Eyes on the Street: Green Lane Sighting on Second Avenue at 122nd Street

By Ben Fried
Oct 18, 2012

Streetfilms’ Elizabeth Press was uptown today working on a piece about East Harlem’s long-awaited protected bike lanes. She passes along this view of the almost-rideable green lane on Second Avenue. Waiting for paint to dry has never been so thrilling.

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DOT to Extend East Side Bike Lanes to 57th, But Mostly With Shared Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Apr 28, 2011

The First and Second Avenue bike lanes on Manhattan’s East Side will only be extended from 34th Street to 57th Street this year, not up to 125th Street as advanced in a plan that won community board approvals in 2010. While First Avenue will receive Manhattan’s first northbound parking-protected bike lane above 34th Street, the […]

The bike lane on 61st Street, looking west toward Lexington Avenue. Photo: Liam Jeffries

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The East Side Crosstown Bike Lanes Re-Emerge

By Liam Jeffries | Aug 25, 2021

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Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Sighting on the Upper East Side

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2012

Reader Liz Patek sends these shots of the new road markings on First Avenue in the 60s. The protected bike lane that Manhattan Community Board 8 approved last summer is going in. Until now there was no bike infrastructure at all on First Avenue between 60th Street and 72nd Street. Filling that gap is DOT’s […]

Let the griping begin. Photo: David Meyer

The Upper East Side Can Still Deliver an Old-Fashioned Bike Lane Kvetchfest

By David Meyer | Jul 10, 2018

True to form, last night's Upper East Side community board meeting about bike lanes was a ridiculous carnival of vituperative whining.

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: The Nascent First Avenue Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Jul 12, 2010

The beginnings of the First Avenue protected bike lane, at St. Mark’s Place. Photo: Ben Fried It’s not finished yet, but some segments of the First Avenue bike lane are quite rideable. I used about eight blocks of it this weekend. This Saturday, I was able to bike from my apartment in Prospect Heights to […]