Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Inwood

DOT Announces Spring Forum on Dyckman Greenway Connector

By Brad Aaron | Jan 5, 2010 | 2 Comments

Proposed Dyckman Street redesign presented by residents to the CB12 transpo committee in February ’08 Is the city finally taking action on a citizen proposal to connect Manhattan’s east- and west-side Greenways with a safer Dyckman Street? In December, Upper Manhattan advocates were disappointed to learn that DOT had no plans to study a cycle […]

Dyckman Cycle Track Proposal Still in Limbo After Two Years

By Brad Aaron | Dec 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

After almost two years of waiting for DOT analysis of a proposed cycle track for Dyckman Street in Upper Manhattan, advocates this week were promised … more waiting. Dyckman at Nagle Ave. Photo: Dry Fly Guy/Flickr At Monday’s meeting of the Community Board 12 Traffic and Transportation Committee, bike path supporters expected a short update […]

DOT Says Inwood Bike Shelter Didn’t Get Enough Use

By Brad Aaron | Nov 13, 2009 | 8 Comments

Impromptu bike parking on Dyckman Street after the de-installation of a bike shelter, which for a year stood on the fresh patch of concrete in the background. Photo: Brad Aaron A brief follow-up to our earlier story on Inwood’s disappearing Dyckman Street bike shelter. According to DOT, while it was located near a bike shop […]

Eyes on the Street: The Case of the Vanishing Bike Shelter

By Brad Aaron | Nov 10, 2009 | 14 Comments

Now you see bike infrastructure, now you don’t. Photos: Brad Aaron Last October, DOT installed Inwood’s first bike shelter on Dyckman/200th Street at Broadway. A little over a week ago, it disappeared without a trace. According to a blurb in the Manhattan Times, a spokesperson with DOT said the shelter was removed due to lack […]

Tonight: Two Chances to Turn Out for Safer Manhattan Streets

By Brad Aaron | Oct 21, 2009 | No Comments

There are two opportunities tonight to get behind livable streets efforts in Manhattan. Among the items on Community Board 8’s October agenda is a resolution in support of protected bike lanes on the Upper East Side. As we heard from Transportation Alternatives yesterday, neighborhood involvement has propelled this once-unlikely measure to this point, and friendly […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Crash in Inwood

By Brad Aaron | Sep 10, 2009 | 17 Comments

This was the scene at Seaman Avenue and 207th Street in Inwood at around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday. It appeared that the cyclist — a white male in his 40s or 50s — was doored by the driver of the Toyota 4Runner. The cyclist was elevating his hand, which was bleeding pretty heavily, before medics arrived. […]

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