Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bridges

After 45 Years, the Car-Free High Bridge Reopens to the Public Tomorrow

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2015 | 4 Comments

The wait is just about over. Tomorrow the car-free High Bridge will be opened to the general public for the first time in 45 years. The High Bridge spans the Harlem River between Washington Heights and the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx. Built as part of the Croton Aqueduct in 1848, it is the city’s oldest bridge. […]

Get Ready For a Very Uncomfortable Year on the Brooklyn Bridge

By Stephen Miller | Apr 1, 2015 | 55 Comments

Just as the weather warms and tourists once again mob the Brooklyn Bridge to admire the skyline and snap some photos, DOT has announced that construction work will narrow the one place on the bridge path that’s even remotely close to comfortably wide. The maintenance work involves “steel improvements at tower locations as well as structural joint […]

MTA Tests Bike Racks on Bus Across Verrazano

By Stephen Miller | Mar 10, 2015 | 19 Comments

An anonymously-sourced New York Post story yesterday might leave readers with the impression that new bike racks on the front of Staten Island buses will lead to late trips and a liability nightmare for the MTA. The MTA, however, says it’s still studying the racks — a tried-and-true amenity in every other big American city […]

Cuomo to Spend Lion’s Share of NY Bank Settlement Windfall on Highways

By Stephen Miller | Jan 21, 2015 | 7 Comments

Here’s where Cuomo plans to spend settlement $$. Why not subways/buses? @grussian pic.twitter.com/n27LdWorWT — Josh Robin (@joshrobin) January 21, 2015 One of the looming questions as Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled his budget agenda over the past few days has been how he’ll divvy up the $5.4 billion windfall the state has reaped […]

Eyes on the Street: The Williamsburg Bridge Bike Path Freezes Over

By Ben Fried | Dec 11, 2014 | 46 Comments

The Williamsburg Bridge is a sheet of ice. #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/2hLMDYW4yM — Will Sherman (@WillSherman) December 11, 2014 Courtesy of Will Sherman, here’s what the Williamsburg Bridge bike path — one of the most important bike transportation connections in the city — looked like this morning after the season’s first snowfall. Icy and unbikeable. Sherman says […]

The Growing Political Muscle of the Campaign for a Verrazano Bike/Ped Path

By Ben Fried | Oct 22, 2014 | 8 Comments

This Saturday, close to 100 people gathered at the Alice Austen House on the North Shore of Staten Island to demand a walking and biking path across the Verrazano Bridge. And in a sign of the campaign’s growing political potency, several elected officials came out to announce their support for the idea, including Assembly Member […]

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