Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

The Tour de Bronx

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 23, 2006 | 11 Comments

Sunday morning was the Tour de Bronx. An estimated 5,000 riders took to the streets. The highlight of the ride was the trip along a car-free Sheridan Expressway. The South Bronx River Watershed Alliance, a coalition of community groups and citywide organizations believes that the 1.25 mile stretch of road along the Bronx River can […]

Car Alarm Ruins Otherwise Excellent Meal

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 1, 2006 | 8 Comments

I had dinner last Saturday with a couple of people at Enzo’s Cafe on Arthur Avenue after a day spent helping prepare the route for the New York City Century bicycle tour, which this year will be sending twice as many people to the Bronx as it has in the past. To enjoy great outside air, we sat on the sidewalk. As one of […]

Streetfilms: Car-Free Sunday on the Grand Concourse

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 18, 2006 | No Comments

Car-Free Sunday on the Grand ConcourseA Clarence Eckerson, Jr. StreetfilmRunning time: 3:58 – 12.35 MB, QuickTime Back in the early 1990s, three-and-a-half miles of the Grand Concourse, a major roadway in the Bronx, was closed to cars every Sunday from July thru November. The car-free time provided residents with much-needed open space to bike, walk, play, […]

The Post ‘Drops the Ball’ on Yankee Stadium Story

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 12, 2006 | 3 Comments

The Post had a story yesterday reporting on the last ditch effort to stop the Yankee’s bad plan to build a new stadium with fewer seats for us Yankee fans but dump more traffic and emissions on the already suffering low-income neighborhoods of the south Bronx. Here’s how the Post characterizes opponents of the plan: Stadium opponents, led by […]

Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 1, 2006 | 4 Comments

Saturday, July 29, 2006, at the Jesup Avenue bridge over the Cross Bronx "Expressway." I called 311 to get the city to tow that abandoned car away, but the operator needed an address or an intersection to locate this vehicle. An address would be a stretch, and the computer didn’t accept "Jesup Avenue and the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’" as a […]

Fewer Seats But More Cars at Yankee Stadium

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 18, 2006 | 2 Comments

Anybody else catch the Discovery Channel’s 2-hour special on global warming on Sunday night? It recapped the many problems we can expect to see from global warming: potential death for millions of people, millions more forced to move as coastal cities are permanently flooded, extinction for many species of plants and animals, more frequent severe weather […]

Show More Stories