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‘End Legal Murder In NYC’! Hundreds Mourn Cyclist Robyn Hightman in Memorial Ride
Hundreds of cyclists rode from Williamsburg to Chelsea last night, taking over the roadway from lower Manhattan to 23rd Street, in a memorial ride for 20-year-old Robyn Hightman, a bike courier who this week became the 12th cyclist killed on New York City streets in 2019.
June 28, 2019
Op-Ed: Riverside Park Greenway Bike Bypass is An Accident Waiting To Happen
The newly designated detour on the nation’s busiest cycling path is well intentioned. Recently a 4-year-old child was injured by a speeding cyclist on the greenway. But the "solution" is deeply flawed — so flawed, in fact, that the city should reconsider its decision forcing cyclists to use the bypass.
June 27, 2019
Streetsblog Gets Action! DOT Repaints Basic Markings on the Brooklyn Bridge
The Department of Transportation, under fire for not ensuring safety on the Brooklyn Bridge bike and walking path, has finally painted a new center stripe and lane markings to discourage pedestrians and cyclists from mixing.
June 27, 2019
Pedestrian Struck and Killed in Flushing — No Tickets Issued
A Flushing driver killed a pedestrian on Saturday, this time on dangerous Main Street, where disorder and chaos rule.
June 24, 2019
UPDATED: 14th Street Landowners Sue City over Car-Free ‘Busway’
The 14th Street Coalition says the DOT plan violates state environmental law because the agency didn't conduct a serious assessment of the impact that banning cars from 14th Street would have on neighboring residential streets.
June 21, 2019
Paper Plates from Jersey Make Scamming NYC Easy!
Car dealerships in upper Manhattan are taking parking theft to a new level of scam.
June 21, 2019
Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists
The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.
June 21, 2019
City Will Defy Community Board and Paint Bay Ridge Bike Network
Two days after a Bay Ridge community board shot down a city plan for a starter kit of painted bike lanes — and one day after the neighborhood's elected officials demanded action — the Department of Transportation said it would ignore the board's vote and initiate its plan anyway.
June 20, 2019
Man Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver in the Bronx
Police say that Christopher Nieves was crossing the southbound Bruckner service road near Austin Place at around 6 a.m. when he was hit by the driver of a brown or tan Chevy Tahoe, a mammoth vehicle.
June 16, 2019
Reporter’s Notebook: Corey’s a ‘Master’ Planner — And Other City Hall Takeaways
Council Speaker Corey Johnson has a problem with free parking — and other highlights from this week's hearing on the Speaker's landmark "master plan" bill for street safety.
June 13, 2019
