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Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway?
Word has it that the city is finally cracking down on uncivil servants' illegal parking privileges. Was this the final outrage that finally spurred the Bloomberg Administration to take action?
February 21, 2007
34th Street Partnership Explains the Icey Snow in the Bike Lane
On Tuesday we posted an "Eyes on the Street" item looking at the sorry, snowed-in condition of the bike lane running through Herald Square.
Seth Taylor at the 34th Street Partnership sends along the photo above and explains:
February 21, 2007
Quick, Someone Get Me a Shovel
Last week, we saw the sorry condition of the new on-street bike route in Times Square and thought to ourselves how much better things would be if only bikes had some truly protected turf in the Crossroads of the World. Alas, just a half-mile south, our idealistic thoughts were quashed by this depressing visage:
February 20, 2007
Today’s Rally Against Pedicab Regulations
Chad Marlow of the Public Advocacy Group is at the podium.
February 13, 2007
Is a 1.3 mph Increase in Crosstown Traffic Speed “Innovative?”
The Staten Island Advance reports on Monday's press conference outlining the qualities that leading City Council members would like to see in the next DOT Commissioner. The Bloomberg Administration
responded to the Council with the following statement:
February 7, 2007
Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices
Via a Streetsblog tipster: In Valley Village, Calif., near L.A., people leave their trash in the bike lane for the convenience of the sanitation crews.
January 11, 2007
Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish
Monday night was the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project. About 130 neighborhood stakeholders filled the gym at the Holy Cross School in Midtown to begin a process to transform Ninth Avenue from a dysfunctional, traffic-choked, polluted highway into, what organizer Christine Berthet says should be "a neighborhood Main Street" for Hell's Kitchen and Clinton.
January 10, 2007
Bloomberg on Bicycling
Unlike the Mayors of Chicago, London, Paris and a growing number of other world cities, it is exceedingly rare to hear New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg say anything at all in public about bicycling. So, we thought that this was an interesting big of reporting in The Villager last week:
January 8, 2007
Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety
A sacrifice we were willing to make: Until 1922, much of Park Avenue was, in fact, a park. Looking north on Park Ave at about 50th Street. That's Saint Bartholomew's Church on the right.
January 4, 2007