Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Parking Placard Abuse in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

By Stephen Miller | May 23, 2014 | 7 Comments

Parking placard abuse might be most noticeable in hotspots like Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, but it’s an epidemic in neighborhoods across the city. Reader Eli Forsythe sent in photos of an illegally-parked car with a placard on the dash in Prospect Lefferts Gardens last weekend. “Cars are constantly parking in front of my building,” he writes. […]

Parks Dept. Promises Fix After Year-Old Sinkhole Finally Swallows Greenway

By Stephen Miller | May 7, 2014 | 15 Comments

It’s been almost a year since we first reported on a sinkhole eating away at the Hudson River Greenway just north of 181st Street. The Parks Department added barricades, an old board, and finally filled it with gravel last month while it figured out “a long-term solution.” The clock is ticking: In the past couple […]

Eyes on the Street: Jackson Heights Triangle Turns Into a Plaza

By Stephen Miller | May 5, 2014 | 1 Comment

Sometimes, it’s the little things that make a big difference. Manuel de Dios Unanue Triangle provides a speck of green along Roosevelt Avenue in the packed Jackson Heights neighborhood, but for years, there was nowhere to sit. Even the brick wall surrounding the trees was topped with two spike strips to discourage people from resting for […]

Eyes on the Street: Whole Foods Takes the Whole Bike Lane (and Sidewalk)

By Stephen Miller | May 2, 2014 | 23 Comments

The huge surface parking lot and inward-facing, suburban-style design were bad enough. Now the Gowanus Whole Foods Market is taking over the Third Avenue bike lane and sidewalk as a private loading zone. Doug Gordon of Brooklyn Spoke snapped a photo of a Whole Foods forklift and piles of pallets using the Third Avenue buffered bike […]

Eyes on the Street: An Early Look at the Lafayette Protected Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Apr 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

Crews have been making good progress on the Lafayette Street redesign [PDF], the first protected bike lane project installed by the de Blasio administration. As of yesterday, the striping work had progressed from Spring Street up past 4th Street, where Philip Winn of Project for Public Spaces snapped these photos. The Lafayette Street project will […]

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 […]

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