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Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child’s Death
The city's public schools are back in session today, and students, parents and staff at P.S. 24 in Sunset Park should have a safer intersection to contend with at 38th St. and Fourth Ave., near a BQE off-ramp, following a simple signal timing adjustment.
September 4, 2007
Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe
A Streetsblog reader brings us an update on the case of the cyclist killed last December in the Central Park Transverse, through information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
August 22, 2007
Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing
Council Member Alan Gerson bikes in support of safer cross-town cycling route for Lower Manhattan, Sept. 2006. Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel
August 13, 2007
Meatpacking Plaza Update
Here's another photo from Mike Epstein showing progress on the Ninth Avenue redesign at 15th and 14th Streets. The photo is looking southbound.
August 1, 2007
Effective Traffic Calming Device: The Frisbee
From Sean Roche at the Newton Streets and Sidewalks blog:
July 27, 2007
In Chicago, Parks Funded By Parking Garages
Mayor Richard Daley has been aggressive in transforming Chicago into a more livable city, cracking down on sociopathic motorists, encouraging traffic-calming, promoting bicycling and paying attention to the nitty gritty environmental impacts of street design. The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the Mayor's latest effort to fund citywide park-improvements projects using revenues from city-owned parking garages:
July 16, 2007
More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos
More shots of the street redesign project underway just north of 14th Street at Ninth Avenue:
July 13, 2007
It’s Getting Better All the Time
NYC is ChangingA StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr.
Running Time: 1 minute 55 seconds
July 9, 2007
Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes
The debate is over, and as of today the Ninth St. bike lanes are swiftly becoming a reality.
July 5, 2007
No Exit, Upper West Side Style
Over on the New York Times's City Room blog, Sewell Chan reports on opposition to the July 8 closing of the West 72nd St. exit ramp from the West Side Highway, a move that has been fought in court for years by neighborhood activists. The off-ramp is being demolished at the request of the Extell Development Company, which is constructing the massive Riverside South residential complex, to enable the extension of Riverside Boulevard, the complex's main street. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has tried to make the case that poses a security risk, issuing a statement that said, in part:
July 5, 2007