Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parks

NYPD Tow Pound is Still a Major Source of Greenway Danger

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 17, 2008 | 15 Comments

As Transportation Alternatives recently noted in an essay for Streetsblog, more than a year after the death of Eric Ng, the alphabet soup of government agencies responsible for the Hudson River Greenway, have done almost nothing to fix glaring safety problems along New York City’s most important bike route. Photographer and bike commuter Lars Klove […]

What if DOT Simply Forgot to Open the Parks to Traffic?

By Ken Coughlin | Jan 11, 2008 | 19 Comments

This holiday season, users of Central and Prospect Parks got an unexpected and welcome gift after years of finding coal (and exhaust) in their stockings. Interestingly, the sources of that exhaust didn’t seem to complain (or perhaps even notice) that things had changed. For years, cars have been barred from most of the Parks’ Loop […]

What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Grand Army Plaza Coalition, which recently won a grant from the Design Trust for Public Spaces, has launched an Ideas Competition for its Reinventing Grand Army Plaza project. If you want to participate, answer the following questions in full sentences, and email your responses by the end of the week to survey@reinventingGAP.org. 1. What […]

A Year After Eric Ng’s Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 4, 2008 | 42 Comments

This piece was written by Transportation Alternatives: On December 1, 2006, Eric Ng was riding his bike up the Hudson River Greenway. He was on his way to meet friends. He never made it, because a drunk driver named Eugenio Cidron took his life. After leaving a party at Chelsea Piers, Cidron got behind the […]

Greenway Killer is Sentenced 3½ to 10½ Years

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 4, 2008 | 10 Comments

Portraits of cyclists killed on the streets of New York, Eric Ng, Keith Powell, Andre Anderson, and Carl Nacht by artist Christopher Cardinale. Yesterday was the sentencing for Eugenio Cidron, the driver who killed bicyclist Eric Ng on the Hudson River Greenway thirteen months ago and pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in November. Leaving the […]

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Comes to Life

By Brad Aaron | Dec 21, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, a citizen-driven project that began with a handful of insane visionaries picking up trash and planting flowers beside a BQE off-ramp, is taking shape on Columbia Street. Notice the space for greenery between the sidewalk and the curb. Plans call for the park to connect Greenpoint to Red Hook. Photos: Clarence […]

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