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Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk” Users to Remain in the Dark

By Brad Aaron | Nov 17, 2009 | 13 Comments

Nighttime visibility on the Hudson River Greenway north of W. 102nd Street has not improved since Jacob-uptown took this photo a year ago. In the fall of 2007, 2008, and again this year, Streetsblog readers have alerted us to hazardous conditions on the "Cherry Walk" segment of the Hudson River Greenway. According to the city, […]

Stim Funds to Kickstart South Bronx Greenway

By Ben Fried | Apr 3, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Lafayette Avenue section of the South Bronx Greenway. Before/after: Sustainable South Bronx. We’ve got a few more details about another local ped-bike project getting a lift from stimulus cash. The street improvements announced for Hunts Point and Port Morris in the Bronx will fund the first three sections of the South Bronx Greenway. This […]

Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk” Still Dark and Dangerous

By Brad Aaron | Nov 26, 2008 | 21 Comments

Streetsblogger Jacob-uptown: "You can see many of the street lamps on Henry Hudson Parkway are burned out. This makes the greenway completely unlit, except for oncoming car headlights." Last December, Washington Heights resident Lars Klove alerted us to night-time conditions on a segment of the Hudson River Greenway known as Cherry Walk, which lies roughly […]

America’s Least Wanted Highways

By Ben Fried | Sep 22, 2008 | 17 Comments

The Congress for New Urbanism released a highly entertaining top ten list today: the North American highways most in need of demolition. At the top is Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct, a structurally damaged elevated highway that, if removed, would free up 335 acres of public land by Elliott Bay. New York’s Sheridan Expressway, which traverses […]

Streetfilms: Biking the Falls

By Ben Fried | Aug 1, 2008 | 9 Comments

Before the four "New York City Waterfalls" began gushing along the East River this June, DOT marked a bike route passing by each installation and released a guide to go with it. In this Streetfilm Elizabeth Press shows us a recent bike tour of the falls, led by DOT commish Janette Sadik-Khan. Special bonus feature: […]

Watching the Water Fall, by Bike

By Brad Aaron | Jun 18, 2008 | 6 Comments

Next Thursday, artist Olaf Eliasson’s much-anticipated "New York City Waterfalls" installation will debut along the East River. The project, as elegantly described in this week’s New Yorker, "features four tall, widely separated, openwork steel towers housing powerful pumps that will pull river water up to a high basin and send it cascading down again, continuously, […]

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