Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Washington Heights

Espaillat to Westchester: My District Is Your Doormat

By Brad Aaron | Mar 4, 2009 | 8 Comments

Espaillat and Sander in March 2008. Photo: Brad Aaron. Last March, Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat stood with Mayor Bloomberg in Fordham Plaza, celebrating the announcement of the city’s inaugural Select Bus Service line. In the thick of the battle over congestion pricing, its fate to be determined within days, Espaillat was one of few state […]

CB 12 Committee Says “No” to Parking Permits for All Teachers

By Brad Aaron | Feb 3, 2009 | 15 Comments

As we reported last week, Maria Baez and a handful of other City Council members want to issue free parking permits to every public school teacher in New York City. As the system presently employs some 95,000 full-time teachers, in addition to 18,000 part-time teachers and paraprofessionals, Intro 894 would encourage hundreds of thousands of […]

Toll-Free Bridges Already “Tough” on South Bronx and Upper Manhattan

By Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2008 | 26 Comments

The red lines show southbound routes through the South Bronx via the "free" Third Ave. Bridge and the tolled Triborough. The blue line charts the toll-free northbound route from the FDR across the Willis Avenue Bridge. All the gnashing of teeth over East River bridge tolls has for the most part drowned out discussion of […]

Uptown Hudson River Greenway Detour in Effect

By Brad Aaron | Dec 5, 2008 | 6 Comments

A temporary detour along the Hudson River Greenway in Washington Heights went into effect Thursday. The closure, related to work on the George Washington Bridge, will reroute cyclists to Broadway and Ft. Washington Avenue between 158th and 181st Streets. According to a Port Authority flier [PDF], pedestrians may access the park and riverfront through the […]

Blocking the Box: Traffic Concerns Nix Big Retail From GWB Bus Station

By Brad Aaron | Dec 2, 2008 | 10 Comments

Rendering: PA Associates Plans to bring "big box" retail to a remodeled George Washington Bridge Bus Station have been scuttled due to fears that it would attract more car-commuting shoppers to Washington Heights. Instead, according to the Manhattan Times, the Port Authority will build spaces for about a dozen smaller commercial shops and offices, says […]

Another Interruption Planned for Hudson Greenway

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2008 | 19 Comments

Just after the long-awaited off-road link from Inwood to Battery Park was completed, Streetsblog got word of a pending Hudson River Greenway detour due to planned work by the Port Authority on the Manhattan tower of the George Washington Bridge. According to the signage plan [PDF], cyclists and ped traffic will be rerouted to Broadway […]

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