Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Staten Island

Electeds, Local Media Wage War on Staten Island Cyclists

By Brad Aaron | Aug 25, 2009 | 27 Comments

The recent motorist assault on a Staten Island cyclist is a symptom of anti-bike bias routinely displayed by local politicians and the Staten Island Advance, as chronicled on a web site encouraging action for safe streets. Council Members Vincent Ignizio (l) and James Oddo scientifically prove that bikes can’t fit on Jefferson Avenue in Dongan […]

State DOT Pulls Transit Bait-and-Switch on Staten Island

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2009 | 17 Comments

Photo: SI Advance via MTR. One of the more common excuses we’ve been hearing from local pols during the current MTA crisis is that "service never improves," so why bother to fund transit? Set aside, for the moment, the fact that subways and buses are moving way more New Yorkers than they did just a […]

MTA Blame Game: The View from Staten Island

By Ben Fried | Apr 6, 2009 | 11 Comments

Here’s State Senator Andrew Lanza, a Staten Island Republican, explaining why he supports tolls on the East River bridges. For Staten Island drivers looking at a $3 hike in cash tolls to cross the Verrazano (or a $1.32 hike for locals with E-ZPass), the sight of other motorists getting a free pass into Manhattan must […]

Two Staten Island Pedestrians Killed in Four Days; One Driver Charged

By Brad Aaron | Mar 2, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: New York Daily News Two pedestrians were killed by drivers in Staten Island in separate incidents last week. Despite indications that both deaths were caused by careless driving — one motorist struck an elderly man while making a left turn, the other jumped a curb and slammed into a man waiting for a bus […]

A Transit Miracle on 34th Street

By Brad Aaron | Apr 17, 2008 | 66 Comments

NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan’s 34th Street into a river-to-river "transitway." In what she half-jokingly called "probably the first-ever co-presentation" between their two agencies, Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan stood with New York City Transit President Howard Roberts earlier this week to unveil the city’s current Bus Rapid Transit program in its […]

S.I. Ped Killings Cause Some to Ask, What’s an “Accident?”

By Brad Aaron | Dec 21, 2007 | 16 Comments

Rev. Lyle Guttu, a fixture at Staten Island’s Wagner College since 1972, was struck by an SUV in the West Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island last Saturday. He died Sunday evening. The Staten Island Advance reports: Guttu was crossing Bement, heading east from Chase Manhattan Bank at around 2:40 p.m. Saturday, when he was struck […]

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