Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Status Report: DOT Considering Bike Facilities in East Side BRT Plan

By Ben Fried | Nov 13, 2009 | 4 Comments

A quick update on the status of bike infrastructure in the city’s plans for the East Side. We asked DOT whether the agency is considering protected bike facilities as part of the Bus Rapid Transit corridor planned for First and Second avenues. The press office says: We have been considering ways to incorporate bike facilities […]

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 […]

Safer, More Livable Streets for the East Side — The Campaign Heats Up

By Ben Fried | Nov 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Advocates and volunteers working for protected bike paths on the East Side, flush from last month’s highly encouraging Community Board 8 vote, delivered more than a thousand handwritten letters yesterday to City Hall, supporting protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues. Keep an eye on this story. It’s a big one. East Side residents […]

Second Life: NYC Parking Meters to Reincarnate as Bike Racks

By Ben Fried | Oct 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

Headless meter poles on Madison Avenue, awaiting rebirth. Photo: Wiley Norvell. New York’s trusty single-space parking meters are a dying breed. They’ve served commercial corridors admirably, but they’re rapidly giving way to muni-meters (which are much better suited for innovations in curbside pricing, like DOT’s PARKSmart program). The downside of the shrinking meter supply: New […]

Eyes on the Street: Crash Aftermath on First Avenue [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Oct 23, 2009 | 13 Comments

A reader sent in this picture of the scene at First Avenue and 4th Street in Manhattan this morning. I won’t speculate too much about what sheared the roof off this minivan or what happened to the people involved. Perhaps the car was pried open deliberately to rescue those inside. Details are scarce: An investigation […]

Last Night’s CB Action: A Big Vote of Confidence for Protected Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Oct 22, 2009 | 7 Comments

Manhattan Community Board 8 issued a strong call for safer streets on the Upper East Side last night, voting 38 to 1 for a resolution supporting protected bike lanes. The reso asks DOT to come back to the CB with a neighborhood bike plan that includes physically protected lanes, though it refrains from mentioning specific […]

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