Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Yarn by the Meter

By Brad Aaron | | 6 Comments
The Montague Street Business Improvement District along with DOT’s Urban Art Program today unveiled the "69 Meters" public art project. Hand-knitted cozies will adorn all the street’s parking meters through mid-June. Says the BID: 69 Meters is a collaboration between [textile artist Magda] Sayeg -– the founder of Knitta Please, the guerilla knitting collective -– […]

Eyes on the Street: Madison Square Ped Space Invaded

By Brad Aaron | | 22 Comments
"Have placard-bearing drivers begun their own reclaiming of reclaimed public space?" That is the question posed by Streetsblogger ddartley, who last week snapped these photos of a city government vehicle parked in the new Madison Square pedestrian plaza. He got just close enough to spot the placard behind the windshield when: This guy wearing some […]

Eyes on the Street: Holland on the Hudson

By Brad Aaron | | 5 Comments
Streetsblog San Francisco’s Bryan Goebel attended the NY400 event yesterday, where Dutch Cabinet Minister Frans Timmermans presented Deputy Mayor Robert C. Lieber and NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta with 200 orange commuter bikes as part of a year-long commemoration of "four hundred years of friendship between the Netherlands and the City of New York." […]

Eyes on the Street: Cyclist Hit, Injured in Midtown

By Brad Aaron | | 22 Comments
Streetsblog San Francisco’s Bryan Goebel, blogging from New York this week, came upon the scene of a driver-cyclist collision in Midtown Manhattan at around 1:30 this afternoon. "The bicyclist — according to one witness — was traveling northbound on Eighth Avenue past 43rd in the left lane and a delivery van pulled out from the […]
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