Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

The dangerous intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Church Avenue, where a driver hit and killed a 49-year-old woman in 2019. It is in the 40th Council District. Photo: Zainab Iqbal.

BLOOD IN THE STREETS: Three More Pedestrians are Dead [UPDATED]

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

Three more pedestrians have been killed by reckless drivers — bringing the total death count this bloody year to 106, or 14 percent more than this time last year.

The site of Abraham’s hit-and-run crash at Montauk and Sutter Avenue. Image: Google Streetview

Op-Ed: Communities of Color Need Protected Lanes, Too!

By Dave "Paco" Abraham | Jul 3, 2019 | 15 Comments

Bike-infrastructure inequities among neighborhoods continue — which is hard to square with Mayor de Blasio's stated goal of knitting together the "two cities" of New York. The Department of Transportation must fix the problem.

The intersection where a driver struck and killed 33-year-old Ingrid Pineda-Cuellar.

UPDATE: NYPD Arrests Driver Who Hit and Killed a Woman in the Crosswalk

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 1, 2019 | 10 Comments

Updated: Cops cuffed the driver who struck and killed a woman in a crosswalk of a Brooklyn intersection, the NYPD said on July 8. On June 30, police offered preliminary information about the death of 33-year-old Ingrid Pineda-Cuellar, who was struck by 78-year-old Jean Victorin as she crossed Utica Avenue at 6:53 a.m. on June 27. Police […]

An overload of pedestrians on Eighth Avenue. Photo: DOT

Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists

By Melodie Bryant | Jun 21, 2019 | 45 Comments

The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.

Scores of activists rallied at City Hall last month to argue that Mayor de Blasio has decelerated Vision Zero. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Safe Streets Advocates to Mayor: We’re Just Waiting For Your Signature

By Julianne Cuba | May 30, 2019 | 8 Comments

Mayor de Blasio is suddenly backing a street redesign bill he has long opposed. Why? He has no choice.

That was then. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Streetfilms Wayback Machine: When Union Square Sucked (Before DOT Fixed It!)

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 17, 2019 | 5 Comments

Let's go to the Streetfilms archive to see some really great footage of just how terrible Manhattan's Union Square was before it was transformed.

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