Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Transit Workers on Parade

By Brad Aaron | May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

The NYC Transit Pipe and Drums Corps marched in the Inwood annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday, on a route that followed Broadway from 200th Street almost into the Bronx before taking Seaman Avenue, where the above photo was taken, to Inwood Hill Park for a wreath-laying ceremony honoring America’s war dead. A bike-laned residential […]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

By Aaron Donovan | May 25, 2007 | 2 Comments

Broad Street looking north from Exchange Place Remove cars from a New York City street, even just for security reasons, and civil society flourishes in their place. On Broad Steet traffic has been restricted in front of the New York Stock Exchange since September 11, 2001. Special pavement, tables, chairs and benches have turned a dull and commonplace […]

Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue Street Fair

By Aaron Naparstek | May 21, 2007 | 1 Comment

As Robert Guskind at Gowanus Lounge writes, "We like the Fifth Avenue Fair because, while you can score tube socks and sunglasses, most of the local businesses come out and represent." Check out his photo set on Flickr.

Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941

By Aaron Naparstek | May 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

This striking color photograph was snapped on Broome Street near Baruch Place (a street that vanished beneath the Bernard Baruch housing project) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, September 27, 1941. The photo is part of the Charles W. Cushman collection at Indiana University. A tip of the hat to Kevin Walsh’s outstanding Forgotten […]

Eyes on the Street: Umbrella/Sombrilla in Inwood

By Brad Aaron | May 10, 2007 | No Comments

City Council Member Robert Jackson, foreground, participates in the "Umbrella/Sombrilla" celebration, held in Inwood last Sunday. The Dyckman Street festival involved neighborhood residents simultaneously waving and twirling dozens of umbrellas to symbolize the birth of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, an umbrella organization (see?) founded to promote uptown art and artists. Umbrella/Sombrilla kicks off the […]

Eyes on the Street: Tillary Street Bike Lane Parking Lot

By Jason Varone | May 9, 2007 | 5 Comments

Ian Dutton, organizer of the Houston Street bike safety initiative, made this brief StreetFilm while riding in the physically-separated bike lane on Tillary Street approaching the Brooklyn Bridge. On his YouTube page, Dutton writes, "I was on my way from SoHo to Park Slope when I saw a most remarkable assemblage of press vehicles in […]

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