Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

This was Rockefeller Center last Christmas season. Photo: Stunt Queen

YULE BE PLEASED: City Plans to Help Ease Holiday Congestion in Midtown

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 30, 2019 | No Comments

The resulting reallocation will be almost double the amount of pedestrian space on Fifth Avenue near Rockefeller Center. Alas, it's as temporary as the Christmas season.

This was a portion of Broadway on the Upper West Side on September 21 — neighbors meeting neighbors, kids playing, life slower. Photo: Jeff Prant

City Slow-Walks a Great Plan to Pedestrianize Part of Broadway

By Eve Kessler | Oct 28, 2019 | No Comments

DOT says it is developing ideas for reclaiming the street on the Upper West Side. But it'll take a few years!

Council Member Chaim Deutsch (with Mary Majao and Angel Farachio, 10-year-old Enzo Farachio's parents) wants the city to install bollards at every bus stop after Farachio was killed by a driver while waiting at one. Photo: Julianne Cuba.

Brooklyn Pol Offers Poor Fix After Death of 10-Year-Old Boy: Advocates

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 20, 2019 | 18 Comments

“All bus stops should have bollards,” Council Member Chaim Deutsch said.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson chats with Families for Safe Streets advocate Amy Cohen, holding a picture of her son, Sammy, who was killed by a driver. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Corey Johnson’s Bold Words Show Leadership — And How We Can Hold Him Accountable

By Streetsblog | Sep 17, 2019 | 6 Comments

The Speaker's self-stated mission is to "break the car culture." If he becomes mayor, he owns that.

The chaotic intersection of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, where 60-year-old Michael Collopy was hit and killed by a cyclist. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Eyes on the Street: Michael Collopy is Dead Because the City Failed Him

By Julianne Cuba | Aug 13, 2019 | 24 Comments

City officials are under fire following the death of a pedestrian after an apparent collision with a cyclist in Chelsea last month — but they’re being slammed not doing more to protect the most vulnerable road users at many poorly designed intersections in the city where cars are outnumbered yet get the vast majority of the […]

The driver made a right turn from Ninth Avenue onto W. 17th Street when he struck 31-year-old Firstess Earth Crosby, who died from her injuries months later on July 22.

No Charges for Driver Who Ran Over a Woman — Twice — In a Crosswalk

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 24, 2019 | 7 Comments

Another pedestrian is dead in an already bloody week in an already very bloody year — and, yet again, the truck driver who killed her inside a marked crosswalk has not been charged.

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