Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Braving Double-Parked Parents, MS 51 Students Bike to School in Droves

By Noah Kazis | May 23, 2012 | 15 Comments

Based on this picture of rows of temporary bike racks, all filled, it looks like MS 51’s Bike-To-School Day was a big hit (photo via Lara Lebeiko of Bicycle Habitat, which provided volunteers for the event). Escorted rides, or “bike buses,” took students from Sunset Park, Carroll Gardens and Windsor Terrace/Kensington to the Park Slope […]

Eyes on the Street: Eighth Avenue Protected Bike Lane Heads North

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2012 | 14 Comments

Reader Niles Ray sends in this bird’s-eye view of bike lane construction on Eighth Avenue at 37th Street. The extension of protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues was proposed by DOT last year, and won subsequent community board approval. The lanes and pedestrian islands will provide safer passage for cyclists and pedestrians north […]

Eyes on the Street: Upper West Side Crash Leaves Vehicle Overturned

By Brad Aaron | May 4, 2012 | 5 Comments

Reader Daniel Green sends in this picture of a Thursday afternoon crash at Broadway and W. 77th Street. According to FDNY, the crash occurred at approximately 1:21 p.m. One person was treated for injuries and released, while a second was hospitalized at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, a spokesperson said. FDNY did not know if bystanders were among […]

Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets, May Day Edition

By Noah Kazis | May 2, 2012 | 4 Comments

New Yorkers got an unusual taste of what car-free streets feel like yesterday, thanks to the combination of Occupy Wall Street’s May Day march and the New York Police Department. To mark the labor movement holiday, thousands of people took to the streets of Lower Manhattan to protest economic inequality. According to the New York […]

Eyes on the Street: DOT Lays Foundations for Safer First Avenue

By Ben Fried | Apr 30, 2012 | 9 Comments

Looks like the concrete has been poured for new pedestrian refuges on First Avenue in the 60s. Courtesy of Flickr user TNoble2008, who reports that the construction work extends up to 70th Street, here are some more shots of the progress on the Upper East Side’s first protected bike lane. Apparently the markings and refuges […]

Eyes on the Street: Neighbors Get Better Bike Lane

By Noah Kazis | Apr 24, 2012 | 22 Comments

Somehow we doubt it’s going to make Iris Weinshall, Norm Steisel and Louise Hainline feel any better (what with the threat of another lawsuit), but construction is now underway on pedestrian islands along the Prospect Park West bike lane. Once complete, the islands will provide easier crossings for pedestrians — who have already benefited from shorter […]

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