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Brooklyn Bridge to Be Closed to Cyclists for Bike Traffic Calming
The Brooklyn Bridge will be closed to cyclists this Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for what DOT describes as measures to calm bike traffic on the promenade.
October 31, 2008
NYPD Issuing Warnings to Brooklyn Bridge Cyclists
Last month we wrote about NYPD officers slowing cyclists on the Queensborough Bridge, ostensibly due to ongoing construction work. A tipster tells us that police are now setting up on the Brooklyn Bridge to instruct cyclists to dismount, under threat of receiving a summons.
September 11, 2008
Streetfilms: Biking the Falls
Before the four "New York City Waterfalls" began gushing along the East River this June, DOT marked a bike route passing by each installation and released a guide to go with it. In this Streetfilm Elizabeth Press shows us a recent bike tour of the falls, led by DOT commish Janette Sadik-Khan. Special bonus feature: commentary from "Waterfalls" artist Olafur Eliasson about his work.
August 1, 2008
Watching the Water Fall, by Bike
Next Thursday, artist Olaf Eliasson's much-anticipated "New York City Waterfalls" installation will debut along the East River. The project, as elegantly described in this week's New Yorker, "features four tall, widely separated, openwork steel towers housing
powerful pumps that will pull river water up to a high basin and send
it cascading down again, continuously, from seven in the morning until
ten at night, through mid-October."
June 18, 2008
Eyes on the Street: A Sign of Respect
Looks like there's a new preferred bike route from the Brooklyn Bridge to the west side of Manhattan, and DOT's signs and markings division wants you to know about it. The sign in this shot, snapped by Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson at the foot of the bridge, looks more like what you'd see from behind a windshield than from beneath a bike helmet.
June 6, 2008
A Bridge and Tunnel Transit Solution
Historically, East River bridges have carried more transit -- and more people -- than they do today. View a larger version of this image.
May 12, 2008
Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge
I'd bet that people walking outnumber people bicycling across the Brooklyn Bridge by at least 100 to one. I cycle across the wooden-slatted walkway that soars over the top of the bridge regularly now, and every time I do so I think about this. My rolling bicycle negates the space for scores of people every second, forcing them into a relatively skinny strip that is half as wide as the whole walkway.
November 7, 2007
StreetFilms Cyclist of the Month
Cyclist of the Month: Petra Kirstein
A Streetfilm by Sean Clifford
Running Time: 3 minutes 50 seconds
June 28, 2007
Going Nowhere Fast
This weekend's City section of the New York Times featured a
mind-blowing essay by children's-book writer Sarah Shey about her habit
of taking her one-year-old son out for drives in the city -- drives
with no destination or purpose in mind, in which she crossed and
recrossed the Brooklyn Bridge endless times.
March 26, 2007