Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Central Park

Reason Makes a Comeback in Central Park

By Ken Coughlin | Apr 15, 2011 | 17 Comments

It may now be safe for cyclists who want to get some exercise — as opposed to waiting for lights to turn green or for officers to finish writing $270 tickets — to return to Central Park. At a meeting Wednesday night with representatives of groups that use the park’s loop road, the Central Park […]

UWS Struggles to Solve Central Park Bike Crackdown, Likes East-West Paths

By Noah Kazis | Mar 29, 2011 | 9 Comments

Upper West Side residents want to make Central Park once again a welcoming place for recreational cyclists, based on the near-unanimous position of Community Board 7’s parks and transportation committees at a joint meeting last night. But with the NYPD intransigently committed to its ticketing blitz and DOT unwilling to pay for changes to the […]

Video: Rodriguez, Lander Call for Return to Sanity in Central Park

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2011 | 21 Comments

Via Andy Shen at NYVelocity, here’s the video of this week’s press conference and rally at City Hall, where Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Brad Lander kicked off the push to set traffic signals in Central Park and Prospect Park to flashing yellow during car-free hours. It’s encouraging to hear some clear thinking from Council […]

NYPD: Riding Faster Than 15 MPH in Central Park Now Illegal

By Ben Fried | Mar 22, 2011 | 59 Comments

NYPD’s apparent bid to criminalize recreational cycling in Central Park took another surreal turn this morning. One week after hundreds of people asked police to stop the irrational barrage of red light tickets for cyclists in the park, NYPD has apparently doubled down on its bike enforcement blitz. Cycling message boards lit up today with […]

Hundreds Ask NYPD to Cease Irrational Bike Crackdown in Central Park

By Ken Coughlin | Mar 15, 2011 | 70 Comments

A crowd of 300 people, outraged at a police ticket blitz that threatens to effectively eliminate Central Park as a place of recreation for cyclists, ran into an unyielding blue wall at last night’s meeting of the Central Park Precinct’s community council. The precinct commander, Captain Philip Wishnia, offered no hope that his precinct’s enforcement […]

When Will the Central Park Bike Blitz Be Over? “Ask the Mayor”

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2011 | 25 Comments

When NYPD announced that it was going to step up its bike enforcement at the beginning of the year, the best-case scenario went like this: Police would give out more tickets for risky, anti-social behavior like wrong-way biking, and the streets would seem a little more orderly as cycling continues its upward trajectory in NYC. […]

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