Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Lower East Side

Local High School Students Create Bike Posters for the Lower East Side

By Stephen Miller | Aug 26, 2013 | 2 Comments

To finish out the third summer of the Local Spokes youth ambassadors program, a bike-based curriculum for high school students from Chinatown and the Lower East Side, eight teenagers designed and printed posters about bicycling now on display in the neighborhood. The new posters join street signs designed by last year’s participants encouraging local residents to […]

Patchwork Upgrades Move Ahead as East Side Waits for Complete Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Aug 8, 2013 | 3 Comments

The East River Greenway, stepchild of Manhattan’s bikeway network, currently consists of segments beneath, beside, and sometimes even above the FDR Drive. A report issued by New Yorkers for Parks yesterday acknowledged that East Siders awaiting a continuous path will have to wait decades before they can walk or bike on a full-length East River Greenway. In […]

How Many Parking Spots Will Developers Build at Transit-Rich EDC Site?

By Stephen Miller | May 6, 2013 | 9 Comments

Since being cleared for redevelopment in 1967, several city blocks at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge on the Lower East Side — known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA — have lain fallow. For decades, the largest undeveloped, city-owned land below 96th Street was used only for surface parking lots. After years of planning work, […]

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Community-Based Bike Advocacy in Chinatown and the Lower East Side

By Elizabeth Press | Jan 15, 2013 | No Comments

Local Spokes is a coalition of nine organizations that joined up to engage low-income residents, people of color, immigrants, and young people in the Lower East Side and Chinatown to envision the future of bicycling in their communities. To understand the transportation needs of the neighborhoods, Local Spokes conducted an extensive survey in 2010 and […]

Bike Lanes Mean Business

By Jono Ryan | Oct 12, 2012 | 4 Comments

The East Village and Lower East Side have seen new bike infrastructure flourish in the past few years, and now have some of the best city bicycling infrastructure in the country, including what will soon be the nation’s longest protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, several on-street bike corrals, and, coming next spring, […]

In Wake of Traffic Fatality Spike, Officials Tout Safer Delancey Street

By Stephen Miller | Sep 27, 2012 | 6 Comments

This morning, elected officials and community leaders unveiled a slate of pedestrian safety improvements to Delancey Street, long ranked as one of the city’s most dangerous places to walk. Nine people were killed and 742 injured between 2006 and 2010 on Delancey, from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Bowery. In the last six years, there […]

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