Eyes on the Street: A Special Lane for Parking Cars

By Aaron Donovan
Jun 6, 2007

This was the scene along the Edward L. Grant Highway in the Bronx on May 27, where the southbound buffered bike lane near Jerome Avenue was being blocked by SUVs from Florida and New Jersey and assorted other vehicles. The bike lane markings here are worn out by the constant wear and tear of automobile tires. A complete lack of enforcement makes this bike lane inadequate for cycling and a great benefit for auto mechanics and double-parkers.

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Eyes on the Street: A Better Bikeway Linking the High Bridge to Highbridge

By Ben Fried | Jun 22, 2015

Ten days ago, DOT broke ground on a nice set of new bike lanes linking Upper Manhattan to the reopened High Bridge. Meanwhile, bike access improvements on the Bronx side are already pretty far along. This is the new contraflow bike lane on 170th Street, leading east from the High Bridge. It’s part of a package […]

Eyes on the Street: Outlines Appear for Seaman Avenue Bike Lane, Sharrows

By Brad Aaron | Apr 1, 2016

Preliminary markings for a bike lane and sharrows appeared on Seaman Avenue in Inwood yesterday, nearly two years after DOT resurfaced the street. Seaman Avenue runs from Dyckman/200th Street to W. 218th Street. The only north-south through street in Inwood west of Broadway, Seaman serves as a bike connection between the Hudson River Greenway and the Bronx, in addition […]

Fresh green paint at 45th Street. Photo: David Meyer

Eyes on the Street: The Shrinking Second Avenue Bike Lane Gap

By David Meyer | Jun 7, 2017

From 59th Street to 43rd Street there's now a green curbside bike lane on Second Avenue (tuff curbs to come). The remaining gaps in the bike lane are near the Queensboro Bridge and Queens-Midtown Tunnel.

Eyes on the Street: Drivers Retake the Kent Avenue Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Sep 24, 2014

DOT reconfigured the southern part of the Kent Avenue bike lane this spring, but that hasn’t stopped drivers from taking over the lane and the sidewalk for personal parking. A reader took this photo earlier today. He writes: I bike from LIC to Clinton Hill every morning and use the Kent Ave bike path. Luckily […]

The new protected bike lane taking shape on 133rd Street east of St. Ann's Avenue. Photo: David Meyer

In the Works: Safer South Bronx Bike Connections to Randall’s Island

By David Meyer | Oct 3, 2017

DOT crews are building out two protected bike lane routes linking the neighborhoods north of the Bruckner Expressway to the island.

Eyes on the Street: Upper Manhattan’s First Protected Bike Lane in Progress

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2015

Reader Jonathan Rabinowitz sent this photo of Upper Manhattan’s first protected bike lane, now under construction on Fort George Hill, a one-way street that connects Dyckman Street in Inwood with Fairview Avenue to the south, along the western border of Harlem River Park. This project will give cyclists a north-south route between Inwood and Washington Heights by allotting 11 feet of […]