Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 1, 2006 | 4 Comments

Saturday, July 29, 2006, at the Jesup Avenue bridge over the Cross Bronx "Expressway." I called 311 to get the city to tow that abandoned car away, but the operator needed an address or an intersection to locate this vehicle. An address would be a stretch, and the computer didn’t accept "Jesup Avenue and the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’" as a […]

We’re in Good Hands With Allstate

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 28, 2006 | No Comments

Above: A message from Allstate, the company that recently stopped renewing New York City home insurance policies due to the increasing risk of global warming-induced hurricanes. Spotted on Broadway near 9th Street.

Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 25, 2006 | 7 Comments

A Streetsblog tipster writes in with a nice slice-of-life dispatch: I was on North 7th street in Williamsburg this morning and I passed a young woman locking up her bike in front of a residential building. There were a handful of old-timers in front of their building complaining about the bikes — "pretty soon there’ll […]

Eyes on the Street: Weekend Edition

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 21, 2006 | 5 Comments

I recently took this boat, a water taxi, from Red Hook to South Street Seaport. Landing at the Seaport after having just been in Red Hook about five minutes earlier gives one an odd supernatural sense of having been teleported.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2006 | 6 Comments

Ozone Alert in New York City: We warn children, the elderly and people with heart and lung conditions to keep off of city streets until air quality has improved. We suggest that motorists might use mass transit. Ozone Alert in Italy, Germany, and other European Union cities: They ban cars, trucks and scooters from city […]

Protecting Public Space by Banishing People

By Jeff | Jul 12, 2006 | 1 Comment

Here is the latest in Jeff Zupan’s photo series on security barricades and their effect on New York City street life: Penned-in pedestrians on Wall Street across from the New York Stock Exchange(Photo: Jeff Zupan)

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