Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper East Side

Motorcycles take up less space, are easier on roads, and pollute less than cars. Photo: Chris Sequeira

Opinion: After Revel’s Retreat, Whither the Motorcycle in NYC?

By Chris Sequeira | Jul 30, 2020 | No Comments

The experience of the e-scooter service showed the need for better safety education. But, with proper rules and encouragement, motorcycles could enhance mobility while reducing cars.

An NYPD SUV blocks open space inside Carl Schurz Park at around 90th Street, making it impossible for pedestrians and ferry riders to walk south. Photo: Steven Vago

STREET THIEVES: NYPD Seizes Park Paths, Hindering Access to Mayor de Blasio’s Ferry for No Reason

By Steven Vago | Jun 17, 2020 | No Comments

The tale of two cities is right there in Hizzoner’s backyard.

Thunder Road: Third Avenue (looking north from 61st Street), a straight shot for speeding vehicles, has seen a lot of illegal drag racing since the start of the pandemic. Photo: Liam Jeffries

Op-Ed: Courting Death on the Third Avenue Speedway

By Liam Jeffries | Apr 22, 2020 | No Comments

COVID-19 has turned an East Side road into a race course where pedestrians cling to tight-rope-like sidewalks. How long until somebody dies?

We've run this image before, but it shows how little needs to be done to make our neighborhoods safer and better. Rendering: Massengale & Co LLC, and Dover, Kohl & Partners

Op-Ed: Let’s Build a Network of ‘Quiet Streets’

By John Massengale | Mar 30, 2020 | No Comments

COVID19 demonstrates the need for more space for people — like this gorgeous rendering above.

Workers toiled at the Second Avenue Subway's 86th St. cavern in January, 2014. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew

Op-Ed: The Second Avenue Subway’s Lessons for American Transit

By Philip Mark Plotch | Mar 9, 2020 | No Comments

How to avoid the mistakes that make the East Side line, the most costly subway extension ever built.

Yes, it's scary: A pedestrian peers at the Central Park intersection where a cyclist collided with a pedestrian Monday afternoon. Photo: Eve Kessler

Ex-Parks Commissioner: I Won’t Bike in Central Park Anymore

By Eve Kessler | Sep 2, 2019 | 113 Comments

A delivery man on a e-bike wiped out after striking a pedestrian at a dangerous intersection. What's the city going to do about it?

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