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CB7 debated the resolution (seen onscreen) Tuesday night. Photo: Eve Kessler

ANALYSIS: 'Parking' Study Was Neutral — But It's The First Salvo in War on Cars

By Eve Kessler | Feb 6, 2020 | No Comments

An Upper West Side panel's call for a "study" of curbside use was anodyne, but the study may lead to changes that will forever end the notion of "free" parking. Let's hope.

Safe-streets activists hold signs at Community Board 7's meeting. Andrew Rosenthal is at right. Photo: Eve Kessler

Upper West Side Panel Approves Neutered ‘No Parking’ Study

By Eve Kessler | Feb 5, 2020 | No Comments

CB 7's much-neutered resolution passes — finally! — with a huge display of parking angst.

A pro-car Upper West Side resident rises to defend his entitlement at the CB7 Transportation Committee Meeting in 2019. Some CB7 members are sorry that the body passed a resolution asking the city to consider curb uses other than parking. Photo: Eve Kessler

IT’S A DRAW: CB7 Panel Passes ‘Parking’ Resolution, But ‘Consensus’ Must Be Had

By Eve Kessler | Dec 11, 2019 | No Comments

Proposal to study whether private car storage is best uses of public space advances — at a price.

DOT's redesign of the 79th Street rotunda omits protection for people attempting to access the country's most popular bike path. Image: DOT

Manhattan Board Rejects DOT Rotunda Plan

By Eve Kessler | Jun 5, 2019 | 4 Comments

The Department of Transportation must go back to the drawing board with its controversial $200-million redesign of the 79th Street rotunda because the current proposal remains unsafe for cyclists, a Manhattan community board voted on Tuesday night. Community Board 7 resolved Tuesday night to “disapprove” of DOT’s plan for the Robert Moses-built, 70-year-old structure that […]

Op-ed: DOT Rebuffs Community on Riverside Park Rotunda Traffic Safety

By Mark Gorton | May 17, 2019 | 4 Comments

Last October, the Department of Transportation presented to Community Board 7 a $150- to 200-million plan to renovate the Rotunda at West 79th Street in Riverside Park. The Rotunda is topped by a traffic circle that cyclists use to get to the Hudson River Greenway, the busiest bike route in the country. For years, cyclists […]

Why did it take three years for this happy scene? Because the city is too focused on big-ticket items to work about a single bike corral on a Brooklyn street. Photo: Ben Fried

New Group Seeks to Empower Neighborhoods to Handle the Big Little Things

By Streetsblog | Apr 11, 2019 | 4 Comments

The Neighborhood Empowerment Project is dedicated to getting city agencies to defer the small stuff to locals.