Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Queens Crossing Guards Improvise Street Safety Fixes

By Ben Fried | Jan 11, 2011 | 4 Comments

While Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is out to tear up pedestrian refuges on a dangerous stretch of Fort Hamilton Parkway, over in Queens, local street safety experts are improvising their own traffic-calming measures. Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson took these pictures of crossing guards using cones as makeshift safety improvements outside two Jackson Heights schools. The […]

Eyes on the Street: Upper Manhattan Gets First Taste of Protected Cycling

By Noah Kazis | Dec 8, 2010 | 15 Comments

DOT’s planned safety improvements for the intersection of St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues are currently being installed, as shown in pictures snapped by Streetsblog reader BicyclesOnly. Major features include shorter crosswalks, additional pedestrian space, and Upper Manhattan’s first segment of physically-protected bike lane. Up to now, the intersection has been a dangerous one. According to a […]

Eyes on the Street: A Bike-Friendly Approach to the Q’Boro

By Ben Fried | Nov 12, 2010 | 18 Comments

We’ve got another highlight from 2010 construction season to share with you. A two-way, protected approach to the Queens side of the Queensboro Bridge bike-ped path has been paved, striped and open for business since the end of October. Clarence took these photos of the new approach, part of a package of bicycle and pedestrian […]

Eyes on the Street: Motorist Wrecks Brooklyn Monument to Slain Veterans

By Ben Fried | Oct 12, 2010 | 9 Comments

A reader alerted us to this video taken just before midnight yesterday. The scene is at Bartel Pritchard Square, the traffic circle in Brooklyn where Prospect Park West meets 15th Street and Prospect Park Southwest. Apparently the driver of this black BMW was proceeding south on PPW carelessly enough not to notice the trees, benches, […]

Eyes on the Street: Union Square Chairs, Slow Speed Zones, PS 36’s Batcave

By Ben Fried | Sep 16, 2010 | 8 Comments

Construction season seems to be peaking with a lot of changes underway on the streets. Here’s a sample of what readers have posted to the Streetsblog Flickr pool and sent to our tips account during the past week, starting with some scenes from Union Square’s public space makeover and the extension of Broadway’s “green ribbon.”

Eyes on the Street: 28th Precinct Loves the St. Nicholas Ave Bike Lane

By Noah Kazis | Sep 8, 2010 | 34 Comments

If you get around on a bicycle in Upper Manhattan, the St. Nicholas Avenue bike lanes are essential. They’re the only on-street lanes in the borough between 120th Street and 160th Street. Many cyclists don’t even bother with the lanes, though, because they’re routinely filled with parked cars. Normally one might ask the NYPD to […]

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