Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Bicycles Are the New NYC “It Girl” Fashion Accessory

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 6, 2007 | 38 Comments

Actress Chloe Sevigny and her folding bike. This week’s New York Observer story on "the beautiful bicycle girls of New York" may very well be the most e-mailed news item ever forwarded to the Streetsblog inbox. Calm down, people! Gillian Reagan observes what appears to be a new trend in New York City: Exceptionally good […]

Safety City: Where Cars Rule!

By Brad Aaron | Sep 4, 2007 | 15 Comments

As part of our back to school coverage, and in light of news from the past week, we thought it would be a good time to report on programs aimed at keeping kids safe on city streets. In addition to its ever-so-slowly evolving Safe Routes to School effort (three years in, improvements are soon expected […]

Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach

By Sarah Goodyear | Aug 27, 2007 | 18 Comments

DOT plans to build a physically-separated two-way bike lane on this one block stretch of Canal Street at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. The project also includes pedestrian safety fixes. The Manhattan approach to the Manhattan Bridge, where Chinatown and the Lower East Side come together in a jumble, has long presented one of […]

First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 24, 2007 | 18 Comments

A camera phone-toting tipster reports seeing workers installing what appears to be New York City’s first-ever real-time bus status display board this morning inside a bus shelter at First Avenue and E. 14th Street along the M15 route. We’ll put in some calls to the MTA and DOT to get the details. Unfortunately, for now […]

Bikes Are Traffic, Too

By Brad Aaron | Aug 22, 2007 | 17 Comments

Anyone else seen these signs around town? Cyclists heading up the Clinton Street bike lane in Brooklyn Heights are getting a nod from the construction crew whose elevator is jutting into their right-of-way. The big orange markers, labeled "Department of Transportation," start a full block ahead of the obstruction at the corner of Montague Street. […]

Officer Convicted in Beating Was Handing Off Parking Placard

By Brad Aaron | Aug 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

From the New York Times, via an eagle-eyed Streetsblog tipster: A police captain who admitted having a forbidden affair with an officer under his command was convicted yesterday of brutally beating her on a Greenwich Village street. The jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan found the captain, Alberto Sanchez, guilty of third-degree assault, a […]

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