Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper West Side

Attn DOT: Amsterdam Avenue Is Begging for a Protected Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Jul 28, 2015 | 41 Comments

DOT is in the process of repaving Amsterdam Avenue from 79th Street to 93rd Street. Here’s the scene at 84th Street yesterday afternoon, courtesy of Community Board 7 member Ken Coughlin. Think there’s enough space for a protected bike lane? Nine feet is all you need. Amsterdam is one of the big voids in the […]

DOT Finalizes Weak Bike-Share Station Maps for Manhattan Expansion [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Jul 10, 2015 | 21 Comments

DOT’s bike-share expansion maps for the Upper West Side and Upper East Side are now final, and they’re not any better than the draft maps that showed a thinned-out network of stations for some of the city’s densest neighborhoods. The final maps shift a handful of stations around but don’t add any (here’s the UWS final […]

All Eyes on DOT After CB 7 Endorses Amsterdam Ave Protected Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jul 8, 2015 | 13 Comments

Will the third time be the charm? Manhattan Community Board 7 has overwhelmingly voted — again — to ask the city for a northbound protected bike lane as part of a redesign of Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side. DOT will have to move forward on a redesign very soon to get a complement to the southbound protected bike lane on Columbus […]

NYPD: No ROW Charge for Driver Who Killed Moshe Grun in UWS Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | Jun 16, 2015 | 108 Comments

Will NYPD file Right of Way Law charges against a driver who fatally struck Moshe Grun in an Upper West Side crosswalk? A sergeant from the 20th Precinct wouldn’t answer that question, denying Grun had died before deferring to an investigator who was on vacation. Grun, 59, was crossing Broadway at W. 62nd Street, in the marked crosswalk, […]

CB 7 Committee Asks DOT for Amsterdam Protected Bike Lane “Immediately”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 11, 2015 | 7 Comments

On Tuesday, the Manhattan Community Board 7 transportation committee unanimously passed a resolution asking DOT to immediately install a protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue in the neighborhood. DOT has built out a southbound protected bike lane on Columbus Avenue from 110th Street almost to Columbus Circle over the past five years, but the city has not created a […]

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