Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Washington Heights

Upper Manhattan Poised to Get Its First Protected Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Apr 8, 2014 | 25 Comments

DOT will install Upper Manhattan’s first protected bike lane this summer, pending an endorsement from Community Board 12. The parking-protected lane would run north-south on Fort George Hill, which is one-way southbound for drivers, between Fairview Avenue and Dyckman Street/Nagle Avenue. Its installation would be part of a slate of new bike facilities and refurbishments […]

Ten Months Later, Parks Department Fills in Hudson River Greenway Hole

By Stephen Miller | Apr 7, 2014 | 20 Comments

Last June, we reported on a sinkhole in the Hudson River Greenway just north of 181st Street in Washington Heights. The Parks Department, which manages the path, said it had cordoned off the hole and was assessing the situation. As of yesterday, nothing much had changed in ten months — except the hole has filled […]

Parks Department: City Hopes to Complete High Bridge Rehab This Year

By Brad Aaron | Mar 26, 2014 | 5 Comments

Last year Mayor Bloomberg announced that the long-awaited restoration of the car-free High Bridge would be completed “by 2014.” Work began soon after, and the Parks Department tells Streetsblog the rehab is slated to wrap before the year is over. “While we estimate that the construction will be completed in December of this year, we […]

CB 12 Committee Endorses Ped Improvements at Chaotic Inwood Intersection

By Brad Aaron | Nov 7, 2013 | 9 Comments

Long-awaited improvements to a hazardous Broadway crossing in Inwood could be implemented next year, if Community Board 12 passes a resolution that cleared the board’s transportation committee this week. The committee and around 50 residents gathered Monday night to hear DOT’s proposals for the intersection of Broadway, Dyckman/200th Street and Riverside Drive [PDF], where pedestrians must […]

Three New Yorkers, Including Two Seniors, Killed by Drivers in the Past Week

By Brad Aaron | Oct 24, 2013 | 1 Comment

Three people were killed by motorists in NYC since last Friday, including two hit-and-run victims. Two of the victims were also senior citizens. At around 4:40 a.m. Friday, a motorist in a dark-colored car fatally struck Antonio Ramirez, 40, at Audubon Avenue and 176th Street in Washington Heights, then fled the scene, according to reports. Along […]

Denny Farrell at Uptown Ped Safety Meeting: “I Drive Everywhere”

By Stephen Miller | Aug 27, 2013 | 18 Comments

The intersection of 155th Street, Edgecombe Avenue, St. Nicholas Place, and Harlem River Driveway is a busy, complex web where pedestrians jockey with turning drivers to cross wide expanses of asphalt. DOT began studying the location after a request from Council Member Robert Jackson. A final design and community board review is months away, but at […]

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