Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Midtown

Wednesday: CB 4 to Vote on West Side Protected Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | Oct 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

Community Board 4 will vote Wednesday on the DOT plan to extend protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues north from 34th to 59th Streets. As Noah reported in September, the lanes will offer a much safer route for commuters, delineating protected space on wide avenues sorely in need of taming, particularly near Penn […]

CB 4 Committee Says Yes to West Side Protected Bike Lanes Up to 59th Street

By Noah Kazis | Sep 22, 2011 | 16 Comments

DOT’s plan to extend the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues from the low 30s north to 59th Street won unanimous approval from the transportation committee of Community Board 4 last night. With the exception of two blocks of Eighth Avenue in front of the Port Authority, the lanes will be fully protected […]

Dan Biederman: “If You Try to Change Things, You Get Opposition”

By Ben Fried | Aug 4, 2011 | 4 Comments

Here’s the second installment of Streetsblog’s interview with Dan Biederman, head of the 34th Street Partnership and the Bryant Park Corporation. In the first part of the interview, Biederman discussed reactions to NYC DOT’s recent public space projects on Broadway, and why the reality on the ground is much better for Midtown than most press […]

A Verbal Tour of Midtown With Public Space Maestro Dan Biederman

By Ben Fried | Aug 3, 2011 | 10 Comments

Before Dan Biederman came to Bryant Park, there were no movable chairs, no free movies on summer evenings, no kiosks selling sandwiches and refreshments. No lunch time crowds and not much in the way of civic life or social activity, either. There was, basically, an open-air drug market in the New York Public Library’s backyard. […]

“Midtown in Motion” to Come With Rad Driver-Distracting Apps

By Brad Aaron | Jul 21, 2011 | 16 Comments

As it is, the NYC DOT “Midtown in Motion” initiative is a bit of a head-scratcher. To learn that the city is devoting well over a million dollars in addition to staff resources to speed up car traffic in Midtown, which the mayor has declared the “lifeblood” of the CBD — is it 2006 again? […]

High-Tech Midtown Traffic System Will Ignore Pedestrians and Buses

By Noah Kazis | Jul 20, 2011 | 11 Comments

The Department of Transportation is rolling out a response to Midtown traffic congestion that is as high-tech as it is intellectually outdated. Microwave sensors, video cameras, and E-ZPass readers will gather traffic information in real-time and beam the information to the DOT’s Queens command center, where engineers will instantly adjust the traffic lights as needed […]

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