Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan to Hold 11:00 Madison Square Presser

By Brad Aaron | Sep 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

Mayor Bloomberg and DOT Commish Janette Sadik-Khan will be officially unveiling public space improvements to Madison Square at 11:00 this morning, on 23rd St. between Broadway and Fifth Ave. If any citizen journalists will be in the area, please send us a pic if you can.

In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming

By Brad Aaron | Aug 26, 2008 | 20 Comments

Projects like Broadway Boulevard are intended, in part, to reduce auto-pedestrian conflicts. Yesterday traffic agent Donnette Sanz was buried with her infant son. Two weeks ago, she was crossing a Bronx street on her lunch break when she was hit by a van and thrown under a school bus. Her unborn child was delivered prematurely […]

What Does Summer Streets Mean for Business?

By Brad Aaron | Aug 11, 2008 | 21 Comments

All this relaxed foot traffic surely brought a smile to the face of many a retailer and restaurateur While press coverage of Summer Streets has been generally positive, tales of the miffed muffler shop owner and complaining cabinet maker are bound to continue, as reporters hunt for naysayers to "balance" out their stories. But what […]

Streetfilms: Summer Streets 2008

By Brad Aaron | Aug 11, 2008 | 25 Comments

Conditions could hardly have been better for Saturday's Summer Streets debut, and New Yorkers responded, turning out in droves to enjoy a car-free route from Lower Manhattan to Central Park.

Eyes on the Street: 34th Street Runs Red With Paint

By Ben Fried | Aug 4, 2008 | 18 Comments

Streetsblog’s Brad Aaron — on vacation in exotic, uh, Midtown — sends this pic of a newly-striped 34th Street bus lane, looking east from Eighth Avenue. Red lanes on each side of 34th are part of the first phase of improvements to what is intended to become the city’s first "transitway." Another witness says the […]

Touring the East Side Access Tunnel, Surrounded By Schist

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2008 | 19 Comments

This morning I took a tour of the MTA’s newly completed East Side Access tunnel 140 feet below Midtown Manhattan. My laptop is about to run out of batteries and, of course, I left my power cord at home. (It’s a good thing I’m only in charge of running a blog and not, say, a […]

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