Drivers Enjoy Special New Standing Zone
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Fresh tipster shots from Prince Street. E-mail subject line: "Happy ‘Bike to Work’ Day." @ Greene @ Broadway
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Eyes on the Street: Fresh Paint on Prince
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A tipster sends this shot from earlier today of a newly-painted bike lane on Prince Street. After the jump, DOT bike program coordinator Josh Benson answers a question from a City Room reader about painted lanes.
Cleveland Indians Ace Cliff Lee: The Southpaw Straphanger
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Cliff Lee’s $4 million arm hangs from a subway strap. With a 6-0 won-loss record and a 0.81 earned run average, Cleveland Indians southpaw Cliff Lee is, for the moment, the hottest pitcher in Major League Baseball. His delivery is so smooth, so perfect looking, it’s hard not to think Sandy Koufax. Last Wednesday, Streetsblog […]
Eyes on the Street: A Death-Defying Walk to Prospect Park
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The bloggers at Hawthorne Street put together this dandy little short — you could even call it a Streetfilm — to illustrate the dangers of crossing Ocean Avenue at the southeast entrance to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Cars turning onto Ocean from Parkside Avenue pose a constant threat to people in the crosswalk, even while […]
Eyes on the Street: T.A. Rings in Bike Month
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L-R: DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation Alternatives Director Paul Steely White and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe at this morning’s Bike Month NYC event on 9th Avenue. Benepe with White and Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton. Photos: Will Sherman/Transportation Alternatives
Eyes on the Street… All of Them
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NYC Blog directs our attention to the map above, which depicts every street in the continental U.S. Map creator Ben Fry (no relation) posts a larger version on his site, and explains it like so: All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other […]