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Bridge Vending Ban Gains Public Support As Vendors Beg For Compromise
The street vendor "span ban" got a lot of support at a public hearing Wednesday.
November 16, 2023
City Seeks All-Out Ban on Vendors on Every Bridge
The city seeks a "span ban" — thanks to vending overcrowding on the Brooklyn Bridge.
October 6, 2023
A Bridge Too Far: City Seeks Authority to Ban Sellers From Spans
DOT wants to officially ban street vendors from its bridges after NYPD temporarily ejected sellers from the Brooklyn Bridge promenade in January — raising the alarm for merchants who say they have fewer and fewer places to hawk their wares.
May 18, 2023
Friday’s Headlines: ‘Intermittent’ Closures on the Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Edition
The Brooklyn Bridge bike lane will experience "intermittent" closures from 10 a.m. to noon on Friday. Plus other news.
April 21, 2023
RED TAPE: DOT Still Hasn’t Started Cable Study It Cited To Delay Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane
The DOT admitted this week that the all-important, must-have, can't-do-anything-without-it cable study — mentioned in 2016, announced in 2017, supposed to start in 2019, and again in 2020 — never actually started.
April 13, 2023
‘The Mayor Wants This’: City Boots Vendors From Brooklyn Bridge — EXCLUSIVE
The city booted vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway and has started deploying regular police patrols to stop them from setting back up on the busy pedestrian path — and the removal orders came straight from Mayor Adams, sellers told Streetsblog.
January 22, 2023
Manhattan Bridge Squeeze: Construction Narrows Tight Bike Paths for Months
The Manhattan Bridge's popular bike path has become a dangerous bottleneck because of construction materials stored there for months — and cyclists are calling on the city to make more room on the span.
November 18, 2022
Comptroller: Here’s How DOT’s $425M Brooklyn Bridge Project Became a $657M Brooklyn Bridge Project
That's 55 percent more than the original cost estimate — and not something that city bean counters were likely to miss.
July 5, 2022
Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Led Ongoing Boom Through 2021
Daily trips over the new eight-foot two-way bike path on the roadbed of the bridge’s Manhattan-bound side soared 27.2 percent across all of 2021, according to data compiled by Bike New York.
March 7, 2022
Need Help Finding the Brooklyn Bridge Foot and Bike Paths? Good Luck!
A plan by the city to help people locate the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge foot and bike paths has stalled.
January 7, 2022
