Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Crossing Guard Clamps Down on Crosswalk-Nudgers

By Brad Aaron | Dec 10, 2009 | 17 Comments

This vid from BicyclesOnly shows a school crossing guard, at Madison Ave. and 96th St., who takes her job seriously. Whenever the light on Madison turned green, BO writes, she entered the intersection to assert the rights of those passing through on foot. Good thing, too. Every single time there were motorists that clearly intended […]

Eyes on the Street: Placard Abuse, From Sea to Shining Sea

By Brad Aaron | Dec 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

We got a tip yesterday about an errant driver hogging a curbside spot in a residential area: So, outside my house is a street with two hour parking. Today a Jaguar with dealer plates was parked there all day. When I checked, it was because there was an FD placard on the car. No news […]

Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalks, Better Bike Lanes, Safer Streets

By Ben Fried | Nov 23, 2009 | 13 Comments

Clarence Eckerson sends these shots of DOT street safety improvements taken on a recent ride near the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. Above is the newly traffic-calmed intersection of Joralemon and Hicks — part of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project — which now sports two sidewalk extensions. (According to the Post, a third corner was […]

Eyes on the Street: Access Denied

By Brad Aaron | Nov 12, 2009 | 28 Comments

Photo: Gothamist Here’s another case of dangerously uncivil servitude, via Gothamist’s John Del Signore, who came upon an Access-A-Ride driver parked in the elevated Sands Street bike lane. It’s no surprise that Del Signore’s complaint to the driver was answered with a shrug (or, more accurately, a "What’s the big deal? Just go around."). But […]

Eyes on the Street: You Don’t Belong in the Bike Lane, Sir

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2009 | 25 Comments

A reader sends this photo of a huge rig using Kent Avenue’s new protected bike path as its own, highly illegal shortcut. Our tipster says the trucker was bearing down on him at a rapid clip for several blocks before slowing down enough to hear an inquiry through the window: "What do you think you’re […]

Eyes on the Street: Disrespect, and Defiance, at the Bus Stop

By Brad Aaron | Nov 2, 2009 | 11 Comments

This was the scene in Washington Heights Friday evening, after this guy, along with two others, parked their gigantic rental truck directly in front of a trio of elderly people waiting for the M4 at W. 187th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. Rather than sit passively with the spewing behemoth a few feet from their […]

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