Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

Bronx CB 4 Wants the Grand Concourse to Work for Walking, Biking, Transit

By Brad Aaron | Nov 23, 2016 | No Comments

Bronx Community Board 4 has endorsed a proposal to make the Grand Concourse a complete street with protected bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes, and pedestrian islands.

Eyes on the Street: Eastern Parkway Gets Removable Rubber Ped Islands

By David Meyer | Nov 2, 2016 | 10 Comments

DOT has installed “removable rubber pedestrian islands” at two intersections on Eastern Parkway, two months after Mayor de Blasio authorized the removal of concrete pedestrian islands to ostensibly make room for the West Indian Day Parade. The concrete islands were only in place for about eight months. They were installed last December at Kingston Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue in […]

Deadly Woodhaven Boulevard and NYC’s Broken Community Board Process

By David Meyer | Oct 25, 2016 | 8 Comments

Yesterday morning, a driver struck and killed 13-year-old Jazmine Marin as she walked across Cross Bay Boulevard at 149th Avenue on her way to school. The location is deadly — one other person has been struck and killed there since 2012, and Cross Bay is one of the most dangerous streets in the city. From 2009 to 2013, […]

No More Stalling: DOT Redesigns Gerritsen Ave After Teen Cyclist’s Death

By David Meyer | Oct 24, 2016 | 9 Comments

DOT will install a two-way protected bike lane and other traffic-calming measures on Gerritsen Avenue, the street next to Marine Park in southern Brooklyn where a drunk driver killed a teenage cyclist this summer [PDF]. On the night of July 19, Thomas Groarke, 24, overtook another driver on the left and sped into the wide painted median on […]

Rodriguez Wants DOT to Remedy NYC’s Most Cramped Sidewalks

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2016 | 14 Comments

City Council transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez wants DOT to address overcrowding on some of the city’s most cramped sidewalks. A bill introduced this week would require DOT to identify 10 locations with the heaviest pedestrian traffic volumes and “develop strategies for improving safety and traffic flow at such locations.” “In this city, most New Yorkers rely on public transportation […]

De Blasio: Eastern Parkway Pedestrian Islands Posed Parade Safety Hazard

By David Meyer | Sep 1, 2016 | 24 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference yesterday that pedestrian islands on Eastern Parkway were removed because unnamed elected officials wanted to make room for West Indian Day Parade floats, which would have otherwise posed a risk to the public. The mayor indicated the median islands would not have been installed had the city […]

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