Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Woman Jogging in Prospect Park
A hit-and-run driver struck and critically injured a woman jogging in Prospect Park at around 5 a.m. this morning. The 51-year-old woman was running on the West Drive just north of the tennis courts when the driver of a black vehicle hit her from behind, according to police.
December 7, 2017
Tonight: Speak Up for Safer Walking and Biking on Upper Amsterdam Avenue
DOT will present an update on its redesign for Amsterdam between 113th and 162nd streets, which it first showed to Community Board 9 in March.
December 7, 2017
Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing Clears Community Board 7
The vote means that several hundred car storage slots on West 108th Street will almost certainly give way to hundreds of subsidized apartments.
December 6, 2017
Brooklyn Electeds Press DOT and MTA to Give L Train Riders the Transit They Need
North Brooklyn leaders are worried that the L train shutdown plan won't include the transit-priority treatments that commuters and local businesses are counting on.
December 5, 2017
NYPD Keeps on Junking Up Midtown Streets With Fences and Barricades
While peer cities like London carve out more car-free space on their busiest streets for walking, NYPD is busy dropping metal fencing and concrete barriers all over Midtown, obstructing paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
December 4, 2017
Parks Dept Closes Hudson River Greenway Segment With Little Public Notice
A reader who bikes the greenway daily said there was no advance notice about the detour, which directs cyclists to a pedestrian path that's crowded with joggers and dog walkers. No signs indicate when the closure will end.
December 1, 2017
NYPD Security Theater Takes Manhattan
Obtrusive new police barriers interfering with walking and biking paths are cropping up in Midtown and elsewhere. Do you feel safer, New York?
December 1, 2017
DOT Will Try Out a New Way to Provide Secure Bike Parking
If you need to park your bike outside in New York, you never really know if all your components will be there by the time you get back. Though garages have to provide bike parking options by law, affordable secure bike parking is still in short supply. DOT is looking to change that.
November 30, 2017
RPA’s Vision for Great New York Transit Depends on Fixing a Broken Bureaucracy
The fourth regional plan calls on elected officials to modernize and expand the region's outmoded transit networks.
November 30, 2017
NYPD Tickets Cyclists Where Speeding Driver Killed 14-Year-Old Edwin Ajacalon
For the past two days, police have been ticketing cyclists on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in Brooklyn's 72nd Precinct, just two blocks from where a driver killed 14-year-old Edwin Ajacalon on Saturday.
November 29, 2017
