Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

Who Are NYC’s Worst Sidewalk Hogs? Keep Those Tweets Coming

By Brad Aaron | Jul 7, 2014 | 8 Comments

There’s still time to submit your photos of sidewalk-hogging businesses. Inspired by Clarence Eckerson’s pics of a car dealership that swallowed a new sidewalk extension in Sunnyside, we’re looking for other examples across the city. Readers who tweet the most shameless #sidewalkhogs shots will be rewarded with Streetfilms DVDs. Be sure to include location info […]

Shared Space: The Street Design NYC’s Financial District Was Made For

By Stephen Miller | Jul 3, 2014 | 39 Comments

For people in cars, the Financial District is a slow-speed maze. For everyone else, it is one of the city’s most transit-rich destinations. Despite this, most of the street space in the area is devoted to cars. The Financial District is an ideal candidate for pedestrianization, but while it has seen redesigns on a handful of streets, it […]

Eyes on the Street: Tweet Us Your Pics of Sidewalk-Hogging Businesses

By Brad Aaron | Jul 3, 2014 | 35 Comments

Clarence shot the above photo of a common sight in NYC: car-oriented businesses that illegally commandeer sidewalks, forcing pedestrians to walk around parked cars or pushing people into the street. He writes: I just snapped these photos of a brand new curb extension in Sunnyside, on 37th Street and Queens Boulevard, and a car dealership […]

Off-Duty NYPD Officer Seriously Injures Child in Jackson Heights Crosswalk

By Stephen Miller | Jun 27, 2014 | 24 Comments

Just after 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 5-year-old Chunli Mendoza was walking to P.S. 228 with her mother. They were midway across Northern Boulevard at 92nd Street, just a block away from the school, when they were struck by an off-duty NYPD officer. Chunli was seriously injured and remains at Elmhurst Hospital after undergoing surgery on her […]

Eyes on the Street: More Pedestrian Space at Deadly UES Intersection

By Stephen Miller | Jun 24, 2014 | 7 Comments

Last September, 16-year-old Renee Thompson was struck and killed by a turning truck driver at the intersection of Third Avenue and 60th Street. Now, the crowded intersection has painted curb extensions on two of the intersection’s four corners that shorten crossing distances and tighten turns. A DOT proposal in January to Community Board 8 had them on […]

Will Curb Extensions and Signs Do the Job at Broadway and Dyckman?

By Brad Aaron | Jun 24, 2014 | 2 Comments

It won’t be long before pedestrians will have shorter crossing distances at Broadway, Dyckman Street, and Riverside Drive in Inwood. Last we checked, work was just getting underway on curb extensions, following the installation of signs prohibiting left turns for motorists approaching the intersection from all directions. As of this afternoon, the southeast curb extension […]

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