Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about South Bronx

DOT Shows Off Grand Concourse Improvements

By Ben Fried | Dec 23, 2008 | 25 Comments

Lou Gehrig Plaza: No longer a parking lot for Bronx County Courthouse employees. Bronx electeds joined DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan yesterday to mark a completed round of ped-bike enhancements to the Grand Concourse and 161st Street. The package includes the newly ped-friendly Lou Gehrig Plaza (in front of the Bronx County Courthouse), and wider medians […]

Toll-Free Bridges Already “Tough” on South Bronx and Upper Manhattan

By Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2008 | 26 Comments

The red lines show southbound routes through the South Bronx via the "free" Third Ave. Bridge and the tolled Triborough. The blue line charts the toll-free northbound route from the FDR across the Willis Avenue Bridge. All the gnashing of teeth over East River bridge tolls has for the most part drowned out discussion of […]

Pedestrians, Bus Riders, and Cyclists Get a Better Bronx Hub

By Ben Fried | Dec 1, 2008 | 9 Comments

These DOT photos [PDF] show off the revamped Bronx Hub — the shopping district and transit nexus in Melrose that just received a slew of livable streets improvements. Planters, surfacing, and a few strategically placed concrete islands demarcate pretty substantial new swaths of pedestrian space, including a block-long plaza (shown above and in bird’s eye […]

City Traded Parking Spots for Yankee Stadium Suite

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2008 | 5 Comments

Not that we need more evidence that the Yankee Stadium parking deal was rancid to the core, but a Saturday story in the Times reveals the sad details of the Bloomberg administration’s push for luxury game day digs — a 12-seat suite in left field — for which it traded 250 spots to the team. […]

Bronx Hub Gets Smorgasbord of Ped-Bike-Transit Enhancements

By Ben Fried | Oct 10, 2008 | 5 Comments

Work is underway on a major livable streets makeover [PDF] for the Hub — a shopping mecca in Melrose that some have called "the Times Square of the Bronx." The DOT plan simplifies a complex traffic pattern where three streets converge. In the process, space is transferred from vehicles to sidewalk extensions, pedestrian refuges, and […]

America’s Least Wanted Highways

By Ben Fried | Sep 22, 2008 | 17 Comments

The Congress for New Urbanism released a highly entertaining top ten list today: the North American highways most in need of demolition. At the top is Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct, a structurally damaged elevated highway that, if removed, would free up 335 acres of public land by Elliott Bay. New York’s Sheridan Expressway, which traverses […]

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