Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

A few weeks ago muni-meters began popping up on the streets of Inwood. Naturally, this made me wonder if the city had considered turning the neighborhood’s defunct coin-op meters into bike racks. DOT has converted discarded meter poles into racks in other parts of the city, and livable streets advocates have long noted Inwood’s lack […]

Eyes on the Street: Washington Heights Gets Safe Greenway Connection

By Noah Kazis | Nov 28, 2011 | 6 Comments

Two months after winning support from Manhattan Community Board 12, a safer connection to the Hudson River Greenway is now in place at 181st Street. Before, Riverside Drive north of 181st Street served as a one-way highway on-ramp, forcing cyclists exiting the greenway to either ride against traffic or dismount. Cars, too, drove the wrong […]

Eyes on the Street: “Bowtie of Death” Needs a New Nickname

By Noah Kazis | Oct 31, 2011 | 6 Comments

DOT has largely completed an overhaul of the complicated intersection of Broadway, Amsterdam and 71st Street, a year after presenting the plan to Community Board 7 (hat tip to the West Side Rag, which noted the new infrastructure last Thursday). Dubbed the “bowtie of death” by Borough President Scott Stringer and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, […]

Eyes on the Street: New Public Plaza Coming to Jackson Heights

By Ben Fried | Oct 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

Clarence sends over this photo of the newly car-free block of 37th Road between 73rd Street and 74th Street in Jackson Heights. Since this picture was taken, the asphalt on this block has been coated with an epoxy-and-gravel surface, and it looks like a two-way bike path will be striped on one side of the […]

Wanted: Your Post-Irene Pics

By Brad Aaron | Aug 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

From Clarence via the Streetfilms Facebook page: HURRICANE DOCUMENTATION ALERT! With Irene closing in, keep in mind there may be interesting things like this to document in the aftermath with your cameras. Are there lots of people on bikes? Are the streets more quiet? Will your city impose HOV requirements on bridges? Will people walk […]

Trend Watch: Sandwich Board Bikes

By Brad Aaron | Aug 26, 2011 | 4 Comments

Last year I bought an old one-speed Rifton cargo trike, partly under the delusion that it could one day be used to showcase inventory outside the neighborhood newsstand/used book store that I dream of owning in my retirement years — assuming periodicals, books and retirement still exist (see: delusion). Clarence Eckerson sends along these shots […]

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