Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Elderly & Disabled

Brooklyn CB 15 Asks Whether Safer Streets Are Worth 100,000 Sneezes

By Ben Fried | May 18, 2010 | 13 Comments

If you ever need a laugh but don’t feel like shelling out for the two-drink minimum, you could do worse than head over to a Brooklyn CB 15 meeting. At an info session last night about plans for Brooklyn’s inaugural rapid bus line, the first question out of the audience was, "How many parking spots […]

Council Members Vow to Back AARP Pedestrian Safety Goals

By Ben Fried | Apr 19, 2010 | 7 Comments

From left to right: Council Members Jessica Lappin, Christine Quinn, and James Vacca, AARP State Director Lois Aronstein, and NYC Aging Commissioner Lilliam Barrios-Paoli. Photo: Ben Fried Electeds and other officials gathered with representatives from AARP today to pledge support for street improvements and to call on Albany to pass complete streets legislation. Kicking off […]

Concern for Seniors Runs High at Low Turnout CB 11 Meeting

By Noah Kazis | Feb 3, 2010 | 1 Comment

Select Bus Service’s new low-floor buses will make it easier for seniors to get on and off the bus. Image: Second Avenue Sagas. Last night the MTA and DOT continued their tour of East Side community boards, presenting plans for better bus service and safer streets to the Manhattan CB 11 transportation committee. Attendance was low, […]

Queens CB 6 Eager for Safety Fixes (Just Don’t Touch Their Parking)

By Noah Kazis | Jan 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Rego Park senior focus area, which includes several blocks of Queens Boulevard, is slated for pedestrian improvements. Click here to enlarge. Image: NYCDOT. As we’ve recently seen in Astoria, DOT doesn’t always bring innovative traffic calming tools to streets that need them. What happens when they do? At a community board meeting in Rego […]

Seniors Survey Manhattan’s Deadliest Street

By Noah Kazis | Jan 7, 2010 | 5 Comments

Hours after the Tri-State Transportation Campaign released a report yesterday identifying New York’s deadliest roads, 13 AARP volunteers surveyed part of Third Avenue in an effort to make walking in New York safer. AARP volunteer Marlene Ramsey tracks safety conditions on Third Avenue. Photo: Noah Kazis. The surveyors braved the January cold to spend their […]

Seniors on Scooters Take the Lane

By Brad Aaron | Nov 24, 2008 | 5 Comments

Greenpoint maven Miss Heather, who blogs at New York Shitty, has noticed an increase in the number of seniors wheeling their electric scooters through neighborhood bike lanes. The reason, she suspects, is that "some of our sidewalks do not necessarily make the best terrain for such vehicles (or pedestrians, for that matter)." After I shot […]

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