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Eyes on the Street: 34th Precinct Leads by Example

By Brad Aaron | | 13 Comments
As seen outside Wednesday’s 34th Precinct Community Council meeting. The driver of this livery cab stopped on Broadway, backed 90 degrees into the crosswalk, drove forward (about halfway across the crosswalk) to straighten out, then backed up again, taking up a good share of the disabled access curb ramp in the process. Then he and […]

Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business

By Aaron Naparstek | | 7 Comments
The interim redesign of Ninth Avenue and 14th Street is done. Tables, chairs, planters and some of those giant granite blocks from DOT’s Bridges Division have been set out as multipurpose bollard-bench-tables atop a gravelly, earth-tone pavement surface.  What was very recently one of the longest and most hectic pedestrian crossings in Manhattan, and no […]

34th Precinct Promises Action on Broadway and Dongan

By Brad Aaron | | No Comments
This spiffy new illuminated bus stop shelter replaces another destroyed by a  motorist at Broadway and Dongan Place, near the border of Inwood and Washington Heights. The 34th Precinct says it will enact new enforcement measures to cut down on reckless driving along a crash-prone stretch of Broadway in Northern Manhattan. As promised, residents of […]

Fifth Avenue Will Get a New Buffered Bike Lane

By Jason Varone | | 16 Comments
The Department of Transportation announced the installation of a buffered bike lane on Fifth Avenue in this month’s NYCycles, a monthly e-newsletter produced by DOT on cycling issues. In this photo taken yesterday, it is not clear where DOT plans to fit the buffered zone. The apparently temporary lines that were painted on a newly […]

DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
Howard/Stein-Hudson consultant Chris Ryan directs UWS traffic Over 200 Upper West Siders turned out last night to tell the DOT what they think of street conditions in their neighborhood. Held at John Jay College Auditorium on 10th Avenue and 58th Street, the premiere "listening session" of the West Side Transportation Study attracted "one of the […]

More Park(ing) Day Photos

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
Park(Day) co-organizer Jen Petersen and Robert Cipriano lounge at No Impact Man‘s spot in front of Whole Foods at 7th Ave. and W. 24th St. Project for Public Spaces and Open Planning Project set up at Third Ave. and St. Marks. NYU students planted a garden in this parking space at E. 9th and Stuyvesant. […]
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