Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

Eyes on the Street: Five Borough Bike Tour

By Jason Varone | May 7, 2007 | 4 Comments

What a big weekend for public cycling events. This Sunday, more than 30,000 cyclists enjoyed perfect weather for the 30th anniversary of the Five Borough Bike Tour, a 42-mile traffic free ride through the city including a jaunt along the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn. It is the largest recreational cycling event in America. Photo: diddlbiker/Flickr

Co-op City Group Wants Bus Rapid Transit to Keep Its Distance

By Jason Varone | Apr 10, 2007 | 3 Comments

Even though Bus Rapid Transit may have the support of the city’s DOT, more roadblocks may await its implementation — in the form of community groups set on protecting the status quo in their neighborhoods. A dispute over one route is brewing in the Bronx, as reported in a recent Daily News story: The proposed […]

City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2007 | 16 Comments

What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"? How about forcing afflicted residents to help foot the bill? That’s what could […]

Safe Routes to Schools: Yesterday’s Press Event

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg and a P.S. 21 student at yesterday’s Safe Routes to Schools announcement in the Bronx. The advocacy work that helped make this event happen: Paper and Balloons Don’t Save Children’s Lives (PDF file), an article from Transportation Alternatives Magazine. And here’s a Safe Routes to Schools timeline.

Eyes on the Street: Occupied Territory

By Aaron Donovan | Nov 21, 2006 | 15 Comments

Here is a vehicle up in the Bronx that is too large for its driveway. So its owner just takes the sidewalk.

The Bronx is Burning Bicycling

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 26, 2006 | 3 Comments

In the aftermath of last weekend’s 5,000 rider Tour de Bronx, I thought it might be worth revisiting the the Department of City Planning’s August 2006 Bronx Harlem River Bicycle and Pedestrian Study. The study identifies a number of specific ways to carve out space for cyclists and pedestrians and help neighborhoods of the South Bronx get better connected to […]

Show More Stories