Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about South Bronx

NYPD Ticketing People for Riding Bikes on the Willis Avenue Bridge Bike Path

By Stephen Miller | Nov 15, 2013 | 98 Comments

NYPD is at it again, handing out tickets to cyclists for riding on a bike path. This time, the 25th Precinct was handing out sidewalk-riding summonses to people riding the shared bicycle-pedestrian path on the Willis Avenue Bridge between East Harlem and Mott Haven. Just before 9:00 this morning, reader Joe Rienti was commuting from East Harlem to […]

City Recommends Turning Sheridan Into Surface Road. Your Move, State DOT.

By Stephen Miller | Jun 26, 2013 | 4 Comments

Community activists in the South Bronx have been fighting a long time to remove the Sheridan Expressway, a short freeway that cuts off their neighborhoods from the Bronx River. After the state Department of Transportation rejected the teardown in 2010 and city agencies ruled it out again last year, advocates trimmed their sails and worked for the best option short […]

Eyes on the Street: No Parking in the Low Post

By Brad Aaron | Jun 18, 2013 | 8 Comments

Streetsblog reader Susan Donovan, a.k.a. Futurebird, posted this pic on Instagram yesterday. It’s a DIY basketball court on Walton Avenue near Joyce Kilmer Park, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium. Writes Donovan: Creative traffic calming in the Bronx! My neighbors have painted a basketball shooting zone on the street near the bike lane and hydrant […]

City Close to Recommending Surface Road Replacement for Sheridan

By Stephen Miller | May 23, 2013 | 13 Comments

The city is close to recommending that the Sheridan Expressway, a short, sparsely-used interstate that community activists have targeted for removal for years, be transformed into a street-level roadway that opens land for new development and improves neighborhood access to parks along the Bronx River. The news came Tuesday night at a public meeting attended by […]

Mott Haven Residents Rally for Safe Streets and Truck Enforcement

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2013 | 3 Comments

Early Saturday afternoon, about 25 people gathered at the corner of St. Annes Avenue and East 138th Street in the South Bronx, protesting heavy truck traffic and deadly driving in the Mott Haven neighborhood. A series of pedestrian deaths in recent months and the lack of truck route enforcement from the 40th Precinct — as well as […]

Sheridan Alternatives Offer Hope for Surface Road in Place of Expressway

By Stephen Miller | Mar 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

While the city’s refusal to remove the Sheridan Expressway left South Bronx advocates frustrated, the fight to transform the under-used highway continues, with the city’s federally-funded planning study on track for completion in June. A presentation to community partners last week [PDF] shed new light on options the city is considering, offering some hope that the highway’s […]

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