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PEACHES AND CREAM: Inside the City’s Berry Street ‘Bike Boulevard’ Plan
Last month, the city unveiled a plan to convert the existing Berry Street “open street” into a true “bike boulevard,'' but what does that mean? Let Streetsblog guide you…
July 11, 2022
EYES ON THE STREET: Walking Across the Queensboro Bridge is So Dangerous, It Feels Illegal
No government would place citizens on foot in such potential harm (would it?).
July 5, 2022
UPDATED: EYES ON THE STREET: Dereliction of Duty in the Heights and Inwood
How many trashed cars, vans and RVs can uptown neighborhoods take? DSNY and NYPD are inflicting an unnatural experiment on two low-income, Latino areas.
March 14, 2022
EYES ON THE STREET: East Side Bike Lane Where Driver Killed Two Remains Unfixed
Where's Ydanis? A month after a preventable tragedy, long-noted flaws persist.
January 27, 2022
Eyes on the Street: The Broadway Bridge Construction is a Clusterf—k
Long-term unsafe conditions will continue on the Broadway Bridge spanning the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Inwood and Marble Hill as the city rehabs the key Harlem River crossing.
December 14, 2021
Eyes on the Street: The Jay Street Busway is Being Undermined by Illegal Car Traffic
One year after the Jay Street Busway was boosting bus speeds for almost 50,000 daily riders, commutes for long-suffering bus riders are slowing as more drivers flout the basic rule, "No cars allowed."
October 26, 2021
Drivers, Pedestrians are Already Trashing the Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path
The newly opened Brooklyn Bridge bike path is being defiled with garbage that's either cascading down from the pedestrian path or tossed by drivers over the short fence from the car lanes. But DOT is on it!
October 22, 2021
DOT Deploys Planters to Beautify and Secure City’s ‘Gold Standard’ Open Street
The agency said the planters were installed "in response to concerns we heard from local residents."
September 3, 2021
Will New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path Also Reform a Notorious Placard Zone?
The protected bike lane on the roadbed of the Brooklyn Bridge is about to open, but the real news is what the Department of Transportation is doing just north of the bridge's Manhattan end — where a redesign of Foley Square has the potential to clean up one of the most notorious placard abuse zones in the city.
August 27, 2021
