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Bumpy Road: Ocean Parkway Cyclists Won’t Get Relief From Cracked Bike Path Until 2022
A rough road remains for bikers, pedestrians seeking access to Coney Island's attractions and beaches.
September 4, 2019
No Big Changes Coming to Dangerous Riverside Park Bike ‘Detour’
Cyclists think the Parks Department is not taking safety concerns seriously along a hastily built, steep, dark, root-damaged detour from the Hudson River Greenway that was installed to separate pedestrians from cyclists along the much-used river route.
July 22, 2019
Parks Department ‘Ghosts’ Memorial For Slain Marine Park Cyclist [UPDATED]
"Here we are today unable to understand what I can only describe as the equivalent of grave robbery," a relative said.
July 11, 2019
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Cyclists Deserve Their Own Lane During Fleet Week, Like They Had in 2003
It’s simple: close a lane of car travel on the West Side Highway.
May 23, 2019
Council Member Dromm to DOT Commish: Build Full Travers Park or Betray Vision Zero
Jackson Heights Council Member Daniel Dromm unleashed hell on Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg on Friday because of the de Blasio administration’s apparent capitulation to a politically connected car-dealership.
May 11, 2019
Scott Stringer Channels Robert F. Kennedy in Vision for Mid-Block Playgrounds
A back-to-the-future plan to turn through streets into cul-de-sacs with playgrounds in the middle (and FedEx on the sidewalk).
April 29, 2019
City Officials Were a No-Show At Monday Night’s Massive Jackson Heights Town Hall
The plan was to remove cars from a single block. Then a car dealership demanded some of the public space. Now city officials aren't talking.
April 16, 2019
SEE IT! Hundreds Rally to Keep Cars Out of Travers Park in Jackson Heights
It's a dangerous, combustible situation. Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. covered Saturday's rally and filed this film report.
March 31, 2019
The City Might Give Up Its Plan to Ban Cars On One Jackson Heights Street
The city may surrender a years-in-the making plan to transform a Jackson Heights street into a pedestrian friendly car-free plaza because of a well-connected, wait for it, car dealership!
March 21, 2019
Ocean Parkway Bike Path to Get Long Overdue Fix
The city's first bike lane will no longer be the city's worst bike lane.
February 12, 2019