Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

By Jason Varone | Mar 28, 2007 | 12 Comments

A tipster spotted this Parks Department garbage truck doing its morning rounds on the sidewalk at Plaza Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, near the Grand Army Plaza subway stop in Brooklyn today. "As far as I can tell," he writes, "the sole reason for it is so the workers don’t have to move the trash cans […]

Eyes on the Street: Randall’s Island

By Aaron Donovan | Mar 23, 2007 | 6 Comments

Emergency Rally for Pedestrian Safety: Sunday, March 4, 3pm:

By Jason Varone | Mar 2, 2007 | 11 Comments

Demand that Mayor Bloomberg take action (or, at the very least, that he say something) before another New Yorker is unnecessarily run over and killed by a motor vehicle. Emergency Rally for Pedestrian Safety Sunday, March 4th 3 pm City Hall Steps Someone is killed by a vehicle almost every other day in New York […]

Quick, Someone Get Me a Shovel

By Biker H | Feb 20, 2007 | 8 Comments

Last week, we saw the sorry condition of the new on-street bike route in Times Square and thought to ourselves how much better things would be if only bikes had some truly protected turf in the Crossroads of the World. Alas, just a half-mile south, our idealistic thoughts were quashed by this depressing visage: Here […]

The Case of the Disappearing Sharrows

By Biker H | Feb 13, 2007 | 5 Comments

Less than three months after they appeared on Seventh Avenue in Times Square, some of New York City’s first sharrows are well on their way to disappearing. And so you have to wonder: Can the city’s commitment to 200 miles of new bike lanes in three years be meaningful if this is their condition […]

Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 2, 2007 | 9 Comments

The BQE, as seen from Lorimer Street. All this talk about Robert Moses lately leads one to think about the Freeway Revolt.

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