Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Hell’s Kitchen

The Upside of Cuomo’s Convention Center Plan: Urbanism on the West Side

By Ben Fried | Jan 9, 2012 | 6 Comments

After Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address last week, Streetsblog looked a little closer at the governor’s plan to build the nation’s largest convention center at the Aqueduct racino in Ozone Park, Queens. Counting on a huge convention center near JFK airport to deliver economic development seemed like a dubious proposition, but the other […]

DOT Hell’s Kitchen Study Produces Slate of Pedestrian Safety Upgrades

By Noah Kazis | Oct 18, 2011 | 5 Comments

The Department of Transportation presented the findings [PDF] of its five-year study of transportation in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood at a packed public meeting last night. The massive transportation analysis included many critical projects that have already been announced, such as the 34th Street Select Bus Service route and extensions of the protected bike lanes along […]

West Side Protected Lanes Get Thumbs Up From CB 4

By Noah Kazis | Oct 6, 2011 | 6 Comments

By a vote of 26 to 10 Wednesday night, Manhattan Community Board 4 endorsed DOT plans to extend the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenue from 34th Street to 59th Street. The bike lanes will improve safety for all users on some of Midtown’s most chaotic streets, which pass by Penn Station, the […]

Wednesday: CB 4 to Vote on West Side Protected Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | Oct 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

Community Board 4 will vote Wednesday on the DOT plan to extend protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues north from 34th to 59th Streets. As Noah reported in September, the lanes will offer a much safer route for commuters, delineating protected space on wide avenues sorely in need of taming, particularly near Penn […]

CB 4 Committee Says Yes to West Side Protected Bike Lanes Up to 59th Street

By Noah Kazis | Sep 22, 2011 | 16 Comments

DOT’s plan to extend the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues from the low 30s north to 59th Street won unanimous approval from the transportation committee of Community Board 4 last night. With the exception of two blocks of Eighth Avenue in front of the Port Authority, the lanes will be fully protected […]

Top Traffic Cops Promise Pedestrians-First Enforcement at West Side Forum

By Noah Kazis | May 19, 2011 | 12 Comments

Top NYPD brass expressed surprise at West Side residents’ unhappiness with the department’s traffic enforcement policies and vowed to do better at a meeting of Manhattan CB 4’s transportation committee last night. They also announced a new citywide “pedestrians first” policy for the department. Four officers attended the CB 4 meeting, according to committee co-chair […]

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