Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Midtown Pop-Up Café an Instant Attraction

By Noah Kazis | May 10, 2011 | 19 Comments

Pop-up indeed! A reader sends along this photo of the new pop-up café on 44th Street, just west of Third Avenue. The local community board just approved the café in March, while one local resident, convinced that Midtown is an “inappropriate location” for more public seating, was still fighting to block it last month. Now […]

Eyes on the Street: NYPD’s Traffic Enforcement Resources at Work

By Ben Fried | Apr 21, 2011 | 29 Comments

Here’s another story of how Police Commissioner Ray Kelly allows his scarce traffic safety resources to be spent. Reader Marc Norman took this picture after an encounter at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge bike-ped path this morning. He writes: Because I can’t help myself, I got off my bike and asked the cop parked […]

Eyes on the Street: The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Bike Approach

By Ben Fried | Apr 20, 2011 | 16 Comments

Clarence sends along a few more shots from the beginning of construction season. These come from Queens Plaza, where the two-way bike approach to the Queensboro Bridge is extending eastward. The bike approach, part of a package of public space improvements to Queens Plaza, will eventually connect Vernon Boulevard and Northern Boulevard. The segment between […]

Eyes on the Street: Two Lanes of Ped Space Coming to Chelsea Subway Stop

By Noah Kazis | Apr 12, 2011 | 13 Comments

Construction is underway at the intersection of 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, where DOT is building new pedestrian refuge islands and a sidewalk extension to provide some extra space around a busy subway station. The intersection, currently in the 99th percentile for severity-weighted traffic injuries in the city, will also have its signals […]

Eyes on the Street: Gabbing on Garfield Street, After the Parade

By Ben Fried | Mar 21, 2011 | 3 Comments

Thought you might enjoy this street scene from Garfield Place yesterday afternoon, sent by reader Jeff Prant. The Park Slope St. Patrick’s Day Parade had passed through earlier in the day, leaving in its wake some neighborly conversation. I’m guessing Donald Appleyard would have liked this picture.

Eyes on the Street: NYPD Cruiser Rammed in Park Slope

By Brad Aaron | Mar 15, 2011 | 7 Comments

Courtesy of reader Joanna Oltman Smith, this was the scene in Park Slope this morning, hours after a collision between a speeding driver and NYPD officers on Fifth Avenue between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Details from the Brooklyn Paper: One witness said the car was doing at least 70 mph when it tore through the […]

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