Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

This used to be a highway — for cars. Now it's a well-used bike path. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Cycle of Rage: New Streetfilms Doc Shows New York’s Bike Infrastructure Is Ultimately a Joke

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 20, 2019 | 19 Comments

Watch the latest Streetfilms documentary by Clarence Eckerson Jr. and you will realize that all we get are tiny improvements, at best, from Mayor de Blasio.

This doesn't happen very much, but now it won't happen between 1 and 5 a.m.

Op-Ed: The ‘Customer’ Is Always Right — Except When Being Called ‘Customer’

By Eric Schewe | Jun 18, 2019 | 11 Comments

Criticizing this language may seem nitpicky. But the words symbolize the political tensions at the MTA and in the city and state at large — what gets built, who pays for it and, at the end of the day, who is it all for anyway?

This sign now greets cyclists as they simply try to get from Downtown Brooklyn to DUMBO. Photo: Daniel Hopkins

UNBELIEVABLE! DOT Adds Parking to Car-Choked DUMBO

By Daniel Hopkins | Jun 14, 2019 | 32 Comments

Pedestrian-packed and car-clogged Washington Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood has been converted to a one-way between Front and York streets — a change spurred by a two-year effort by a neighborhood resident that will actually add more cars and more danger to the roadway.

Candidates for Queens District Attorney talking about street safety are (clockwise from top left) Rory Lancman, Jose Nieves, Melinda Katz and Tiffany Caban.

Ask the Candidates: Which District Attorney Will Make Queens Streets Safer?

By Dave Colon | Jun 13, 2019 | 8 Comments

Mostly, the seven Democrats vying for the Democratic nomination on June 25 have been focusing on what many believe are traditional law-and-order issues. But Streetsblog grilled them all on the most basic quality-of-life issues facing our community: street safety.

Will this really destroy the community? Photo: DOT

Reporter’s Notebook: Vision Zero on Trial in the Bronx

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 11, 2019 | 8 Comments

All rise as Streetsblog brings you inside the courtroom of Bronx Judge Lucindo Suarez as Vision Zero itself is on the docket.

A scene that can be seen every day: a New Yorker trying to avoid a huge pile of trash on the sidewalk. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Will NYC Finally Get Garbage Out of Pedestrians’ Way?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 4, 2019 | 64 Comments

The departments of Sanitation and Transportation say they'll do something about it. But will their formal "request for expressions of interest" from community, industry and advocacy groups actually solve the problem?

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