Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Chinatown

Canal Street's heavy midday traffic snakes through Chinatown. Photo: Kevin Duggan

UNDER FURTHER REVIEW: DOT To Study Canal Street For Bike and Pedestrian Improvements This Year

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments

The eight-month analysis will mark yet another study of the corridor — and the area's council member urged the Adams administration to actually get stuff done this time.

A DOT rendering shows the future plaza on Doyers Street. Image: DOT

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Chinatown’s Doyers Open Street to Become a Car-Free Plaza

By Eve Kessler | Jul 19, 2022 | No Comments

A street that is useless for motorists in a neighborhood with virtually no open space will finally get the treatment it, and its neighbors, deserve.

As you (and this endangered cyclist) can see, the city has started scrubbing some lines and adding others to carve out a protected bike lane on Centre Street. Photos: Gersh Kuntzman

Eyes on the Street: The Dawn of a Better Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane!

By Streetsblog | Jul 14, 2022 | No Comments

The road to nowhere is on its way to oblivion.

It's Chinatown vs. Tribeca in this Lower Manhattan clash.

PARKING MADNESS 2021: A Lower Manhattan Clash to Settle it Once and For All

By Streetsblog | Mar 11, 2021 | No Comments

It's the First Precinct vs. the Fifth Precinct.

SEE IT: Car-Free Mott Street is a Model for All Commercial Zones

By Streetsblog | Jul 30, 2020 | No Comments

Boosters say Mott Street points the way to what can be done citywide.

CB2 is trying to avoid this typical scene in residential areas: delivery trucks drouble-park and endanger cyclists and motorists. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Manhattan Panel to DOT: Use Curbside Space for More Than Just Parking

By Dave Colon | Feb 24, 2020 | No Comments

It's a trend! Another Manhattan community board has demanded that the DOT figure out how to reallocate curb space so that roadways are not such a chaotic, unsafe mess.

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