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Eyes on the Street: “RUDE 1” Jumps the Curb on East 12th Street

By Ben Fried | Apr 2, 2010 | 2 Comments

Photo: JRomanceOnline Via EVGrieve, this was scene on East 12th Street near First Avenue on Wednesday evening. A crew of local bloggers and tweeters have crowdsourced some of the details about what happened. Five people were hurt, luckily none seriously, according to EVGrieve’s email tipster. Neighborhood blogger Chris O’Leary found out from an officer at […]

Eyes on the Street: NYPD Chivalry Is Dead on 34th Street

By Noah Kazis | Mar 12, 2010 | 38 Comments

The officers who parked here apparently aren’t the type to help old ladies cross the street. Photo: ddartley/Flickr Thanks to tipster ddartley for the latest chapter in NYPD’s ongoing mistreatment of bus riders on 34th Street. Yesterday, eight cruisers from northern Queens (precincts 110, 111, 112, 114 and 115) sat parked in the bus lane […]

Eyes on the Street: Wall-to-Wall Press Coverage of Tillary Street Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2010 | 23 Comments

A reader sent in these photos from a media scrum last Friday evening in the Tillary Street bike lane in Downtown Brooklyn. Notice how the press vehicles have completely blocked the two-way protected lane, forcing cyclists onto the other side of the barrier.

Eyes on the Street: Hey Pal, Where’s the Fire?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 7, 2010 | 1 Comment

We’re accustomed to the dangerous disrespect shown by NYPD to non-driving commuters, but a tip we received yesterday shows that cops haven’t cornered the market on civil servants putting lives at risk. Our reader reports from Union and Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn: Today, at this known traffic spillover point, the operator of this FDNY vehicle […]

Eyes on the Street: Crossing Guard Clamps Down on Crosswalk-Nudgers

By Brad Aaron | Dec 10, 2009 | 17 Comments

This vid from BicyclesOnly shows a school crossing guard, at Madison Ave. and 96th St., who takes her job seriously. Whenever the light on Madison turned green, BO writes, she entered the intersection to assert the rights of those passing through on foot. Good thing, too. Every single time there were motorists that clearly intended […]

Eyes on the Street: Placard Abuse, From Sea to Shining Sea

By Brad Aaron | Dec 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

We got a tip yesterday about an errant driver hogging a curbside spot in a residential area: So, outside my house is a street with two hour parking. Today a Jaguar with dealer plates was parked there all day. When I checked, it was because there was an FD placard on the car. No news […]

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