Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Eyes on the Street: The First Avenue Bike Lane Gap Is Shrinking

By Ben Fried | Oct 23, 2015 | 13 Comments

DOT tweeted a status report this afternoon on the First Avenue protected bike lane gap. Green paint is down on the newly protected section between 49th Street and 56th Street: #1stAve protected #bikenyc lane update: Wed PM: Roadway prepared for paint. Friday: Green paint on the ground! pic.twitter.com/yO0DhNzkri — NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) October 23, 2015 […]

Next Up for SBS: 23rd Street in Manhattan, Canarsie to Gravesend in Brooklyn

By Stephen Miller | Oct 5, 2015 | 8 Comments

Two more enhanced bus routes are entering the project pipeline in NYC, one along a busy Manhattan crosstown street and the other snaking across a transit-hungry stretch of Brooklyn. The Manhattan project will run across 23rd Street. The Brooklyn project would tackle a long route following the B6 and B82 between East New York and Gravesend, which carried a […]

Mark Your Calendars: Summer Streets Returns in August

By Stephen Miller | Jul 23, 2015 | 16 Comments

Another summer, another edition of Summer Streets. For the eighth year, New York’s spin on Ciclovia is coming to nearly seven miles of streets on Manhattan’s east side. For three Saturdays in August — the 1st, 8th and 15th — Park Avenue, Lafayette Street, and a portion of 72nd Street between Central Park and the Brooklyn […]

Team de Blasio Makes Its Case for a One-Year “Uber Cap”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 30, 2015 | 55 Comments

The de Blasio administration made its case for temporarily restricting the growth of licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber at a City Council hearing this morning. With congestion in Manhattan getting worse, City Hall’s plan is to cap the number of new for-hire vehicles on city streets for the next year while it studies the impact of […]

With Congestion Getting Worse, City Wants to Stem Flood of Uber Licenses

By Stephen Miller | Jun 23, 2015 | 14 Comments

The de Blasio administration and the City Council want to slow the growth in new black car licenses over the next year. With companies like Uber adding tens of thousands of black cars to the mix over the past few years, mainly in the most congested parts of Manhattan, the city wants to get a better handle […]

The Case for 24/7 Access to the High Bridge

By Ben Fried | Jun 22, 2015 | 18 Comments

Video of opening day on the High Bridge: Clarence Eckerson. New York City’s bike network would be a shell of its current self without the segments that run through parks. The most heavily traveled bike route in the city — the Hudson River Greenway — is in a park. Paths in Central Park, Prospect Park, and other public […]

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