Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about SoHo

Dan Fellegara Killed by Cab Driver in Manhattan, No Charges Filed

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2012 | 15 Comments

An outlaw committed suicide on Sixth Avenue early Sunday morning. At least that’s how the death of Dan Fellegara was reported by the Post and Daily News. Fellegara, a construction manager from Baltimore who, according to most accounts, was 29, was crossing Sixth at Watts Street in Soho at around 4:30 a.m. when he fell […]

In Hudson Square, Workers and Businesses Demand More Bike Racks

By Noah Kazis | Feb 8, 2012 | 14 Comments

Workers in the Hudson Square area are demanding bike infrastructure and employers are helping them get it. The Department of Transportation has installed 45 new bike racks in response to requests from the local business improvement district, the Hudson Square Connection, which covers Manhattan’s west side between Canal and Houston Streets. The 45 new bike racks […]

Spot the Celebrity Bike-Share Planner

By Ben Fried | Feb 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

It was another evening of hands-on bike-share station planning at Manhattan Community Board 2 last night, as New Yorkers hunched over maps of SoHo and Greenwich Village, marking the best places to site bike-share kiosks. If you live or work in the bike-share service area, you really ought to mark your calendar for the station […]

Hudson Square BID Puts Pedestrians First Near Entrance to Holland Tunnel

By Noah Kazis | Aug 11, 2011 | 6 Comments

Every afternoon, all four lanes of Varick Street are packed solid with traffic heading to the Holland Tunnel. Drivers block crosswalks and cross-streets as they press forward, hoping the traffic would continue to move ahead and guessing wrong. On Friday afternoons, you can hear the honking from Streetsblog HQ, ten blocks over and twelve stories […]

Saudi Arabia on the Hudson: NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt

By Noah Kazis | Jun 10, 2011 | 131 Comments

When Jasmijn Rijcken, the general manager of the VANMOOF bicycle company, traveled from Amsterdam to New York in late April, she was excited to see what she’d heard described as a city that had embraced bicycling. It wasn’t NYC’s new protected bike lanes that defined her ride through the city, however, but the New York […]

SoHo’s Rejected Pop-Up Cafés Won’t Appear Elsewhere

By Noah Kazis | Mar 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

Last Thursday evening, Manhattan Community Board 2 voted down five of six approved pop-up cafés in their neighborhood, choosing parking spaces over public seating. In the wake of that defeat, we were hoping that, as with Midwestern governors sending their high speed rail dollars to California, their loss would be someone else’s gain. Would those […]

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