Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

One More Reason to Tear Down the Sheridan Expressway

By Ben Fried | | 8 Comments
The Post reported last week that the Cross-Bronx Expressway — perhaps the most infamous urban freeway on the planet — has earned the title "America’s worst highway." According to traffic analysis firm INRIX, several of the nation’s top bottlenecks are located on the Cross-Bronx: Westbound exits at the Sheridan Expressway rank third worst, White Plains […]

Bloomberg Wants Stim Funds for More Bronx Parking

By Brad Aaron | | 23 Comments
Image via Crain’s Someone in the Bloomberg administration needs to sit the mayor down and explain to him the relationship between parking and driving. Streetsblog has followed Bloomberg’s parking escapades on the West Side of Manhattan and in the South Bronx. Now, the man behind PlaNYC wants federal stimulus funds to finish a new six-story parking […]

DOT Shows Off Grand Concourse Improvements

By Ben Fried | | 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 […]

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

By Ben Fried | | 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 […]
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