Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Staten Island

Staten Islanders are helping reckless drivers with yellow ribbons. A Facebook group is encouraging them — and worse. Photo: Vince DiMiceli

Staten Island Vigilantes Helping Reckless Drivers Avoid Accountability

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 26, 2020 | No Comments

Staten Island anti-speed camera vigilantes are helping reckless drivers endanger their neighbors by alerting speeders that they are approaching a city-installed enforcement camera.

New cyclist too slow? You're ready to enlist in the War on Cars. Photo: Laura Shepard

Op-Ed: Don’t Forget Us, Bike Mayor!

By Samuel Santaella | Nov 29, 2019 | No Comments

The position should focus on bringing infrastructure to the under-served, outer-borough areas that need it most.

Hiking in the deep in the woods of Staten Island, our Rock correspondent came upon a number of sidewalks far from the nearest roads or houses. Photo: Vince DiMiceli

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND READ: Staten Island’s Sidewalks in the Woods

By Vince DiMiceli | Nov 28, 2019 | No Comments

Hidden in the forests of some of the Rock's southern-most parks are phantom sidewalks. Find out how they got there.

The Goethals Bridge bike and pedestrian path remains closed until DOT builds safe routes to access it. Photo: Vince DiMiceli

EXCLUSIVE: First Look at City Plan for Goethals Pedestrian Path

By Vince DiMiceli | Oct 8, 2019 | 8 Comments

The city has finally figured out a way to get cyclists safely to a year-old pathway that is yet to open.

The Bayonne Bridge (through a chain-link fence). Photo: Vince DiMiceli

Bayonne Bridge Bike-Ped Path Opens — With No Safe Way to Get There

By David Meyer | May 24, 2019 | 12 Comments

The Goethals Bridge pathway, meanwhile, is set to open "in the coming weeks" — once the Port Authority and DOT figure out a safe route for cyclists.

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