Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Eyes on the Street: Horse Lane?

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

West 90th Street Bike Lane between Columbus and Central Park West This is one use of the new bike lane on W. 90th Street that I did not expect to see. I’ll leave it to someone else to submit this to MyBikeLane.com. Photo by Glenn McAnanama

CB2 Committee Approves “Additional” Prince/Bleecker Routes

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

The CB2 Traffic & Transportation Committee met at the LGBT Center on Tuesday. A crowded and often contentious Tuesday night meeting yielded a compromise on proposed bike lanes through Lower Manhattan, one some fear could come at a cost. The Traffic & Transportation Committee of Community Board 2 voted 8-1 to recommend the DOT add […]

Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better

By John Kaehny | Apr 9, 2007 | 8 Comments

Saturday afternoon traffic congestion on a London street near Covent Garden with dimensions and land use almost identical to Prince Street in Manhattan. In the days before Wednesday’s hearing on pedestrian safety, the City Council should consider how badly New York City pedestrians fare compare to those in London. While pedestrian safety has been improving […]

Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 6, 2007 | 3 Comments

DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia on March 15: "I know that two-way streets are less safe." A couple of weeks ago, following the epic, 650-person "One Way? No Way!" public meeting in Park Slope, Brooklyn Papers columnist Gersh Kuntzman accused his fellow Park Slopers of being "closed-minded, anti-intellectual whiners" for rejecting DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael […]

StreetFilm: Room to Breathe

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 2, 2007 | 6 Comments

Room to BreatheA StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr.Running Time: 3 minutes 41 seconds Inspired by a poster produced by Portland’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) in the mid-1990s, this weekend Transportation Alternatives gathered a gaggle of cyclists on 42nd Street in Manhattan to stage New York’s own dramatic illustration of how much street space would be […]

A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | No Comments

All across the city neighborhood groups are coming together to re-envision and plan their own communities. In the last few months we’ve seen valuable community-planning processes taking place in Hell’s Kitchen, the Meatpacking District and, to a certain extent, along Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. People aren’t waiting around for real estate developers or city […]

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