Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Harlem

Uptown Bike Network Gets Safer With New Buffered Path in Harlem

By Ben Fried | Apr 20, 2009 | 8 Comments

A new buffered bike path on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard will create a safer connection to Central Park. Compared to downtown Manhattan, the bike network in Harlem is on the patchy side, with only a few on-street lanes. Safer streets are on the way, however. Last week, DOT presented plans for a buffered bike […]

CB Action Tomorrow: New Bike Routes for Harlem and Greenwich Village

By Ben Fried | Apr 13, 2009 | 20 Comments

A buffered bike lane is slated to replace a traffic lane on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard. Image: NYCDOT [PDF] Two Manhattan community boards are meeting Tuesday evening to discuss new bike routes planned by DOT. If you’d like to support the proposals, and perhaps nudge DOT to beef up some of the provisions for […]

At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 8, 2008 | 16 Comments

Streetsblog reader Richard Conroy sends along these photos and writes: Yesterday there was an article about Randi Weingarten saying teachers don’t abuse parking permits. I found that amusing since my daily commute takes me past P.S. 161 in Harlem where there are numerous vehicles parked on the sidewalk every school day. This school is on […]

Its Showtime for the DOT Parking Team

By John Kaehny | Nov 30, 2007 | 33 Comments

As usual, traffic was heavy on 125th Street outside the Alhambra Ballroom in central Harlem, Wednesday evening, where the Department of Transportation held its fourth of seven planned workshops to discuss parking strategies in neighborhoods bordering the City’s proposed congestion pricing zone. According to Bruce Schaller, Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability at the DOT, […]

A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 19, 2006 | 8 Comments

This is an artist’s rendering of what West 125th Street would look like after Columbia University’s expansion is completed more than a decade from now. (It is included in an overview of the plans that appears in the print edition of Columbia magazine, which, um, hasn’t updated its web presence in a while.) Regardless of whether you’re […]