Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenwich Village

Eyes on the Street: An Early Look at the Lafayette Protected Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Apr 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

Crews have been making good progress on the Lafayette Street redesign [PDF], the first protected bike lane project installed by the de Blasio administration. As of yesterday, the striping work had progressed from Spring Street up past 4th Street, where Philip Winn of Project for Public Spaces snapped these photos. The Lafayette Street project will […]

DOT Passes on Protected Bike Lanes for Tribeca, Gets CB Committee Support

By Stephen Miller | Jul 12, 2013 | 19 Comments

With the exception of the Hudson River Greenway, routes between Tribeca and Greenwich Village can hardly be described as bike-friendly. Cyclists must compete with gridlock near Canal Street and the Holland Tunnel, while wide north-south arteries like Varick Street and Sixth Avenue are daunting roads. DOT is proposing a mix of upgrades between Warren Street […]

Eyes on the Street: Collision Leaves NYU Bus on Greenwich Village Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | Apr 4, 2013 | 9 Comments

A two-vehicle collision left an NYU bus on a Greenwich Village sidewalk this morning, in an NYPD precinct where speed enforcement, for all intents and purposes, is non-existent. Tipster Philip Winn snapped these photos at Lafayette Street and E. 4th Street at around 9:30 a.m., after the second vehicle, a passenger car, had been towed […]

Tonight: CB 2 Seeks Changes to Sixth and Houston Following Deadly Crash

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 is looking for input on how to improve safety at Sixth Avenue and Houston Street, the intersection where Jessica Dworkin was killed by a truck driver two weeks ago. “Everything’s open,” says committee chair Shirley Secunda, “from street geometry to police enforcement and investigation to current regulations […]

Quinn Deal Reduces Parking — and Housing — at St. Vincent’s Site

By Noah Kazis | Mar 16, 2012 | 4 Comments

Responding to requests from the community board and advocacy groups, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn did what neither the City Planning Commission nor Borough President Scott Stringer would: reduce the excessive number of parking spaces planned for the Rudin family’s redevelopment of the St. Vincent’s Hospital site. Originally, Rudin proposed building 152 spaces for 450 luxury […]

Spot the Celebrity Bike-Share Planner

By Ben Fried | Feb 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

It was another evening of hands-on bike-share station planning at Manhattan Community Board 2 last night, as New Yorkers hunched over maps of SoHo and Greenwich Village, marking the best places to site bike-share kiosks. If you live or work in the bike-share service area, you really ought to mark your calendar for the station […]

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