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This Week: Better Transit in Flushing, Safer Streets in Harlem
By Streetsblog |
Not to count chickens before they hatch, but if you’re thinking of going on Saturday’s Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride, the weather will probably cooperate and spare you the broiling heat of this past weekend. Right now, the forecast for Brooklyn predicts the mercury won’t rise above 90 degrees. Tuesday: Come out to Flushing High School […]
This Week: Safer Walking and Biking Across the Harlem River
By Streetsblog |
With few exceptions, getting across the Harlem River bridges isn’t exactly convenient or safe if you’re walking or biking. To fix that, a series of four DOT workshops to gather ideas about improving access between the Bronx and Manhattan kicks off this week. The meetings will inform the recommendations in DOT’s Harlem River Bridges Access Plan, to be released […]
This Week: Tell DOT How to Improve the Harlem River Bridges
By Streetsblog |
It’s a short week, but a busy one. The highlight: Public workshops where you can weigh in on DOT’s effort to improve bicycling and walking across the Harlem River Bridges. See the full slate of events on the Streetsblog calendar. Here are the highlights: Today: The Brooklyn Community Board 3 transportation committee will discuss the recent expansion […]
Tonight: Final Round of Harlem River Bridge Workshops Gets Started
By David Meyer |
We have some late additions to the Streetsblog calendar. At 6:30 p.m. today at the Rio II Gallery on Riverside Drive, DOT will hold the first of four community workshops as part of the third and final phase of preparation for the Harlem River Bridges Access Plan, set to be released this spring. Last year, responding to uptown […]
Walking Tour: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York: LOMEX Remembered
By Aaron Donovan |
In conjunction with a new exhibition, Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York, eight walking tours will take participants to places associated with Jane Jacobs’ life and work and to communities that illustrate her planning principles — or call them into question. LOMEX RememberedImagine it, an elevated eight-lane highway slicing through the heart of […]
A Look at the Safer, Smoother First Ave in East Harlem and Upper East Side
By Ben Fried |
We mentioned this briefly in a post about the bike access improvements on the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge, but the redesign of First Avenue in East Harlem and the Upper East Side is completed and worth a closer look. On October 15, DOT announced that work had wrapped up on the First Avenue project, […]