Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Chelsea

Looking down the highway-like 10th Avenue. File photo: Dave Colon

DOT Unveils Long-Awaited 10th Ave. Bike Lane; Locals Say Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough

By Kevin Duggan | Nov 21, 2022 | No Comments

Manhattan's Community Board 4 Transportation committee unanimously voted in favor of the proposal, but the panel pushed DOT to go further and add more physical barriers to shield cyclists and walkers from cars.

Too many sidewalks look like this. File Photo

Manhattan Community Board Demands Stricter Sanitation Rules for Apartments

By Eve Kessler | Oct 3, 2022 | No Comments

Community Board 4 wrote to Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch to outline a raft of new regulations that could curtail New York's infamous "5 o'clock shadow" — and unanimously offered the neighborhood as a laboratory for change.

As you can see, cyclists are squeezed between two wide roads at the Chelsea Piers — the complex's driveway (left) and West Street (right). Photo: Charles Komanoff

CHELSEA FEARS: Locals Want More Space for Bikes at Waterfront Rec Center

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 28, 2022 | No Comments

Members of Manhattan's Community Board 4 want the Chelsea Piers complex to reduce the width of its driveway to create a safer Hudson River Greenway at one of its notorious pinch points.

This is how most New Yorkers experience the sidewalk: squeezed between trash and building lines. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

SURVEY SAYS: West Side Sidewalks are Unsafe and Unclear — And the City Must Act

By Fiifi Frimpong | May 28, 2021 | No Comments

New York's sidewalks are chopped up and dirty — and Hells Kitchen and Chelsea residents continue their fight to change that.

More please, says the Council. File photo: Dave Colon

SMILE! M14 Ridership Is Up As More Camera Enforcement Comes to the Busway

By Dave Colon | Nov 21, 2019 | No Comments

The Busway just keeps rolling, and car owners are staying on the run.

Bus-boarding platforms like this one are coming soon to 14th Street. Photo: DOT

Raised Boarding Platforms Will Make 14th Street Busway Even Better

By Dave Colon | Nov 6, 2019 | No Comments

On-street bus-boarding platforms will make bus service even better.

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