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34th Street Select Bus Service Launches This Sunday
It's no physically separated transitway, but bus riders can still get excited about the launch of Select Bus Service along 34th Street this Sunday.
November 11, 2011
UN Deal Clears Way to Close East River Greenway Gap Over Next Decade
The signing of an agreement to close the East River Greenway gap between 38th Street and 60th Street is big news for people who want to enjoy the waterfront on Manhattan's open space-starved East Side. There's finally a realistic plan in place to build a continuous route to walk, run, or bike along the water. When finished, it could form the backbone of the bike network on the East Side.
October 7, 2011
West Side Protected Lanes Get Thumbs Up From CB 4
By a vote of 26 to 10 Wednesday night, Manhattan Community Board 4 endorsed DOT plans to extend the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenue from 34th Street to 59th Street. The bike lanes will improve safety for all users on some of Midtown's most chaotic streets, which pass by Penn Station, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and the Lincoln Tunnel entrance.
October 6, 2011
Wednesday: CB 4 to Vote on West Side Protected Bike Lanes
Community Board 4 will vote Wednesday on the DOT plan to extend protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues north from 34th to 59th Streets.
October 4, 2011
CB 4 Committee Says Yes to West Side Protected Bike Lanes Up to 59th Street
DOT's plan to extend the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues from the low 30s north to 59th Street won unanimous approval from the transportation committee of Community Board 4 last night. With the exception of two blocks of Eighth Avenue in front of the Port Authority, the lanes will be fully protected through the length of Midtown.
September 22, 2011
Dan Biederman: “If You Try to Change Things, You Get Opposition”
Here's the second installment of Streetsblog's interview with Dan Biederman, head of the 34th Street Partnership and the Bryant Park Corporation. In the first part of the interview, Biederman discussed reactions to NYC DOT's recent public space projects on Broadway, and why the reality on the ground is much better for Midtown than most press accounts have let on.
August 4, 2011
A Verbal Tour of Midtown With Public Space Maestro Dan Biederman
Before Dan Biederman came to Bryant Park, there were no movable chairs, no free movies on summer evenings, no kiosks selling sandwiches and refreshments. No lunch time crowds and not much in the way of civic life or social activity, either. There was, basically, an open-air drug market in the New York Public Library's backyard.
August 3, 2011
“Midtown in Motion” to Come With Rad Driver-Distracting Apps
As it is, the NYC DOT “Midtown in Motion" initiative is a bit of a head-scratcher. To learn that the city is devoting well over a million dollars in addition to staff resources to speed up car traffic in Midtown, which the mayor has declared the "lifeblood" of the CBD -- is it 2006 again?
July 21, 2011
High-Tech Midtown Traffic System Will Ignore Pedestrians and Buses
The Department of Transportation is rolling out a response to Midtown traffic congestion that is as high-tech as it is intellectually outdated. Microwave sensors, video cameras, and E-ZPass readers will gather traffic information in real-time and beam the information to the DOT's Queens command center, where engineers will instantly adjust the traffic lights as needed in an attempt to fine-tune the workings of the traffic grid.
July 20, 2011
NYPD: Curb-Jumper Hit Senior While Parking, “No Criminality Suspected”
We have an update from NYPD on the curb-jumping motorist who struck and injured a pedestrian in Midtown this morning. Police said the driver hit a 73-year-old woman on the sidewalk while attempting to back into a parking space on 58th Street. The victim was sent to New York Presbyterian Hospital with serious head injuries, according to NYPD; she is now in stable condition.
July 19, 2011