Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper West Side

The block of Amsterdam Avenue where the driver of an illegal, oversized tractor-trailer critically injured a man yesterday. Photo via Google Street View

E-Bikes Are Banned in NYC, But Crush a Man With an Illegal Big Rig and de Blasio Won’t Care

By Brad Aaron | Jan 23, 2018 | 18 Comments

While Mayor de Blasio and NYPD punish delivery workers for riding electric bicycles, drivers who run people over with semi trucks are not being penalized in any way, even when the truck is too large to be operated legally on city streets.

Broadway at West 88th Street. Photo: Google Maps

Manhattan CB 7 to DOT: Make Broadway a Safe Neighborhood Street Instead of a Speedway

By David Meyer | Dec 7, 2017 | 4 Comments

Broadway still feels like a highway where it cuts through one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the city.

An affordable housing developer wants to expand the Valley Lodge transitional homeless shelter and build new apartments on the sites of three parking garages between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue on W. 108th Street. Photo: Google Maps

Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing Clears Community Board 7

By David Meyer | Dec 6, 2017 | 7 Comments

The vote means that several hundred car storage slots on West 108th Street will almost certainly give way to hundreds of subsidized apartments.

CB 7 Committees Endorse Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing

By David Meyer | Nov 22, 2017 | 1 Comment

The project would demolish two garages with 675 parking spaces to make room for about 200 additional subsidized housing units.

DOT says this is the best it can do for safety on 110th Street. Image: DOT

CB 7 to DOT: Unprotected Bike Lanes Still Not Good Enough for 110th Street

By David Meyer | Nov 15, 2017 | 20 Comments

For the second time this year, DOT came to Manhattan Community Board 7 with a redesign of 110th Street that doesn't include protected bike lanes. And for the second time, board members told DOT to go back to the drawing board.

Car Storage Clashes Against Affordable Housing on the Upper West Side

By David Meyer | Oct 31, 2017 | 10 Comments

Which do New Yorkers value more: parking garages to store cars or apartments to house neighbors? Rarely is the question framed as starkly as with the plan to demolish two city-owned parking garages and build 304 units of subsidized housing on 108th Street.

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