Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenways

Eastern Queens Advocates Hope to Turn “Motor Parkway” Into Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2014 | 5 Comments

Union Turnpike, running 10 miles through the midsection of Queens and across the border to Nassau County, is one of the borough’s most unsafe places to walk or bike. Now, a group of eastern Queens residents is looking to extend an existing walking and biking path through state- and city-owned property parallel to the multi-lane road. […]

Next Year, Peds and Cyclists Won’t Have to Fight for Scraps on Pulaski Bridge

By Stephen Miller | Dec 19, 2013 | 19 Comments

By this time next year, people walking and biking across the Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens won’t have to share a single narrow path. With a new, two-way protected bike lane spanning the bridge, cyclists will have a safe route and pedestrians will have the existing 8.5-foot wide pathway exclusively for walking. No more […]

DOT Plans Road Diet and Bikeway Upgrade on Deadly Section of Kent Avenue

By Stephen Miller | Dec 18, 2013 | 18 Comments

Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 1’s transportation committee unanimously recommended the board support a DOT project [PDF] to calm traffic on a deadly stretch of Kent Avenue between Clymer Street and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The project also upgrades a link in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway to a two-way protected bike lane. Last March, hit-and-run driver Julio Acevedo, […]

Mapping Out a Route for the Hudson River Greenway in the Bronx

By Stephen Miller | Dec 5, 2013 | 38 Comments

In 1991, Governor Mario Cuomo signed the Hudson River Valley Greenway Act, setting in motion the design and construction of a continuous walking and biking route along the river, from Manhattan to Saratoga County. More than two decades later, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council — the NYC-area regional planning agency — has come up with […]

Hudson River Greenway Detour, Set to End This Week, Extended Until March

By Stephen Miller | Dec 5, 2013 | 9 Comments

Since May, Hudson River Greenway users have been detoured from the waterside route between 133rd and 135th Streets to 12th Avenue, which is often full of trucks unloading at the Fairway supermarket. The closure, which signs on the greenway said would end at the end of last month, has been extended through the end of February […]

Eyes on the Street: Bronx River Greenway Access Streets Get Upgrades

By Stephen Miller | Nov 1, 2013 | 3 Comments

The Bronx River Greenway has given many South Bronx residents a place to feel comfortable biking, but the streets nearby are often filled with speeding drivers navigating sometimes-confusing intersections. A project adding bike lanes, curb extensions, and lane striping aimed to fix that — and since the end of the summer residents have seen some […]

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