Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalks, Better Bike Lanes, Safer Streets

By Ben Fried | Nov 23, 2009 | 13 Comments

Clarence Eckerson sends these shots of DOT street safety improvements taken on a recent ride near the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. Above is the newly traffic-calmed intersection of Joralemon and Hicks — part of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project — which now sports two sidewalk extensions. (According to the Post, a third corner was […]

Eyes on the Street: Access Denied

By Brad Aaron | Nov 12, 2009 | 28 Comments

Photo: Gothamist Here’s another case of dangerously uncivil servitude, via Gothamist’s John Del Signore, who came upon an Access-A-Ride driver parked in the elevated Sands Street bike lane. It’s no surprise that Del Signore’s complaint to the driver was answered with a shrug (or, more accurately, a "What’s the big deal? Just go around."). But […]

Eyes on the Street: You Don’t Belong in the Bike Lane, Sir

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2009 | 25 Comments

A reader sends this photo of a huge rig using Kent Avenue’s new protected bike path as its own, highly illegal shortcut. Our tipster says the trucker was bearing down on him at a rapid clip for several blocks before slowing down enough to hear an inquiry through the window: "What do you think you’re […]

Eyes on the Street: Disrespect, and Defiance, at the Bus Stop

By Brad Aaron | Nov 2, 2009 | 11 Comments

This was the scene in Washington Heights Friday evening, after this guy, along with two others, parked their gigantic rental truck directly in front of a trio of elderly people waiting for the M4 at W. 187th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. Rather than sit passively with the spewing behemoth a few feet from their […]

Eyes on the Street: Stone Bike Lane in LIC

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2009 | 13 Comments

A reader sent in this photo earlier in the month of what looks like an inlaid stone bike lane on Center Boulevard, in the Queens West development in Long Island City. Repeated queries to DOT yielded no additional info, but we thought this one was too nice to sit on any longer. Anyone know how […]

Eyes on the Street: A Smoother Approach to the Willy-B

By Ben Fried | Oct 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

We’ve received a few reports in the past week about construction work on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge. DOT’s press office says six bike ramps are being installed, and we hear from observers on the ground that construction is largely complete as of this morning: The bridge approach at Delancey and Clinton Street […]

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