Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about East Village

Anatomy of a (Legal) Hit-and-Run

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Scene of an April 3 collision between a driver and delivery man. That’s food on the car’s hood. Early this month Streetsblog regular ddartley tagged a series of shots for the Flickr feed showing the aftermath of a driver-cyclist collision on the edge of Stuyvesant Town. According to Dartley, the cyclist was a restaurant delivery […]

Bigger Sidewalks But No Protected Bike Lane for Houston Street

By Ben Fried | Apr 3, 2009 | 14 Comments

A photosim of the East Houston Street plan; existing condition shown inset. Image: DCP. The reconstruction of East Houston Street will include wider medians, bigger sidewalks, fewer traffic lanes, and a new bike lane. But instead of installing a physically protected path for cyclists, the city plans to paint a buffered, Class 2 lane. The […]

Pedestrian Fatalities Spark Few Media Questions, Zero Cries for “Justice”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2008 | 16 Comments

Early Saturday morning, two 26-year-old women were killed while trying to cross 14th Street at First Avenue in the East Village. According to the Daily News and other outlets, Stephanie Dees (right) and Ann Sullivan were both hit by a taxi traveling west on 14th, and Dees was hit by a second cab, apparently heading […]

Hit by a Car While Biking? Don’t Waste the NYPD’s Time

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 12, 2008 | 37 Comments

A Streetsblog reader named Jessica sends along yet another story of the NYPD’s failure to treat bike commuters as full-fledged citizens of the City of New York: This evening around 8pm I was biking home down 2nd Avenue in the bike lane. I had a front light, back light, a bell, and was wearing a […]

How About Two Bike Lanes Per Street?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 9, 2008 | 58 Comments

Now for something completely different: Clarence Eckerson snapped these photos of a double bike lane on both sides of Second Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets. The new street design also includes a rather massive bike box. Has New York City ever had a street with bike lanes running along both sides? This seems to […]

Invisible Man

By Alex Marshall | Nov 5, 2007 | 17 Comments

The brain experts tell us vision is an act of discrimination. In other words, we don’t see everything; see what we look for, what we expect to see. Which probably explains how the guy on Avenue B over near 10th Street opened his door directly in front of me, just after sticking his head out […]

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