Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

How a Non-Profit Housing Developer Brought Safer Streets to the South Bronx

By Stephen Miller | Jul 24, 2014 | 3 Comments

When the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, known as WHEDco, was founded in 1992, the dark days of arson and abandonment in the South Bronx were still fresh in people’s minds. The organization set out to build new housing in a devastated neighborhood — and decided to take a broader view of community development by also […]

Bronx Advocates Press State DOT to Take Action on Sheridan Plan

By Stephen Miller | Jul 17, 2014 | No Comments

After years of wrangling, advocates, businesses, and elected officials have gotten behind a city plan to convert the Sheridan Expressway into a boulevard and take trucks off local streets by building direct ramps from the Bruckner Expressway to Hunts Point. Now it’s up to the state to turn the plan into reality, and the first […]

Bronx Advocates Push for New Pedestrian Plaza in Soundview

By Stephen Miller | Jul 15, 2014 | 3 Comments

Near the intersection of Morrison and Westchester Avenues in Soundview, just a block from the Bronx River Parkway, one block separates a forlorn green triangle from Parque de Los Niños and its well-used benches and baseball diamonds. Now, a local group is hoping to phase in public space upgrades to the area through DOT’s plaza […]

One of the Most Dangerous Streets in the Bronx Is Getting a Road Diet

By Stephen Miller | Jul 7, 2014 | 10 Comments

White Plains Road, running 2.8 miles between East Tremont and Birchall Avenues, is one of the Bronx’s most dangerous streets, with more traffic deaths and severe injuries than 90 percent of the other streets in the borough. Most of this wide, overbuilt road is set to receive a road diet by September, converting two lanes […]

Bronx Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Abigail Lino Gets Six Months in Jail

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2014 | No Comments

A hit-and-run driver who killed a woman in the Bronx in 2013 will serve six months in jail. Harlem resident Abigail Lino, 24, was crossing Bruckner Avenue near a Longwood club at around 3 a.m. last August 31 when Leroy Forest hit her with “a speeding silver SUV,” according to the Daily News: Witnesses said Lino’s […]

New Bronx River Greenway Link Would Remake Asphalt Expanse

By Stephen Miller | Jun 9, 2014 | 4 Comments

After years of inter-agency wrangling, a wide-open intersection in the Bronx is set for a complete redesign that will include a new link in the Bronx River Greenway. The city presented a preliminary design [PDF] to Community Board 6’s transportation committee last Thursday. While the plan is a big step forward, it lacks a crosswalk that would […]

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