Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Pedestrian Islands Arrive on Amsterdam Ave

By David Meyer | Aug 4, 2016 | 33 Comments

DOT has finished striping the protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue between 72nd Street and 110th Street, and now it’s moving on to the concrete. A reader sent in this photo of a brand new pedestrian island, more of which will be going in on the north side of intersections along the corridor. The nine-foot-wide raised concrete islands […]

Eyes on the Street: The Emergent Sixth Avenue Bikeway

By Brad Aaron | Jul 19, 2016 | 13 Comments

6th Ave finally got its bike lane! #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/5yYF9SaxkL — Jesse Chan-Norris (@jcn) July 19, 2016 Work has started on the Sixth Avenue bikeway. The pic in the above tweet is at Sixth and 18th Street. The photo below, sent to us by a reader, was taken at 16th Street. Sixth Avenue is one of the […]

Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalk, Shorter Crossing at Riverside and 116th

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2016 | 14 Comments

A tipster sent this photo of the sidewalk expansion underway at the corner of Riverside Drive and W. 116th Street in Manhattan. (It’s one of the elements in a DOT safety plan for Riverside that survived after the agency watered down the project at the behest of Community Board 9.) Once the concrete is poured, the distance to walk […]

Eyes on the Street: Cops With Placards Turn Ninth Avenue Into Parking Lot

By Brad Aaron | Jun 14, 2016 | 11 Comments

Illegally converting left-turn lane for placard parking creates a dangerous hooking situation for cyclists @NYC_DOT pic.twitter.com/7PnlbsbrPw — placard corruption (@placardabuse) June 14, 2016 Well, this is a pretty brazen display of entitlement from the placarded class. Parking watchdog @placardabuse tweeted these photos of private vehicles parked in a turn lane on Ninth Avenue at 34th […]

Eyes on the Street: A Proper Bike Lane on Shore Boulevard

By David Meyer | Jun 8, 2016 | 6 Comments

The new two-way bike lane on Shore Boulevard in Astoria is rounding into form and just needs some finishing touches from DOT. With the bike lane, which replaced the northbound car lane on Shore Boulevard, pedestrians and cyclists will no longer have to awkwardly share the asphalt path inside the edge of Astoria Park, and crossings between the park […]

Eyes on the Street: First Signs of Amsterdam Avenue’s Protected Bike Lane

By David Meyer | May 20, 2016 | 17 Comments

Exciting news to conclude this Bike to Work Day: NYC DOT has striped 24 blocks of the Amsterdam Avenue protected bike lane, from 72nd Street to 96th Street. Once it’s finished, the segment DOT is building this year will run up to 110th Street. It’s a much-needed and long-desired northbound complement to the southbound protected lane on […]

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