Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper East Side

A rendering shows an idea for a promenade in Yorkville. The image is an aerial view of Second Avenue, looking south from 86th Street. Image: ©2011 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?

KOMANOFF: Congestion Pricing Will NOT Fill Upper Manhattan With Suburbanites Cruising for Parking

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 21, 2019 | 19 Comments

Our expert fires up his transportation spreadsheet and finds that neighborhood fears about a carmaggedon at the edge of congestion pricing zone are unfounded.

Pedestrian Killed by SUV Driver Trying to Park on Upper East Side

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 30, 2019 | 37 Comments

An Upper East Side pedestrian was run down by a driver who was going in reverse to get a parking space on E. 91st Street late on Tuesday, police said.

The woman on the left had a little too much to say.

Today’s Edition of “S#!t We Put Up With Every F@&%ing Day”

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 29, 2018 | 40 Comments

Seriously, what is this woman thinking?

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