Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Instant Bike Parking in Key West, Florida [Updated]

By Noah Kazis | Apr 12, 2012 | No Comments

Update: As of April 2015 this bike corral had been removed and replaced by a car parking spot. Brad Aaron, back down in Key West for spring break, files this update from South Florida’s bike-friendly isle. Spotted these guys installing a bike corral just off Duval Street, Key West’s main drag, on Monday afternoon. Parts of […]

Eyes on the Street: An Unnecessary Takeover of the 14th Street Plaza

By Brad Aaron | Apr 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

In March, The Uni posted photos of a behemoth advertising installation in the pedestrian plaza on 14th Street and Ninth Avenue. Here it is as of late last week. We received reports that today it’s coming down. For a solid two weeks, most of the plaza was reserved for cosmetics samples as passersby were blasted […]

Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Sighting on the Upper East Side

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2012 | 10 Comments

Reader Liz Patek sends these shots of the new road markings on First Avenue in the 60s. The protected bike lane that Manhattan Community Board 8 approved last summer is going in. Until now there was no bike infrastructure at all on First Avenue between 60th Street and 72nd Street. Filling that gap is DOT’s […]

Eyes on the Street: Mondo Bike Parking at DC Metro

By Ben Fried | Mar 22, 2012 | 2 Comments

As a New Yorker in DC for the National Bike Summit this week (stay tuned for the upcoming Streetfilm), my eyes popped at the sight of the ample-yet-filled-to-capacity bike racks at many Metro stations. Bike-to-Metro trips increased at a rapid clip in the aughts, and in 2010 WMATA, the agency that runs Metro, laid out […]

Eyes on the Street: Driver Goes Wheels-Up Outside Inwood School

By Brad Aaron | Mar 20, 2012 | No Comments

Via Shannon Park (@GothamGoddess), this was the scene on Park Terrace West at Isham Street in Inwood this morning. Hard to tell how the driver of the SUV managed to mount a parked livery cab, but we do know a few things. Park Terrace West is not a wide, speed-inducing roadway. It’s northbound-only with parking […]

Eyes on the Street: More Bike Cops? More Bike Cops!

By Brad Aaron | Mar 8, 2012 | 10 Comments

Here’s another shot of the NYPD bike corps in glorious action. Our tipster says this driver was nabbed after running a red on Ninth Avenue near 34th Street. As the saying goes, twice is coincidence, three times is a trend. A Streetfilms t-shirt to the next reader who sends in a pic of pedal-powered NYPD […]

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