Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Tonight: Important Complete Streets Meetings in Manhattan and Queens

By Stephen Miller | Sep 4, 2014 | No Comments

Tonight’s a big night for livable streets events, with community board meetings on proposals for Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, and Long Island City. Plus, join Streetsblog at ARTCRANK if you’re looking for some fun. Key community board meetings tonight are: Manhattan Community Board 2’s transportation committee will consider a resolution requesting that DOT […]

Slow Zones, Safer Arterials Win Over CBs in Manhattan and Queens

By Stephen Miller | Jun 20, 2014 | 1 Comment

At its annual outdoor meeting in Diversity Plaza last night, Queens Community Board 3 voted to support two traffic safety projects: a new neighborhood Slow Zone in Jackson Heights and nine additional pedestrian refuge islands on Northern Boulevard, one of the borough’s most dangerous arterial streets. “It was not very contentious at all. It was […]

Summer Streets and (Mostly) Car-Free Central Park: Same As Last Year

By Stephen Miller | Jun 19, 2014 | 22 Comments

Six years ago, when Summer Streets was introduced, the New York Times asked: Will it work? This year, the question is: Why isn’t the city doing more of it? The ciclovia, which attracted 300,000 people over three Saturdays last August, will mark its seventh year by returning to the East Side on August 2, 9, […]

Broadway Speed Limit to Drop to 25 MPH From Columbus Circle to Inwood

By Brad Aaron | May 1, 2014 | 13 Comments

The speed limit will be lowered to 25 miles per hour on eight miles of upper Broadway this summer, DOT announced today. Motorists have killed 22 pedestrians on Broadway from Columbus Circle to W. 220 Street in Inwood since 2008, according to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, who was flanked by NYPD officials, city and state […]

Eyes on the Street: An Early Look at the Lafayette Protected Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Apr 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

Crews have been making good progress on the Lafayette Street redesign [PDF], the first protected bike lane project installed by the de Blasio administration. As of yesterday, the striping work had progressed from Spring Street up past 4th Street, where Philip Winn of Project for Public Spaces snapped these photos. The Lafayette Street project will […]

At Manhattan Vision Zero Forum, NYPD Says Better Crash Data Coming Soon

By Stephen Miller | Mar 27, 2014 | 4 Comments

The Vision Zero town hall roadshow returned to Manhattan last night with a well-attended forum at John Jay College. Elected officials, agency representatives and the public gathered to discuss the city’s plan to eliminate traffic fatalities and to offer suggestions for the initiative. Like last week’s forum in Astoria, some new details came out over […]

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