Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper West Side

Helen Rosenthal Won’t Say Why She Reappointed Street Safety Foe to CB 7

By Stephen Miller | Apr 28, 2015 | 29 Comments

Members of Families For Safe Streets asked Council Member Helen Rosenthal at a town hall meeting last night why she reappointed street safety foe and longtime Community Board 7 transportation committee co-chair Dan Zweig. But Rosenthal refused to answer questions from Upper West Siders who have lost loved ones to traffic violence. Zweig has spent years stonewalling […]

Helen Rosenthal Asks DOT to Install Protected Bike Lane on Amsterdam Ave

By Stephen Miller | Apr 10, 2015 | 9 Comments

Council Member Helen Rosenthal has come out strongly for a protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue, sending a letter to DOT this week asking for a plan to calm traffic and provide a northbound complement to the Columbus Avenue bike lane. “We need to make Amsterdam Avenue safer for families, and that’s just what this street redesign […]

New Columbus Avenue Design: Protected Bike Lane By David H. Koch Theater

By Ben Fried | Feb 12, 2015 | 15 Comments

The Columbus Avenue bike lane will provide a more continuous protected route past Lincoln Center under a revised DOT proposal that got a thumbs up from Manhattan Community Board 7’s transportation committee Tuesday night [PDF]. Currently, there is no physical protection for people biking between 69th Street and 59th Street. An earlier version of the […]

UWS Residents to Brewer: No More Street Safety Obstructionists on CB 7

By Stephen Miller | Feb 9, 2015 | 17 Comments

Will Gale Brewer reappoint noted street safety obstructionist Dan Zweig to Community Board 7? Families of traffic violence victims came to her State of the Borough address yesterday seeking an answer. Protesters stood outside Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall with signs — “Gale, You Have the Power to Fix CB 7” and “Lives Matter More Than Parking […]

UWS Residents Silently Protest Manhattan CB 7 Inaction on Street Safety

By Lisa Orman | Feb 4, 2015 | 42 Comments

[Last night, residents of the Upper West Side staged a silent protest at the general meeting of Manhattan Community Board 7, hoping to get the attention of a board that has repeatedly failed to take action on street redesigns proven to reduce injuries and deaths. Local residents fighting for street safety improvements find themselves stymied […]

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