Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Eyes on the Street: Taking the Lane

By Brad Aaron | Mar 14, 2008 | 11 Comments

From a Streetsblog tipster comes this shot of five of the city’s 142,000 placard-bearing vehicles parked in the bike lane on Lafayette Street between Franklin and White. What was especially damning is that in the real parking spaces, to the left of these double-parkers, there were about three vacant legitimate spots.

Hudson River Greenway Bike Path Sabotaged

By Brad Aaron | Mar 11, 2008 | 9 Comments

Streetsblog received this tip last night: I was riding North on the Greenway tonight at about 9:15, and after clearing 60th street and entering the stretch under the elevated Miller Highway a southbound cyclists yelled at me, "Watch out! There’s a pile of rocks across the bike path ahead." I slowed down and carefully rode […]

Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents

By Ben Fried | Mar 7, 2008 | 25 Comments

A rendering in section of NYU’s proposal for a pedestrian-only Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Broadway. Earlier this week, Community Board 2 in Greenwich Village held a public meeting to get feedback on NYU’s proposal to pedestrianize Washington Place, part of a larger plan to improve public space in the school’s core campus. […]

Is an NYPD Bike Crackdown Underway?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 6, 2008 | 10 Comments

Even before the NYPD identified a hooded cyclist as the this morning’s likely Times Square bomber, two reports of bike commuters being ticketed and harassed by the police have already hit the Streetsblog inbox. Perhaps it’s just that the weather’s getting nicer and more people happen to be out on bikes but at least one […]

Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks.

By Brad Aaron | Mar 3, 2008 | 17 Comments

Just two of the 17 members of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, Assemblymen Richard Brodsky and Herman “Denny” Farrell, voted against the revised congestion pricing plan that now awaits approval by the City Council and state legislators, all of which must happen by March 31 if the city is to receive $354 million in federal […]

Streetfilms: Excuses

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2008 | 6 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was walking around Manhattan one day last summer feeling what he describes as "a little sympathy for what it must be like to be a ticket writer in this town." He turned on his ever-present video camera and began shooting illegally parked cars and the variety of placards, badges and hand-scrawled notes […]

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