CB 7 Committees Endorse Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing
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The project would demolish two garages with 675 parking spaces to make room for about 200 additional subsidized housing units.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper West Side
CB 7 to DOT: Unprotected Bike Lanes Still Not Good Enough for 110th Street
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For the second time this year, DOT came to Manhattan Community Board 7 with a redesign of 110th Street that doesn't include protected bike lanes. And for the second time, board members told DOT to go back to the drawing board.
Car Storage Clashes Against Affordable Housing on the Upper West Side
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Which do New Yorkers value more: parking garages to store cars or apartments to house neighbors? Rarely is the question framed as starkly as with the plan to demolish two city-owned parking garages and build 304 units of subsidized housing on 108th Street.
Eyes on the Street: Leading Bicycle Intervals and Semi-Protected Intersections
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Readers are spying new DOT intersection treatments for bikeways popping up in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
A Trucker Killed a Cyclist at the Spot Where de Blasio Announced His E-Bike Crackdown
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Abu Rifat has died from injuries sustained when a tractor-trailer driver ran him over as he biked on Amsterdam Avenue earlier this month, NYPD said yesterday. The crash happened at the intersection where Mayor de Blasio announced his crackdown on food delivery workers who use electric bikes.
The M86 Moves Faster and More People Are Riding Thanks to Queue Jumps
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While bus ridership is down citywide -- and especially in Manhattan -- there are some routes that are bucking the trend. One that's gaining riders is the M86, which got a package of upgrades from DOT and the MTA in 2015. The improvements included off-board fare collection and queue jumps -- short bus lane segments that enable buses to cut ahead of other traffic at signals.