Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: U-Perpendicular-Park-in-the-Bike-Lane

By Ben Fried | Apr 5, 2010 | 5 Comments

Reader Liam Quigley of Cyclosity fame sends this shot of the Grand Street bike lane on Saturday evening. He tells us the production company crew unloading this box truck between Bowery and Elizabeth stayed long enough to force at least five cyclists to ride up on the sidewalk and three others to ride into car […]

Eyes on the Street: “RUDE 1” Jumps the Curb on East 12th Street

By Ben Fried | Apr 2, 2010 | 2 Comments

Photo: JRomanceOnline Via EVGrieve, this was scene on East 12th Street near First Avenue on Wednesday evening. A crew of local bloggers and tweeters have crowdsourced some of the details about what happened. Five people were hurt, luckily none seriously, according to EVGrieve’s email tipster. Neighborhood blogger Chris O’Leary found out from an officer at […]

Eyes on the Street: NYPD Chivalry Is Dead on 34th Street

By Noah Kazis | Mar 12, 2010 | 38 Comments

The officers who parked here apparently aren’t the type to help old ladies cross the street. Photo: ddartley/Flickr Thanks to tipster ddartley for the latest chapter in NYPD’s ongoing mistreatment of bus riders on 34th Street. Yesterday, eight cruisers from northern Queens (precincts 110, 111, 112, 114 and 115) sat parked in the bus lane […]

Eyes on the Street: Wall-to-Wall Press Coverage of Tillary Street Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2010 | 23 Comments

A reader sent in these photos from a media scrum last Friday evening in the Tillary Street bike lane in Downtown Brooklyn. Notice how the press vehicles have completely blocked the two-way protected lane, forcing cyclists onto the other side of the barrier.

Eyes on the Street: Hey Pal, Where’s the Fire?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 7, 2010 | 1 Comment

We’re accustomed to the dangerous disrespect shown by NYPD to non-driving commuters, but a tip we received yesterday shows that cops haven’t cornered the market on civil servants putting lives at risk. Our reader reports from Union and Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn: Today, at this known traffic spillover point, the operator of this FDNY vehicle […]

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