Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of Parks & Recreation

Parks Department: City Hopes to Complete High Bridge Rehab This Year

By Brad Aaron | Mar 26, 2014 | 5 Comments

Last year Mayor Bloomberg announced that the long-awaited restoration of the car-free High Bridge would be completed “by 2014.” Work began soon after, and the Parks Department tells Streetsblog the rehab is slated to wrap before the year is over. “While we estimate that the construction will be completed in December of this year, we […]

Hudson River Greenway Detour, Set to End This Week, Extended Until March

By Stephen Miller | Dec 5, 2013 | 9 Comments

Since May, Hudson River Greenway users have been detoured from the waterside route between 133rd and 135th Streets to 12th Avenue, which is often full of trucks unloading at the Fairway supermarket. The closure, which signs on the greenway said would end at the end of last month, has been extended through the end of February […]

Feds Reject All Three NYC Applications for Latest Round of TIGER Grants

By Stephen Miller | Sep 5, 2013 | 6 Comments

This morning, U.S. DOT announced the winners in the latest round of its highly-competitive TIGER grant program. While upstate New York won grants for two projects — a highway teardown in Rochester and a complete streets project in Olean — New York City missed out, with applications for ferry improvements, a greenway connection in the Bronx, and […]

City Lays an Old Board Over Upper Manhattan Greenway Pit

By Brad Aaron | Aug 7, 2013 | 2 Comments

The Parks Department doesn’t know when a hole that opened up two months ago on the Hudson River Greenway will be repaired. A tipster sent us photos of the pit, located just north of 181st Street in Washington Heights, in June. These pictures were taken by the same reader about a week and a half […]

Eyes on the Street: Hole in the Hudson River Greenway in Washington Heights

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2013 | 25 Comments

A tipster sent us photos of what looks like a sinkhole in the Hudson River Greenway just north of 181st Street, in Washington Heights. These shots were taken Sunday morning. We asked the Parks Department when the hole might be repaired, and whether repair work would necessitate a detour. “We are aware of the situation […]

Parks Department Detours Hudson River Greenway in Harlem Until December

By Stephen Miller | May 14, 2013 | 27 Comments

The Hudson River Greenway between 133rd Street and 135th Street in West Harlem is closed until December, with users instructed to use 12th Avenue as a detour during the greenway’s busiest warm-weather months. Detour signage has been placed on the greenway as users approach the closed section, though our tipsters said there was no warning […]

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