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Eyes on the Street: DOT Breaks Out the Terracotta for Third Ave Bus Lane

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2014 | 7 Comments

Work is underway on updates to the Third Avenue bus lane. Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson and reader David Dartley tweeted these shots of what will eventually be an offset lane from 36th to 55th Street, a configuration designed to speed bus travel by shifting parking and loading to the curb [PDF]. The Third Avenue bus lane dates […]

Eyes on the Street: The Evolution of the Bergen Street Protected Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Oct 1, 2014 | 31 Comments

What began as an ad hoc fix for a bike lane chronically clogged by cars has become permanent after DOT installed a block-long barrier on the Bergen Street bike lane in front of the 78th Precinct in Prospect Heights. It started more than two years ago when Ian Dutton moved some leftover ConEd cones a […]

Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Aftermath at 4th Ave and Degraw

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2014 | 5 Comments

Reader Mike Donohue sends this eyewitness account of a driver who fled the scene of a crash in Park Slope Sunday morning. At about 9:45 a.m., Donohue was on his bike, stopped at a red light on Degraw Street at Fourth Avenue. When the light turned green for traffic on Degraw, a driver heading north on […]

Eyes on the Street: Safer Streets Come to Jackson Heights

By Stephen Miller | Sep 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

In June, Queens Community Board 3 overwhelmingly supported two traffic safety projects: a neighborhood Slow Zone for part of Jackson Heights and new pedestrian islands on Northern Boulevard. Now those improvements plus multiple Safe Routes to School projects are being installed. Clarence Eckerson Jr. snapped some photos earlier this week as DOT crews poured concrete […]

Eyes on the Street: Drivers Retake the Kent Avenue Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Sep 24, 2014 | 105 Comments

DOT reconfigured the southern part of the Kent Avenue bike lane this spring, but that hasn’t stopped drivers from taking over the lane and the sidewalk for personal parking. A reader took this photo earlier today. He writes: I bike from LIC to Clinton Hill every morning and use the Kent Ave bike path. Luckily […]

Eyes on the Street: It’s Not Easy, Being the Right Shade of Green

By Stephen Miller | Sep 5, 2014 | 18 Comments

With construction on the massive Third Water Tunnel shifting east along Grand Street, the section of the street through Soho, Little Italy, and Chinatown is getting repaved for the first time in years. Along with the new surface comes restoration of Grand Street’s protected bike lane — this time with a twist: Unlike other NYC bike […]

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