Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about S#!t We Put Up With Every F@&%ing Day

Not only was the center stripe faded, but pedestrian and biker silhouettes had faded from each side of the path. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

NYPD Has Found Yet Another Way to Completely Screw Up the Brooklyn Bridge Footpath

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 30, 2019 | 14 Comments

Now the NYPD is deploying police vehicles in an offset pattern that forces cyclists into the path of pedestrians and pedestrians into the path of cyclists. Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one? (NYPD declined to comment.)

S#!t We Put Up With Every F@&%ing Day: What’s With All These Crazy Buses?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 17, 2019 | 8 Comments

The morning crapshoot on Flushing Avenue is exacerbated by illegally parked buses.

The mayor calls this a protected bike lane. Do you? Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

FACT CHECK: City Did Not Build 20.9 Miles of ‘Protected’ Bike Lanes This Year

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 20, 2018 | 19 Comments

The Department of Transportation said it uses a definition of "protected bike lane" that allows a route to be called "protected" even if there is no physical barrier.

Thumbtacks spotted in the 43rd Avenue protected bike lane. Photo: Office of Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer

NY Police Chief: Sunnyside Bike Lane Terror Attack Was ‘Particularly Nasty’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 5, 2018 | 25 Comments

Neither NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill nor Mayor de Blasio called last week's thumb tack assault an act of "terror," but both are taking it seriously.

A common scene in Times Square — pedestrians crammed into tight space, while drivers rule the road. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Times Square is Still A Mammoth S#!+show — But NYC Can Learn from London

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 29, 2018 | 5 Comments

Streetfilms takes you inside the belly of the beast.

Business as usual on traffic-choked Austin Street in Forest Hills. Photo: Laura A. Shepard

City Ignores West Side Request for Loading Zones — Putting Parking Over Safety

By David Meyer | Nov 27, 2018 | 11 Comments

A Manhattan community board's request for dedicated loading zones along Central Park West and West End Avenue has received silence from the de Blasio administration.

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