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Parks Department: City Hopes to Complete High Bridge Rehab This Year
Last year Mayor Bloomberg announced that the long-awaited restoration of the car-free High Bridge would be completed "by 2014." Work began soon after, and the Parks Department tells Streetsblog the rehab is slated to wrap before the year is over.
March 26, 2014
Hudson River Greenway Detour, Set to End This Week, Extended Until March
Since May, Hudson River Greenway users have been detoured from the waterside route between 133rd and 135th Streets to 12th Avenue, which is often full of trucks unloading at the Fairway supermarket. The closure, which signs on the greenway said would end at the end of last month, has been extended through the end of February without explanation.
December 5, 2013
Feds Reject All Three NYC Applications for Latest Round of TIGER Grants
This morning, U.S. DOT announced the winners in the latest round of its highly-competitive TIGER grant program. While upstate New York won grants for two projects -- a highway teardown in Rochester and a complete streets project in Olean -- New York City missed out, with applications for ferry improvements, a greenway connection in the Bronx, and the redesign of a busy intersection in Downtown Brooklyn failing to make the cut.
September 5, 2013
City Lays an Old Board Over Upper Manhattan Greenway Pit
The Parks Department doesn't know when a hole that opened up two months ago on the Hudson River Greenway will be repaired.
August 7, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Hole in the Hudson River Greenway in Washington Heights
A tipster sent us photos of what looks like a sinkhole in the Hudson River Greenway just north of 181st Street, in Washington Heights. These shots were taken Sunday morning.
June 17, 2013
Parks Department Detours Hudson River Greenway in Harlem Until December
The Hudson River Greenway between 133rd Street and 135th Street in West Harlem is closed until December, with users instructed to use 12th Avenue as a detour during the greenway's busiest warm-weather months.
May 14, 2013
Bike Commuters Will Ride Restored High Bridge, After Taking the Stairs
The restored High Bridge will probably be open for morning and evening commutes, but cyclists will be asked to walk their bikes on and off the bridge, according to the Parks Department.
January 17, 2013
Central Park Roadways Will Get More Room for Cyclists and Pedestrians
This evening, DOT, the Parks Department and the Central Park Conservancy announced a change to road configurations in Central Park similar to recent changes in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The plan [PDF] would double available pedestrian space and bring the installation of plastic posts to separate cyclists from walkers and joggers.
September 28, 2012
Eyes on the Street: New and Improved Allen Street Bikeway and Plazas
The construction barriers are down and the tables and chairs are out on Allen Street in Chinatown. While there's still some planting and other work left to be done, the public spaces are already magnets for people. The median bikeway on the three-block stretch between Hester and Delancey is also open and rideable again.
August 8, 2012
In Flushing Meadows, Parking Encroaches on Queens Park Space
When New York City played host to the 1939 World's Fair, the most influential attraction in Flushing Meadows was General Motors' Futurama, a miniature vision of a future with highways crisscrossing through cities and mass ownership of the personal automobile. A science fiction vision at the time, it wasn't far off from what ultimately happened.
August 1, 2012