Landmarks
Top Categories
They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It
The Brooklyn Paper reports that there's talk brewing about seizing an opportunity to bury the section of the BQE that runs underneath the Promenade, rather than simply repair it (right, the Atlantic Ave. overpass where the roadway rises near the site of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park and the One Brooklyn condo development):
April 20, 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
Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief
This Morning's Forum: Road Pricing Worked in London. Can It Work in New York?
December 7, 2006
Queensboro Bridge Area Safety Under Scrutiny
Among the three cyclist fatality clusters identified by the joint report by the City Departments of Health, Police, Parks and Transportation, the Queensboro Bridge is by far the worst. The entrance intersection at 60th and Second also claimed the award for the most unticketed incidents of block the box in the Borough President's study of lax enforcement of basic traffic rules.
November 6, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Washington Square Park
These burned-out cars on Washington Square Park were the result of:a) A rowdy Halloween Critical Mass ride on Friday.b) An alternate side of street parking mishap. c) The filming of the next Will Smith movie
October 31, 2006
DOT’s Missed Opportunity on the Manhattan Bridge
On Friday, Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall stood up in front of 600 people at Borough President Stringer's Transportation Policy Conference and said that her agency was serious about reducing car use in New York City. It was a great policy speech.
October 16, 2006
Would you pay a Half Dollar to Bike Across the GWB?
An outraged reader points us to Benepe's Bike Blog where journalist, cyclist (and sister of New York City's Parks Commissioner) Jennifer Benepe has been working to improve bicycle access to the George Washington Bridge.
October 10, 2006
The Queensboro Meat Grinder
Classic Scene near Queensboro Bridge on Second Avenue (note red light!) Every morning I walk past scenes like this near the Queensboro Bridge (QBB) on Second Avenue. Traffic blocks up on Second Avenue north of the two major crosstown exit routes at 60th and 57th Streets all the way to 70th Street and beyond. The … Continued
September 26, 2006