Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Mixing Zone, D.C.-Style

By Ben Fried | Mar 13, 2013 | 27 Comments

Reader Mike Epstein sends in this photo of a “mixing zone” on L Street in downtown Washington, D.C., that looks a lot different than the ones here in NYC. Mixing zones are the areas where bike traffic merges with turning car traffic at the approach to intersections along protected bike lanes. New York’s mixing zones […]

Eyes on the Street: Reconstructing the East River Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Feb 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

Last week, we reported about the Blueway Plan for the East River waterfront, which includes a deck over the FDR Drive at 14th Street to fix a notorious pinch point in the East Side greenway. In the meantime, the greenway is receiving some nuts-and-bolts upgrades. The bikeway in East River Park, long prone to ponding, is […]

Eyes on the Street: How About a Slow Zone for Prince Street?

By Ben Fried | Feb 8, 2013 | 8 Comments

Brooklyn Spoke’s Doug Gordon tweeted this photo Wednesday morning. This crash happened at the intersection of Prince and Crosby in Soho, which gets a ton of foot traffic and sees some of the highest bike counts in the city. It’s only random chance that someone didn’t get hit. One change that would help regulate drivers’ […]

Eyes on the Street: An Argument for Protected Bike Lanes in One Photograph

By Stephen Miller | Jan 7, 2013 | 34 Comments

Elevated from today’s headline stack: Photographer Dmitry Gudkov snapped this picture on Friday afternoon of a commercial van — the phone number goes to Glass & Windows, Inc., of Long Island City — straddling the concrete barrier that separates a two-way bike lane, and the sidewalk beyond, from the busy intersection where Flushing Avenue crosses beneath the Brooklyn […]

Eyes on the Street: A Better Walk to the Center of Bartel Pritchard Square

By Stephen Miller | Nov 30, 2012 | 5 Comments

Bartel Pritchard Square, at the southwest corner of Prospect Park, received some tweaks this morning, including new and re-striped crosswalks enhancing access to the central space in the middle of the traffic circle. There are also markings to channel traffic as it enters the square, and the short stretch of bike lane between Prospect Park West […]

Eyes on the Street: A New Bike Corral and a Safer Intersection in Cobble Hill

By Stephen Miller | Nov 30, 2012 | 30 Comments

Yesterday, DOT crews installed a bike corral on Court Street near the intersection with Pacific Street, in a “no standing” zone that was often ignored. Like other bike corrals the city has recently installed, this one will improve safety for pedestrians by keeping the corner visible to turning drivers. It’s also going to improve customer access […]

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