Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Labor Day Bonus Pic: Hudson River Greenway Bollard at Work

By Ben Fried | Sep 3, 2010 | 20 Comments

Via Gothamist — check out this bollard on the Hudson River Greenway at work. One of the strange and dangerous things about the greenway is that car traffic crosses the car-free path at several points. Twice in 2006, motorists killed people using the greenway. On December 1, 2006, cyclist Eric Ng was run down by […]

Eyes on the Street: Uprooted CityRack

By Ben Fried | Sep 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

A tipster sends this picture of one of the city’s new bike racks that, someway, somehow, got wrenched out of the pavement. We’re told that the sidewalk at Fulton Street and Rockwell Place in Brooklyn had a big chunk missing where the bike rack would have been. After this bike rack design won a 2008 […]

Eyes on the Street: Union Square’s Public Space Makeover Underway

By Ben Fried | Sep 1, 2010 | 17 Comments

Reader Holly Hudson sends this picture of the north side of Union Square earlier today. Orange construction barrels are lined up here and around the corner on Broadway, as crews get ready to add new pedestrian spaces and extend Broadway’s protected bike lane, which will run against the flow of traffic on this particular block. […]

Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Discovered on Columbus Ave

By Ben Fried | Aug 23, 2010 | 10 Comments

Felix Morales tries out the freshly painted lane on his scooter. Photo: Ken Coughlin After a lot of great advocacy from the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance and a down-to-the-wire vote at Community Board 7 this spring, DOT crews are laying down the first on-street protected bikeway above 34th 59th Street, on Columbus Avenue between […]

Eyes on the Street: Blast of Thermoplast on Flushing

By Ben Fried | Jul 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

John Del Signore at Gothamist got this shot of Flushing Avenue this morning. Looks like phase one of the Flushing bikeway is getting striped, creating a continuous link between North Brooklyn and the Manhattan Bridge. A refresher: The two-way, jersey barrier-separated path on Williamsburg Street West will extend to Washington Avenue on the north side […]

Eyes on the Street: Sidewalk Sinkhole in Sunset Park

By Ben Fried | Jul 14, 2010 | 4 Comments

A reader sent in these photos of a sidewalk cave-in next to the office of Assembly member Felix W. Ortiz, on Fourth Avenue and 55th Street in Sunset Park: Over the weekend, a bunch of neighbors called in the ominous crack in the sidewalk to 311 (resulting in tape! And a safety horse!), and this […]

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