Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about José Serrano

Bloomberg Says Car-Free High Bridge Will Be Open by Next Year

By Brad Aaron | Jan 11, 2013 | 6 Comments

After talking up bike-share on the airwaves this morning, Mayor Bloomberg headed uptown, where he and other electeds broke ground for the restoration of the High Bridge. The High Bridge is the city’s oldest standing bridge, and connects the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx with Washington Heights. Built as part of the Croton Aqueduct in 1848, […]

Deferred, Not Defeated: Sheridan Teardown Advocates Move Ahead

By Stephen Miller | Dec 6, 2012 | 5 Comments

In the wake of the city’s refusal to consider removing the Sheridan Expressway, advocates from the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance gathered last night at a town hall meeting to revise their game plan. Although the long-term vision of removing the highway lives on, the discussion focused on other potential improvements along the Sheridan corridor. “We started […]

City Abruptly Rejects Sheridan Teardown; Serrano and Advocates Fight Back

By Ben Fried | Jun 8, 2012 | 28 Comments

The Bloomberg administration has abruptly ruled out the possibility of tearing down the lightly-trafficked Sheridan Expressway and replacing it with mixed-use development, jobs, and parks. Neighborhood advocates and electeds are vowing to fight the decision, which they say fails to follow through on the comprehensive analysis the city promised to conduct as part of a […]

Everyone’s On Board for East Harlem Bike Lanes — Except NYCDOT

By Noah Kazis | Apr 29, 2011 | 12 Comments

Is there any neighborhood in New York City that has asked for more and received less, in terms of safe street improvements, than East Harlem? In 2010, days after it was announced that the First and Second Avenue protected bike lanes were on hold between 34th Street and 125th Street, Community Board 11 members blasted […]

Fight for Completed East Side Bike Lanes Comes to City Hall Steps

By Noah Kazis | Nov 10, 2010 | 13 Comments

After rallying on the steps of City Hall this afternoon, Transportation Alternatives delivered 2,500 handwritten letters urging Mayor Bloomberg to complete the protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues. Joined by elected officials and more than forty supporters, T.A. called on Bloomberg to fulfill the promise of safe walking and cycling on Manhattan’s East […]

Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 19, 2007 | 43 Comments

This is a guest post by Susan Murray, author of the Urban Naturalist. The High Bridge, a graceful stone and steel bridge, reminiscent of the great Roman aqueducts, spans the Harlem River between parks in Washington Heights and the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx. Erected in 1848, decades before the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, it […]

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