Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about SoHo

Eyes on the Street: Driver Shatters Storefront on Lafayette

By Ben Fried | Apr 25, 2013 | 42 Comments

We’re still filling in the details on this one, but here’s a look at the Gold + Williams furniture storefront on Lafayette and Kenmare in SoHo this afternoon. It looks like the driver kept going straight on westbound Kenmare, even though the street ends. This block is very close to Streetsblog HQ and gets a […]

Eyes on the Street: How About a Slow Zone for Prince Street?

By Ben Fried | Feb 8, 2013 | 8 Comments

Brooklyn Spoke’s Doug Gordon tweeted this photo Wednesday morning. This crash happened at the intersection of Prince and Crosby in Soho, which gets a ton of foot traffic and sees some of the highest bike counts in the city. It’s only random chance that someone didn’t get hit. One change that would help regulate drivers’ […]

CB 2 Committee OKs Varick Street Traffic Calming, Punts on Bike Corrals

By Stephen Miller | Jan 4, 2013 | 38 Comments

With two unanimous 9-0 votes, Manhattan Community Board 2’s transportation committee took one step forward and one step back for livable streets last night, voting for safety fixes at a problematic intersection while punting on a proposal for bike corrals after local NIMBY extraordinaire Sean Sweeney showed up to squash it. A request for traffic calming […]

CB 2 Committee Votes to Bring NYC’s First “Green Wave” to Prince Street

By Stephen Miller | Dec 12, 2012 | 9 Comments

Prince Street in Soho is a candidate to receive the city’s first “green wave” — traffic signals timed to align with cyclists’ travel speeds — after a vote of support from the Manhattan Community Board 2 transportation committee. Prince Street sees some of the highest bike mode-share of any NYC street, but the signal timing doesn’t […]

Tonight: CB 2 Seeks Changes to Sixth and Houston Following Deadly Crash

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 is looking for input on how to improve safety at Sixth Avenue and Houston Street, the intersection where Jessica Dworkin was killed by a truck driver two weeks ago. “Everything’s open,” says committee chair Shirley Secunda, “from street geometry to police enforcement and investigation to current regulations […]

CB 2 Committee Signs Off on Slate of SoHo Pedestrian Improvements

By Brad Aaron | Jun 14, 2012 | 6 Comments

The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 this week unanimously recommended that DOT implement two projects that would bring a menu of pedestrian safety improvements to SoHo, including a number of intersections near the Holland Tunnel. At the intersection of Canal Street and Hudson Street, DOT plans to add median islands and bump-outs to […]

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