Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Lower East Side

19 NYC Electeds Call for Separated Bus and Bike Lanes on East Side

By Ben Fried | Dec 16, 2009 | 12 Comments

State Assembly member Micah Kellner, City Council members Melissa Mark-Viverito and Dan Garodnick, Council member-elect Margaret Chin, and State Senator Bill Perkins are among 19 local electeds calling on DOT and the MTA to implement "true BRT" and "complete streets" on First and Second Avenues. A group of 19 elected officials has urged NYC DOT […]

World-Class Avenues for the East Side: What Great BRT Looks Like

By Ben Fried | Nov 18, 2009 | 52 Comments

BRT + bike: East Side avenues have enough space for physically separated busways and protected bike lanes. The biggest sustainable transportation story in New York right now is how DOT and the MTA plan to design Bus Rapid Transit corridors for the East Side of Manhattan. Will we get world-class avenues that attract more riders […]

Concrete Truck Plows Into Canal Street Sidewalk, Injuring Eight

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2009 | 13 Comments

Photo: Matt Hogan. Eight people were injured this afternoon after a concrete truck careened into the sidewalk on the one-block diagonal linking Canal Street to the Bowery. Vehicles exiting the Manhattan Bridge have turned this block, often teeming with people waiting for the Fung Wah Bus, into a constant danger zone. Here’s what an employee […]

Safer, More Livable Streets for the East Side — The Campaign Heats Up

By Ben Fried | Nov 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Advocates and volunteers working for protected bike paths on the East Side, flush from last month’s highly encouraging Community Board 8 vote, delivered more than a thousand handwritten letters yesterday to City Hall, supporting protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues. Keep an eye on this story. It’s a big one. East Side residents […]

Eyes on the Street: WillyB @ Delancey — Bring on the Stencils

By Ben Fried | Oct 27, 2009 | 5 Comments

Fresh markings are going down on the revamped approach to the Williamsburg Bridge at Delancey Street. Courtesy of Adopt-a-Bike Lane volunteer leader Marin Tockman, here’s what the site looked like as of yesterday afternoon. Seems like a marked, one-block connection to the median at Suffolk Street is imminent. Another reader informs us that Suffolk, which […]

Eyes on the Street: A Smoother Approach to the Willy-B

By Ben Fried | Oct 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

We’ve received a few reports in the past week about construction work on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge. DOT’s press office says six bike ramps are being installed, and we hear from observers on the ground that construction is largely complete as of this morning: The bridge approach at Delancey and Clinton Street […]

Show More Stories