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Eyes on the Street: The Case of the Missing Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Jun 10, 2015 | 34 Comments

The streets have been repaved. Lane striping, crosswalks, and stop bars have been added back. But there’s something missing from two streets in DOT’s bike network: bike lanes. In Williamsburg, Driggs Avenue has been repaved — but you would never know it’s a key bike connection from the Williamsburg Bridge. The street has all its stripes back except […]

Upper Manhattan’s First Protected Bike Lane Goes Green [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Jun 1, 2015 | 6 Comments

Update: The Manhattan Community Board 12 transportation committee will consider an agenda item tonight that would call on DOT to remove the Fort George Hill bike lane. Yes, really. The meeting will be held at the Isabella Geriatric Center, 515 Audobon Avenue, at 7 p.m. Here are more photos from reader Jonathan Rabinowitz of Upper […]

Eyes on the Street: This Year’s First “Street Seats” Have Begun to Sprout

By Stephen Miller | May 29, 2015 | 18 Comments

It’s Street Seats season — the time of year when curbside seating replaces parking to reclaim some space for people, at least for the summer. Street Seats are installed by DOT. The seats, which fold up at night, are maintained by an adjacent sponsoring business and are open to the public. DOT received 22 applications for Street Seats […]

Eyes on the Street: A Buffer for (Some of) the Sixth Avenue Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | May 8, 2015 | 2 Comments

Parts of the notoriously skinny Sixth Avenue bike lane are about to get slightly less cramped. DOT is narrowing the car lanes on the newly-repaved avenue to make room for buffers on the bike lane from Christopher Street to W. 14th Street. While the buffers are a welcome upgrade, they’re no long-term fix for one of the city’s most intimidating […]

Eyes on the Street: State DOT Squeezes Van Cortlandt Park Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2015 | 11 Comments

The walls are closing in on people who walk or bike on the Van Cortlandt Park greenway in the Bronx. A state Department of Transportation highway construction project has narrowed the shared bicycle and pedestrian path to just four feet, while leaving adjacent car lanes and a golf cart path almost entirely untouched. The cause of the greenway pinch […]

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 […]

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