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And at night, it glows: Journal Square's new Oonee pod. Photo: Oonee

Wednesday’s Headlines: PATH Meets Pod Edition

By Eve Kessler | Sep 4, 2019 | 14 Comments

Jersey PATH commuters get a leg up on their New York counterparts — and everyone covers the charges against a cyclist's killer. For more headlines, click the link above.

Yes, it's scary: A pedestrian peers at the Central Park intersection where a cyclist collided with a pedestrian Monday afternoon. Photo: Eve Kessler

Ex-Parks Commissioner: I Won’t Bike in Central Park Anymore

By Eve Kessler | Sep 2, 2019 | 113 Comments

A delivery man on a e-bike wiped out after striking a pedestrian at a dangerous intersection. What's the city going to do about it?

Jane Jacobs holding up petitions. No, Arthur Schwartz, your fight against the 14th Street Busway is the antithesis of her sallies against Robert Moses's highways. Image: Wikimedia

Thursday’s Headlines: Jane Jacobs Is Rolling in Her Grave Edition

By Eve Kessler | Aug 15, 2019 | 7 Comments

Another day, another act in the continuing drama of the career of NIMBY advocate Arthur Schwartz. Plus all the other news, just by clicking the headline above.

A rendering from the city's East Side Coastal Resiliency plan shows the East River waterfront.

Lower East Side ‘Resiliency’ Plan Hits New Potholes

By Eve Kessler | Jul 23, 2019 | 11 Comments

Electeds, residents demand independent review of proposal that digs up a park and endangers cyclists while sparing a highway.

A police placard. Placards are routinely abused by NYPD officers, who use them to park their personal vehicles illegally near their jobs at precints.

Entitled Cops’ Car-Culture ‘Lifestyle’ on Display in Brooklyn

By Eve Kessler | Jul 19, 2019 | 24 Comments

A note from the 68th Precinct excuses illegal parking because "public transportation [is] not a feasible option for their lifestyle."

A cyclist going downhill on the Hudson Greenway bike bypass confronts a driver on a Parks Department-only path at 79th Street. The offending dumpster, which apparently had already been moved out of the path, is on the right. Photo: Ken Coughlin

Eyes on the Street: Fresh Hazards for Riverside Park Bike Bypass

By Eve Kessler and Vivian Lipson | Jul 15, 2019 | 22 Comments

The Parks Department is protecting pedestrians by sending cyclists up and down a steep, confusing path — and watch out for that Dumpster!

Manhattan Beep Stalls Plans for Lower East Side ‘Resiliency’ Project

By Eve Kessler | Jul 10, 2019 | 7 Comments

Locals are concerned, among other things, about its effect on a riverside bike path.

A thousand cyclists lay down with their bikes in Washington Square Park in order to protest the traffic violence that has killed 15 cyclists so far this year.

Washington Square Park Die-In: Team Coverage

By Eve Kessler, Dave Colon and Julianne Cuba | Jul 9, 2019 | 35 Comments

Streetsblog reporters bring you pictures and commentary from the TransAlt mass action.

Earlier this year, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill appeared rattled when repeatedly questioned about an officer who used deadly force with his squad car to stop a cyclist (that's his replacement, Dermot Shea, to the Commish's left). Photo: Mayor's Office

O’Neill: Cops Can Use Deadly Force Against Cyclists

By Eve Kessler | Jul 8, 2019 | 109 Comments

A prickly Commissioner James O'Neill defends the cop who used a police SUV to cut off a cyclist in Manhattan.

The city is being sued to block a protected bike lane on Central Park West — where Madison Lyden was killed last year. Photo: David Meyer

CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)

By Eve Kessler | Jun 12, 2019 | 48 Comments

It’s a pretty sizable win in the ongoing war against cars.

DOT's redesign of the 79th Street rotunda omits protection for people attempting to access the country's most popular bike path. Image: DOT

Manhattan Board Rejects DOT Rotunda Plan

By Eve Kessler | Jun 5, 2019 | 4 Comments

The Department of Transportation must go back to the drawing board with its controversial $200-million redesign of the 79th Street rotunda because the current proposal remains unsafe for cyclists, a Manhattan community board voted on Tuesday night. Community Board 7 resolved Tuesday night to “disapprove” of DOT’s plan for the Robert Moses-built, 70-year-old structure that […]

The painted right-turn lane DOT installed after the death of three-year-old Emur Shavkator.

DOT Promises Traffic Light at Fatal Brooklyn Intersection

By Eve Kessler | Jun 5, 2019 | 28 Comments

But Council Member Mark Treyger says he's still "furious" at the department.

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