Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Canal Street

Canal Street's heavy midday traffic snakes through Chinatown. Photo: Kevin Duggan

UNDER FURTHER REVIEW: DOT To Study Canal Street For Bike and Pedestrian Improvements This Year

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments

The eight-month analysis will mark yet another study of the corridor — and the area's council member urged the Adams administration to actually get stuff done this time.

Canal Street at Sixth Avenue. Just a terrible mess. Photo: Google

Zone of Hope? DOT to Undertake Tiny Canal Street Improvements

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 15, 2022 | No Comments

It's one small step for steppers and, perhaps, a slightly less small leap for humankind.

Kids trying to cross Canal Street on a "Gridlock Alert" day on Wednesday. File photo: Julianne Cuba

Op-Ed: It's Time for Action on Canal St.

By Joseph Tedeschi | Mar 9, 2022 | No Comments

What is to be done about traffic and safety? And why has only negligible action been taken for decades?

An Open Letter To DOT Commissioner Rodriguez on Eve of #FixCanal Workshop

By John Massengale | Mar 7, 2022 | No Comments

An architect sets us up for tonight's Canal Street workshop.

A pedestrian squeezes between cars blocking the box on Canal Street.

DOT Finally Admits, ‘We Have a Problem on Canal Street’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 1, 2022 | No Comments

Is it finally time to #FixCanal?

A woman was killed on West Street on Wednesday night at almost the exact location of the pedestrian in this Google street view still.

Driver Kills Elderly Woman Near Gridlocked Canal Street

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 11, 2021 | No Comments

A Manhattan senior was run over and killed by the driver of a massive SUV on Wednesday while she was trying to cross highway-like West Street near Canal Street — a dangerous area that advocates have been trying to fix for years.

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