A New Era: The Sanitation Department Has Plowed the PPW Bike Lane

By Ben Fried
Jan 3, 2014

We have some late-breaking news courtesy of the New York Cycle Club’s Twitter feed. The Prospect Park West bike lane has been plowed.

Three years ago, this bike lane was impassable for days, maybe even weeks, after monster snowfall at the end of 2010. Now it’s 2014 and the lane was cleared the same day the storm stopped. Also, Marty Markowitz is no longer Brooklyn borough president. Coincidence?

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Somewhere under all that snow and ice is a bike lane.

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By David Meyer | Mar 17, 2017

It's been three days since Stella dropped its wintry precipitation on the city, but the protected bike lane on Grand Street in Manhattan remains unusable beneath three-foot mounds of snow.

Send Us Your Pics of Snowy Neckdowns and (Un)Plowed Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Jan 3, 2014

How is the first snowstorm of the de Blasio era treating you? Clarence has been out on the streets, perhaps working on a sequel to his “Snowy Neckdowns” blockbuster from 2011 (which was itself a sequel to this 2007 video). After the streets have been plowed and drivers carve out their routes, all that snow […]

Council Member Ben Kallos (inset) and his dream machine.

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By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 2, 2020

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Caption Contest: Chuck Schumer Rides the Prospect Park West Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Mar 18, 2012

Looks like protected bike infrastructure is growing on Chuck Schumer. High-powered backchannel NIMBY assault notwithstanding, New York’s senior senator apparently does enjoy riding the bike lane in his front yard, as you can see in this Sunday morning photo courtesy of fellow PPW resident Paul Steely White. So, when will the rest of Streetsblog’s 2011 April Fools […]

Caption Contest: Not Commenting About the [Expletive] Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Mar 28, 2011

This was the scene in Jackson Heights yesterday, where Mayor Bloomberg, Anthony Weiner, and the top dog on Prospect Park West, Senator Chuck Schumer, joined a bevy of other pols to contest the surprisingly low Census counts in Brooklyn and Queens. (That’s Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez between Bloomberg and Schumer.) During the presser, the Senator was […]

Eyes on the Street: Un-Plowed Bikeway on Parks Department Turf

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2015

Most of NYC’s bridge paths and protected bikeways seem to have been cleared well in the aftermath of this week’s snowstorm, judging by the lack of snowed-in bike lane photos in the Streetsblog inbox. It’s a different story on Parks Department turf. This stretch, flagged by commenter BBnet3000 yesterday morning, is the center median bikeway on […]