Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Central Park

Parks Dept: Central Park Cyclists Must Stop at Traffic Signals

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 12, 2007 | 58 Comments

In Central Park the police will, supposedly, be handing out traffic tickets to cyclists who ride through red lights, even during car-free hours. Last year around this time, the police were running a bicyclist dragnet on Central Park’s East Drive at about 98th Street (which strikes us as kind of incredible given the lack of […]

Central Park Cyclist in Serious Condition

By Aaron Donovan | Dec 14, 2006 | 25 Comments

Channel 7 has the story of a woman hit by a car in Central Park last night. (By the way, buy a Toyota!)

Reader Contributions

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2006 | 10 Comments

An apology to Streetsblog tipsters. Though our new, high-tech "Contribute to Streetsblog" page has been up and running for a few weeks, I’ve been having technical problems with the tips@streetsblog.org account and haven’t really been checking reader mail very regularly. The problem is now fixed and I’m excavating lots of excellent contributions. I’ll try to […]

Central Park(ing Lot)

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 29, 2006 | 10 Comments

Ed. Note: This has got to be the best item ever to come to us via a Streetsblog tipster. We love the photos! Got a post you’d like to share? You know what to do. Recent reports have drawn attention to city officials abusing their parking privileges around municipal buildings in crowded commercial districts. Images of portly desk-sitting bureaucrats […]

Central and Prospect Park Updates

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 26, 2006 | 1 Comment

Here are a couple of updates from the parks from Streetsblog tipsters. The first is a heads up for all you riders using Central Park: This morning on Central Park’s West Drive, there was a road block of one lane with 10 cops presiding. When asked, one of the officers said that they were looking out for […]

Eyes on the Street: Central Park, Friday, June 23, 3:30 pm.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 26, 2006 | 5 Comments

The following note just came across the Streetsblog transom, from Michael, a 29-year-old business-owner in Manhattan. Michael is a tri-athlete and trains daily in Central Park on his Softride bicycle. This is what happened to him on Friday: I was riding my bike in Central Park. A ROAD BLOCK was set up in the bike […]

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