Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 12, 2007 | 28 Comments

Blinding headlights make cycling difficult on a mile-long uptown stretch of the Hudson River Greenway. Lars Klove is a professional photographer who lives way uptown and uses the Hudson River Greenway to bike to and from his apartment on 183rd Street just about every day. Now that it is getting dark earlier in the evening, […]

Chinatown Placard Abusers Get the Hook

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 5, 2007 | 23 Comments

It looks like 5th Precinct Commanding Officer Gin Yee, the Sheriff of Chinatown, is laying down the law once again. A Streetsblog tipster spotted these tow trucks as they were removing government placard abusers from their illegal parking spots in Chinatown. While it’s refreshing to see the police "towing their own," the tipster notes that […]

This is the Pedestrian Refuge Area That CB8 Refused to Protect

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 3, 2007 | 41 Comments

This scene was photographed by Flickr photographer BicyclesOnly on Saturday. Read his note below. Hopefully someone will ask members of Manhattan Community Board 8’s transportation committee if this sort of car crash meets their rigorous aesthetic standards. Last January, CB8 rejected a proposal to physically protect Park Avenue’s pedestrian refuge areas because they didn’t think […]

New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 28, 2007 | 35 Comments

Streetsblog reader Dave Goldberg sends along a camera phone photo of the freshly striped Bleecker Street bike lane, shot between LaGuardia Place and Mercer Street. Goldberg notes: I can’t say that the striping was universally respected. You can see from the background of the photo that there’s a car in the lane. Also, between Mercer […]

You Can be a Streetsblog Contributor Too

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

This photo comes to us from Bicyclesonly who is uploading photos (of, you guessed it, bicycles only) to Flickr and tagging them "streetsblog." By tagging your photos as such, they will automatically pop up on our newly revamped "Contribute to Streetsblog" page over there in the upper left corner of the screen. You can upload […]

Cabbie Mistakes East River Park Bike Path for Highway

By Jason Varone | Oct 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

The marker to the south is where the speeding taxi passed the cyclist. The marker to the north is where the cyclist gave up trying to chase after him. A tipster sends along this story from the East River Park bike path… Yesterday around 6:15PM, my friend and I were biking home from work through […]

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