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‘Park Your Fleet’: Harlem Residents Decry Newly Opened Truck Depot On Site of Proposed Housing
A neighborhood that needs more housing and less pollution got the opposite.
January 19, 2023
STREETFILMS: A Great Day in Harlem as Neighborhood Comes Out for Fun, Safety
Scores of riders joined Transportation Alternatives on Saturday's tour of Harlem — and called once again for a bikeway through a neighborhood long neglected for safe cycling infrastructure by city officials.
October 16, 2022
OPINION: Central Harlem Needs a Bikeway—Right Now
A protected lane along the median of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard would be a grand gesture linking Harlem's past to its future. It's also simple justice.
August 26, 2022
PARKING MADNESS 2021: An Upper Manhattan Battle of Two Heavyweights
It's the 3-0 vs. the 3-4 — and everyone has been waiting for this matchup for years.
March 9, 2021
Manhattan CB9 Big: Citi Bike Won’t Get ‘Our’ Parking Without A Fight
There's gonna be a showdown over parking, says Carolyn Thompson.
October 22, 2019
Safety First! De Blasio Overrules Manhattan Community Board For Amsterdam Ave. Fix
A victory for street safety activists as the mayor moves against a board that has resisted improvements.
April 25, 2019
CB9 is ‘Adamant’ in Still Opposing Amsterdam Redesign Despite Fatal Crash Last Week
The West Harlem community board held a press conference on Thursday, invited Borough President Gale Brewer, then openly defied her on DOT's plan for a safer roadway.
March 26, 2019
Damage Control or Double-Down? CB9 To Make Announcement in Wake of Preventable Death
Community Board 9 may embrace a street safety redesign that it has long opposed for upper Amsterdam Avenue — and all it took was a young woman's death along the notorious speedway. Or maybe not.
March 25, 2019
KOMANOFF: Congestion Pricing Will NOT Fill Upper Manhattan With Suburbanites Cruising for Parking
Our expert fires up his transportation spreadsheet and finds that neighborhood fears about a carmaggedon at the edge of congestion pricing zone are unfounded.
March 21, 2019
Street Cheats: Police Hog Bus Stops and Crosswalks on Frederick Douglass Blvd
Scan the streets around any police building in New York, and you'll probably find officers parking their personal vehicles with flagrant disregard for the law. Case in point: NYPD Police Service Area 6 on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem.
March 23, 2018
