Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Lower East Side

Cab Driver Strikes and Kills Manhattan CB 3 Member on Essex Street

By Ben Fried | Apr 28, 2010 | 8 Comments

Harry Wieder. Photo: DNAInfo From news site DNAInfo: The victim, Harry Wieder, 57, was crossing Essex Street between E. Houston and Stanton streets around 9:45 p.m. when he was hit by a taxi heading north on the block, police said. Wieder, a longtime advocate for disability, transportation and LGBT issues, had been leaving a Community […]

LES Bike-Ped Improvements Sail Through Manhattan CB 3

By Noah Kazis | Mar 24, 2010 | 9 Comments

New bike lanes leading to and from the Williamsburg Bridge encountered almost no opposition from Manhattan Community Board 3. Two weeks after NYCDOT revealed a package of pedestrian and cyclist improvements for the Lower East Side, the full membership of Community Board 3 voted overwhelmingly to approve the plans. There was only one "no" vote […]

Upper East Side Workshop Kicks Off New Street Safety Campaign

By Noah Kazis | Mar 17, 2010 | 14 Comments

"You can’t control what you can’t measure," the saying goes. So to get a better grip on street safety on Manhattan’s East Side, Transportation Alternatives started by collecting better data about local traffic collisions and injuries. Last night, a group of Upper East Siders used that information to begin imagining what a safer neighborhood might […]

Safer Bowery, LES Bike Lanes Clear Manhattan CB3 Committee

By Ben Fried | Mar 11, 2010 | 25 Comments

New bike routes will provide safer connections on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge, in an attempt to divert cyclists from Delancey Street. Image: NYCDOT NYCDOT unveiled a slate of pedestrian and bicycle improvements to the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 3 last night. Presenters asked for votes on two street safety projects: […]

Car-Sharing Instead of More Parking? LES Co-op Says: “Fantastic”

By Noah Kazis | Feb 1, 2010 | 13 Comments

Seward Park Houses has welcomed a small car-sharing program instead of clamoring for additional parking. Image: The Lo-Down. About 1,700 Lower East Side families live in Seward Park Houses. Located between East Broadway, Essex, and Grand Streets, street parking is scarce, and though the complex offers 400 parking spaces, there are 500 names on the […]

WNYC: East Side Plans Feature Separate Lanes for Bikes, But Not Buses

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2010 | 9 Comments

WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein is reporting that plans for Bus Rapid Transit on First and Second Avenues include protected bike lanes but not physically separated bus lanes. Bernstein says the MTA would not allow the bus lanes to be separated from traffic: The city and MTA are poised to unveil a proposal for BRT on these […]

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