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Eyes on the Street: Why Pedestrian Islands Belong at More NYC Intersections

By Stephen Miller | Oct 23, 2014 | 25 Comments

Here’s a reminder of why the city can’t roll out street design changes fast enough. Last night, a driver turning left through the crosswalk from West 97th Street to West End Avenue struck a bollard on a pedestrian island that had been installed just days before. According to West Side Rag, the woman told police that she did […]

Eyes on the Street: West End Avenue Gets Its Road Diet

By Stephen Miller | Oct 16, 2014 | 21 Comments

After Cooper Stock and Jean Chambers were killed in West End Avenue crosswalks by turning drivers earlier this year, DOT unveiled a 35-block road diet for the dangerous Upper West Side street. Now, the plan is on the ground, and pedestrian islands are set to be installed within a month. The redesign is a standard […]

Eyes on the Street: DOT Breaks Out the Terracotta for Third Ave Bus Lane

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2014 | 7 Comments

Work is underway on updates to the Third Avenue bus lane. Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson and reader David Dartley tweeted these shots of what will eventually be an offset lane from 36th to 55th Street, a configuration designed to speed bus travel by shifting parking and loading to the curb [PDF]. The Third Avenue bus lane dates […]

Eyes on the Street: The Evolution of the Bergen Street Protected Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Oct 1, 2014 | 31 Comments

What began as an ad hoc fix for a bike lane chronically clogged by cars has become permanent after DOT installed a block-long barrier on the Bergen Street bike lane in front of the 78th Precinct in Prospect Heights. It started more than two years ago when Ian Dutton moved some leftover ConEd cones a […]

Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Aftermath at 4th Ave and Degraw

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2014 | 5 Comments

Reader Mike Donohue sends this eyewitness account of a driver who fled the scene of a crash in Park Slope Sunday morning. At about 9:45 a.m., Donohue was on his bike, stopped at a red light on Degraw Street at Fourth Avenue. When the light turned green for traffic on Degraw, a driver heading north on […]

Eyes on the Street: Safer Streets Come to Jackson Heights

By Stephen Miller | Sep 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

In June, Queens Community Board 3 overwhelmingly supported two traffic safety projects: a neighborhood Slow Zone for part of Jackson Heights and new pedestrian islands on Northern Boulevard. Now those improvements plus multiple Safe Routes to School projects are being installed. Clarence Eckerson Jr. snapped some photos earlier this week as DOT crews poured concrete […]

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