Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

One of the Most Dangerous Streets in the Bronx Is Getting a Road Diet

By Stephen Miller | Jul 7, 2014 | 10 Comments

White Plains Road, running 2.8 miles between East Tremont and Birchall Avenues, is one of the Bronx’s most dangerous streets, with more traffic deaths and severe injuries than 90 percent of the other streets in the borough. Most of this wide, overbuilt road is set to receive a road diet by September, converting two lanes […]

Bronx Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Abigail Lino Gets Six Months in Jail

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2014 | No Comments

A hit-and-run driver who killed a woman in the Bronx in 2013 will serve six months in jail. Harlem resident Abigail Lino, 24, was crossing Bruckner Avenue near a Longwood club at around 3 a.m. last August 31 when Leroy Forest hit her with “a speeding silver SUV,” according to the Daily News: Witnesses said Lino’s […]

New Bronx River Greenway Link Would Remake Asphalt Expanse

By Stephen Miller | Jun 9, 2014 | 4 Comments

After years of inter-agency wrangling, a wide-open intersection in the Bronx is set for a complete redesign that will include a new link in the Bronx River Greenway. The city presented a preliminary design [PDF] to Community Board 6’s transportation committee last Thursday. While the plan is a big step forward, it lacks a crosswalk that would […]

Driver Who Killed Bronx Pedestrian Pleads to Leaving Scene

By Brad Aaron | May 5, 2014 | No Comments

A hit-and-run motorist who killed a Bronx pedestrian in a 2013 crash pled guilty last week to leaving the scene, but could be sentenced to as little as probation. Harlem resident Abigail Lino, 24, was outside a Bruckner Avenue club in Longwood at around 3 a.m. last August 31, reports said, when a security guard […]

Grand Concourse Will Be the Next Arterial With 25 MPH Limit

By Stephen Miller | Apr 17, 2014 | 11 Comments

Local elected officials and advocates joined NYC DOT and NYPD this morning to unveil the city’s second “arterial slow zone” on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, where speed limits will be dropped to 25 mph and traffic signals will be retimed to discourage speeding. The lower speed limit will apply to 5.2 miles of […]

Full House at First Bronx Vision Zero Town Hall

By Brad Aaron | Apr 3, 2014 | 17 Comments

Over a hundred people turned out for a Vision Zero town hall in the Bronx on Tuesday, Bronx News 12 reports. The event was hosted by freshman City Council Member Ritchie Torres at the Bronx Library Center on East Kingsbridge Road. Council Member Vanessa Gibson, DOT Borough Commissioner Constance Moran, and representatives from NYPD were also […]

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