Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

Planning For Growth and Safer Streets at Bronx Metro-North Stations

By Stephen Miller | Aug 28, 2014 | 6 Comments

Once the MTA’s East Side Access project is finally complete, a few additional upgrades will allow Metro-North’s New Haven Line trains to stop at new stations in the East Bronx and cross the Hell Gate Bridge before heading to Penn Station. The Bronx is also expected to grow faster than any other borough in the coming years. With both […]

City Begins to Reclaim Space for Pedestrians at Fordham Plaza

By Stephen Miller | Aug 28, 2014 | 5 Comments

The multi-year project to improve Fordham Plaza in the Bronx — a critical transit hub — entered its latest phase yesterday with the groundbreaking for a bigger and better public space for pedestrians. Each day, more than 80,000 pedestrians flow through Fordham Plaza, the crossroads of a dozen bus lines (including two Select Bus Service […]

15-Day Maximum Sentence for Unlicensed Driver Who Killed Bronx Senior

By Brad Aaron | Aug 1, 2014 | 12 Comments

An unlicensed driver who killed a pedestrian in the Bronx last year was charged with only a traffic infraction that carries a nominal fine and a maximum 15-day jail term. Nabaali Cletus hit 82-year-old Manuel Verdesoto with a Volvo as the senior crossed White Plains Road at Watson Avenue on the evening of May 15, 2013, according to […]

How a Non-Profit Housing Developer Brought Safer Streets to the South Bronx

By Stephen Miller | Jul 24, 2014 | 3 Comments

When the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, known as WHEDco, was founded in 1992, the dark days of arson and abandonment in the South Bronx were still fresh in people’s minds. The organization set out to build new housing in a devastated neighborhood — and decided to take a broader view of community development by also […]

Bronx Advocates Press State DOT to Take Action on Sheridan Plan

By Stephen Miller | Jul 17, 2014 | No Comments

After years of wrangling, advocates, businesses, and elected officials have gotten behind a city plan to convert the Sheridan Expressway into a boulevard and take trucks off local streets by building direct ramps from the Bruckner Expressway to Hunts Point. Now it’s up to the state to turn the plan into reality, and the first […]

Bronx Advocates Push for New Pedestrian Plaza in Soundview

By Stephen Miller | Jul 15, 2014 | 3 Comments

Near the intersection of Morrison and Westchester Avenues in Soundview, just a block from the Bronx River Parkway, one block separates a forlorn green triangle from Parque de Los Niños and its well-used benches and baseball diamonds. Now, a local group is hoping to phase in public space upgrades to the area through DOT’s plaza […]

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