Klove alerted us to night-time conditions on a segment of the Hudson River Greenway known as Cherry Walk, which lies roughly between W. 102 and W. 125 Streets. Wrote Lars:
November 26, 2008
Another Interruption Planned for Hudson Greenway
Just after the long-awaited off-road link from Inwood to Battery Park was completed, Streetsblog got word of a pending Hudson River Greenway detour due to planned work by the Port Authority on the Manhattan tower of the George Washington Bridge.
October 27, 2008