Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Will Silver Defer to City Council on Congestion Pricing?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 17, 2007 | 29 Comments

While we weren’t looking, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver apparently had a change of heart on congestion pricing, and is reportedly now willing to go along with some version of the plan, as long as it is supported by City Council Democrats. This little bombshell comes courtesy of the Sun: The good news for Mayor Bloomberg […]

Daily News to Deceased Cyclists: “Your Fault.”

By Brad Aaron | Dec 14, 2007 | 8 Comments

Cyclists protest on Sixth Avenue following the death of David Smith Last week, we criticized accounts of the death of 63-year-old cyclist David Smith, who was memorialized Wednesday with a Ghost Bike and a die-in on Sixth Avenue. Though Smith was riding in the bike lane and was knocked into traffic by an illegally parked […]

Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 12, 2007 | 28 Comments

Blinding headlights make cycling difficult on a mile-long uptown stretch of the Hudson River Greenway. Lars Klove is a professional photographer who lives way uptown and uses the Hudson River Greenway to bike to and from his apartment on 183rd Street just about every day. Now that it is getting dark earlier in the evening, […]

Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 19 Comments

It looks like the street redesign around the Manhattan entrance of the Manhattan Bridge is nearing completion. Considering that Transportation Alternatives has been pushing for these fixes for years, that was pretty fast. DOT presented its plan to the local Community Board, to unanimous approval, in July; sketched out the lines on the street in […]

More Boring Photos

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 10, 2007 | 6 Comments

The entrance to the East Side Access work site in Sunnyside, Queens Last week, MTA PR man Jeremy Soffin sent along an interesting news blip about the gigantic tunnel boring machine chewing up the schist beneath 60th Street in Manhattan for the MTA’s East Side Access project. It turns out that blogger Michael Frumin knows […]

Shoup on Lehrer

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

Parking policy maven Donald Shoup will be on the Brian Lehrer show this morning, WNYC, 93.9 FM. He’ll be delving into the question: Is on-street parking too cheap in Manhattan? He’ll also be speaking tonight at 6pm: Fordham University – Pope Auditorium 113 W. 60th St. (at Columbus Av.) Manhattan By the way, check out […]

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