Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper West Side

Will Vance Prosecute Driver Who Killed Yolanda Casal for Deadly Negligence?

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2011 | 12 Comments

A woman is dead her daughter injured after they were struck by an unlicensed driver on the Upper West Side on Thursday. Anais Emmanuel and her mother, 78-year-old Yolanda Casal, were crossing Amsterdam Avenue near West 98th Street around 5 p.m. when Edwin Carrasco, 38, backed his Ford Explorer into them while gunning for a […]

Eyes on the Street: Second Crash in Three Days at Columbus Ave. Corner

By Noah Kazis | May 20, 2011 | 14 Comments

On Tuesday evening, a van driver headed east on 72nd Street jumped the curb at Columbus Avenue and crashed into a light pole. Last night, a driver jumped another car at the same intersection, ending up with a front wheel perched on its mangled hood. Reader Liz Patek sent in the shot above. Something about […]

Eyes on the Street: Another Curb-Jumping Motorist on the UWS

By Ben Fried | May 18, 2011 | 6 Comments

Another day, another motorist barreling onto a New York City sidewalk. Reader Liz Patek sends this shot of the crash aftermath at Columbus and 72nd Street yesterday evening, where a van driver, apparently heading east, jumped the curb and crashed into a light pole. The tally on CrashStat reveals that 20 pedestrians and eight cyclists […]

UWS Shows Support for Car-Free Park, But Broader Campaign Is Lacking

By Noah Kazis | May 17, 2011 | 2 Comments

Last night’s unanimous votes in support of a summer-long car-free Central Park by Manhattan Community Board 7’s parks and transportation committees moved the ball forward for advocates of car-free parks. With no movement at the mayoral level on the issue, any successful push will have to come from the bottom up. Similar statements of community […]

UWS Struggles to Solve Central Park Bike Crackdown, Likes East-West Paths

By Noah Kazis | Mar 29, 2011 | 9 Comments

Upper West Side residents want to make Central Park once again a welcoming place for recreational cyclists, based on the near-unanimous position of Community Board 7’s parks and transportation committees at a joint meeting last night. But with the NYPD intransigently committed to its ticketing blitz and DOT unwilling to pay for changes to the […]

Stringer Explains His “Philosophy of Public Engagement” on Street Designs

By Noah Kazis | Feb 11, 2011 | 18 Comments

Since Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has promised to take his approach to street redesigns, first put into place by the Columbus Avenue working group, borough-wide, Streetsblog decided to check in with him to see just what this process would look like. The details are still being worked out. Stringer wasn’t yet sure, for example, […]

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