Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Neckdowns

Despite a city commitment last year, McGuinness Boulevard remains a speedway. Photo: Google

DOT Will Give Deadly McGuinness Boulevard Some Safety Fixes Before Full Redesign

By Dave Colon | Aug 31, 2022 | No Comments

The DOT is daylighting "select intersections" on McGuinness between Freeman Street and Meeker Avenue, blessing the intersections with either neckdowns or bike corrals.

This man needs a neckdown — but the city's own rules require the city to find a community partner before making roadways safe for pedestrians (though unsafe roadways need no community partner). Photo: Lisa Orman

Another Community Board Calls for City to Stop Discriminating Against Pedestrians

By Eve Kessler | Oct 13, 2020 | No Comments

Upper West Side joins the push for DOT to just install "neckdowns" wherever the safety improvement is needed.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS: What Car Culture Has Cost Us

By Eve Kessler | Aug 14, 2020 | No Comments

Some then-and-now photos of New York City show how residents lost precious space to the automobile. What we could do to fix it.

Shorter crossing distances and slower driver turns at Vernon and Marcy avenues in Bed Stuy? Sneckdowns to the rescue! Photo: @pekochel

Now Playing: Your Stella Sneckdowns

By Brad Aaron | Mar 15, 2017 | 2 Comments

Stella didn’t dump as much snow on NYC as predicted, but there was enough to make for some fine sneckdowns.

West Side Study Offers Lots of Little Improvements, No Transformations

By Noah Kazis | Apr 27, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Department of Transportation has completed a multi-year transportation study of the Upper West Side, and Wednesday night the agency walked local residents through the many proposed changes [PDF]. The suggestions for the area between 55th and 86th Streets, west of Central Park, include a number of valuable intersection-level improvements to pedestrian safety, but left […]

NYPD Sidewalk Hogs Make Way for Bike Parking and Benches (Updated)

By Ben Fried | Nov 30, 2009 | 13 Comments

Elizabeth Press sends these shots of the northeast corner of Hoyt and Schermerhorn in downtown Brooklyn. In what may be a first for New York City, this nifty little DOT reclamation includes bike racks installed on the roadbed, not the sidewalk. (Update: DOT confirms that yes, this is something new for the city.) More on […]

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