Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Washington Heights

DOT Proposes Road Diets for Two Uptown Avenues

By Stephen Miller | May 8, 2015 | 8 Comments

Two dangerous uptown avenues could get road diets and bike lanes this summer under a DOT plan presented to the Manhattan Community Board 12 transportation committee on Monday [PDF]. A plan for Sherman Avenue received the committee’s support, while a design for St. Nicholas Avenue is headed for at least one more month of review. There were 25 serious […]

Eyes on the Street: Upper Manhattan’s First Protected Bike Lane in Progress

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2015 | 22 Comments

Reader Jonathan Rabinowitz sent this photo of Upper Manhattan’s first protected bike lane, now under construction on Fort George Hill, a one-way street that connects Dyckman Street in Inwood with Fairview Avenue to the south, along the western border of Harlem River Park. This project will give cyclists a north-south route between Inwood and Washington Heights by allotting 11 feet of […]

Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Washington Heights After CB 12 Vote

By Stephen Miller | Mar 25, 2015 | 7 Comments

Washington Heights will get protected bike lanes and major pedestrian upgrades after Manhattan Community Board 12 endorsed a DOT proposal last night. Sections of 170th Street, 158th Street, and Edgecombe Avenue will get protected bike lanes, and pedestrian crossings will be improved on Edgecombe Avenue and at the complex intersection of 158th Street, Riverside Drive, and Edward Morgan Place […]

Plaza de Las Americas Reclaims Space for People in Washington Heights

By Stephen Miller | Mar 20, 2015 | 55 Comments

The city broke ground this morning on a new plaza in Washington Heights set to open early next year. The project will transform an extra-wide asphalt block into a permanent public space hosting vendors and a farmers market. Plaza de Las Americas is located on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue. The project, which was selected in the […]

Will Rodriguez and Brewer Reappoint CB 12 Crank Jim “Honey Child” Berlin?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2015 | 4 Comments

City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer can remove a barrier to safer streets in Upper Manhattan by relieving Jim Berlin of his spot on Community Board 12, which covers Washington Heights and Inwood. As Stephen Miller reported Thursday, Berlin and fellow CB 12 member Anita Barberis voted against a DOT […]

CB 12 Committee Puts Parking Over Safety in Vote on Uptown Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Mar 5, 2015 | 35 Comments

DOT is proposing significant bicycle and pedestrian upgrades in Washington Heights, but the Manhattan Community Board 12 transportation committee wants to nibble away at a protected bike lane in the plan. The committee voted to support the DOT plan but with modifications that would shrink a proposed protected bike lane on Edgecombe Avenue to preserve […]

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