Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper East Side

Will 2nd Ave Get Its Protected Bike Lane After Subway Construction Wraps?

By Ben Fried | Jul 17, 2015 | 40 Comments

As the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway wraps up sometime in the next two years, the largest construction zone in the city will turn back into a functional street. Those 40 blocks of Second Avenue on the Upper East Side won’t be the same as before, though. Back in 2010, the city laid out a plan to […]

DOT Finalizes Weak Bike-Share Station Maps for Manhattan Expansion [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Jul 10, 2015 | 21 Comments

DOT’s bike-share expansion maps for the Upper West Side and Upper East Side are now final, and they’re not any better than the draft maps that showed a thinned-out network of stations for some of the city’s densest neighborhoods. The final maps shift a handful of stations around but don’t add any (here’s the UWS final […]

Eyes on the Street: Red Paint for “Queue-Jump” Bus Lanes on the M86

By Stephen Miller | Jul 2, 2015 | 7 Comments

Select Bus Service on 86th Street in Manhattan won’t be getting full bus-only lanes, but riders will benefit from short bus lanes at busy intersections. DOT has added two “queue-jump” lanes where 86th Street and 84th Street meet Fifth Avenue, to keep buses from getting stuck behind traffic waiting at lights. The most important component of the M86 SBS upgrade is off-board fare collection. The sidewalk fare […]

Turning Driver Kills 89-Year-Old on Upper East Side, NYPD Blames Victim

By Brad Aaron | May 15, 2015 | 39 Comments

For the second time in a week, a turning driver has killed a senior on the Upper East Side. Police blamed the victim in the press. John Torson, 89, was crossing E. 61st Street north to south at around 7:19 p.m. Thursday when a 56-year-old woman drove a Lexus SUV into him while turning left from First Avenue, […]

No Right-of-Way Charge for Cab Driver Who Killed Senior in UES Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | May 11, 2015 | 34 Comments

A yellow cab driver fatally struck a senior in an Upper East Side crosswalk Saturday, and no charges were filed by NYPD or Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. The crash occurred in the 19th Precinct, where as of March officers had issued just 10 speeding tickets in 2015. At around 2:43 p.m. Amelia Sterental, 76, was walking […]

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