Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

This is all you need to park illegally near the Brooklyn tow pound. Photo: Mars van Grunsven

Of All the Places: Placard Perps Park Wherever they Want Near the Tow Pound

By Mars van Grunsven | May 3, 2021 | No Comments

Who's towing the towers? Answer: no one.

Family biking in Hoboken. Photo: City of Hoboken

EYES ON THE STREET: How Hoboken Has Eliminated Traffic Deaths

By Eve Kessler | Apr 6, 2021 | No Comments

The Mile Square City shows what can be accomplished when a municipality really focuses on the zero of Vision Zero — it has recorded no traffic fatalities for three straight years.

The Main Street busway begins today! Photo: Julianne Cuba

Eyes On The Street: The Flushing Busway is Finally in Effect

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 19, 2021 | No Comments

Seven months after Mayor de Blasio first announced it, after months of pushback and even a court case, the city's long-stalled Main Street busway finally started rolling on Tuesday.

The money shot. The conversion of the James Farley Building into the Moynihan Train Hall cost $1.6 billion — and resulted in zero public seating. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Eyes on the Street: All Rise for the New Moynihan Train Hall (Because You Can’t SIT There!)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 3, 2021 | No Comments

And there are other shortcomings, too.

The Sixth Avenue protected bike lane, blocked by car after car on Nov. 5.

EYES ON THE STREET: Broken Bike-Lane Enforcement on Sixth Avenue

By Jeff Novich | Nov 6, 2020 | No Comments

For a cyclist forced into traffic, Dylan said it all in "Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues": "The cops don't need you and, man, they expect the same."

Bogie and Hepburn, together again on W. 103rd St. Photo: Lisa Orman

Seeing the Future: W. 103rd Street Transformed in Pilot Open Space Project

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 26, 2020 | No Comments

Here's looking at you, 103rd St.

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