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Community Leaders Slam DOT for Planned BQE Detours
Community leaders and pols affected by next year's repairs to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are slamming the city for its detour plan.
July 13, 2022
Streetsblog Gets Action: Manhattan Community Board Retreats on Gag Rule
Manhattan's Community Board 7 has abandoned its bid to muzzle members with ties to a prominent street-safety organization, a move undertaken after Streetsblog exposed the effort to change the panel's bylaws.
June 13, 2022
Upper West Side Community Board Tries To Muzzle Street-Safety Activists
Revenge is a dish best served ... by changing the rules.
May 27, 2022
Long-Awaited Upgrades Finally Coming to Schermerhorn Street, DOT Says
The plan apparently includes Schermerhorn Street becoming one way between Smith Street and Third Avenue.
May 17, 2022
Battery Park City Residents Don’t Want South End Avenue Safety Redesign
Safety and cycling — what could be worse for a neighborhood that will be one of the first to be submerged if the world doesn't arrest climate change?
April 20, 2022
City DOT Still Mum on Long-Delayed Fifth Avenue Busway
The busway is still dead in the water, even as bus speeds sink back to pre-pandemic levels and as busways in other boroughs are proving successful.
April 8, 2022
Long Island City Getting Some Protected Bike Lanes
Redesigns are coming to three dangerous corridors, crucial connectors to the Pulaski and Queensboro bridges.
April 6, 2022
Manhattan Community Board Seeks Federal Funds to Straighten Out Hudson River Greenway
Manhattan Community Board 12 is asking the city to use federal infrastructure money to straighten out a notoriously tricky stretch of the Hudson River Greenway.
February 16, 2022
Outdoor Dining Under Fire: Advocates Want Equity at the Curb, Not Parking
The City Council will hear testimony on Tuesday from many opponents of the Open Restaurants program — and livable streets activists agree on one thing with the NIMBYs: curbside space should generate the most public benefit (in other words, it isn't for free parking).
February 7, 2022
Manhattan BP Looks To ‘Balance’ Community Boards By Asking if Applicants Own a Car
Wanted: fewer car owners.
January 18, 2022
