Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highbridge

Eyes on the Street: A Better Bikeway Linking the High Bridge to Highbridge

By Ben Fried | Jun 22, 2015 | 11 Comments

Ten days ago, DOT broke ground on a nice set of new bike lanes linking Upper Manhattan to the reopened High Bridge. Meanwhile, bike access improvements on the Bronx side are already pretty far along. This is the new contraflow bike lane on 170th Street, leading east from the High Bridge. It’s part of a package […]

The Case for 24/7 Access to the High Bridge

By Ben Fried | Jun 22, 2015 | 18 Comments

Video of opening day on the High Bridge: Clarence Eckerson. New York City’s bike network would be a shell of its current self without the segments that run through parks. The most heavily traveled bike route in the city — the Hudson River Greenway — is in a park. Paths in Central Park, Prospect Park, and other public […]

DOT and Ydanis Rodriguez Break Ground on Uptown Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Jun 12, 2015 | 10 Comments

Don’t underestimate the importance of this development: Today, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez announced the groundbreaking for new bike routes linking the Hudson River Greenway to the restored High Bridge, which connects Upper Manhattan to the Bronx. The shovels-in-the-ground moment and its sibling, the ribbon-cutting-with-oversized-scissors, are irresistible to elected officials everywhere. Usually, this feeds into the political incentive […]

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. […]

One City, By Bike: Unlocking Uptown Cycling With the Harlem River Bridges

By Jon Orcutt | Sep 4, 2014 | 14 Comments

This is part four of a five-part series by former NYC DOT policy director Jon Orcutt about the de Blasio administration’s opportunities to expand and improve cycling in New York. Read part one, part two, and part three. Forging good cycling routes across the Harlem River represents a strong organizing principle for a multi-year program to deliver better cycling […]

Parks Department: City Hopes to Complete High Bridge Rehab This Year

By Brad Aaron | Mar 26, 2014 | 5 Comments

Last year Mayor Bloomberg announced that the long-awaited restoration of the car-free High Bridge would be completed “by 2014.” Work began soon after, and the Parks Department tells Streetsblog the rehab is slated to wrap before the year is over. “While we estimate that the construction will be completed in December of this year, we […]

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