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‘Express Bike Lane’ Coming Soon to First Ave. Tunnel
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The First Avenue tunnel is slated to become an express bike lane. It's back — and it's never going away again. Cyclists will not only soon be able to ride through the tunnel below First Avenue outside the United Nations — as they have for the past five years during the annual confab of world leaders — but the protected bike path in the ...
Gersh Kuntzman - Streetsblog New York City
WEBGersh Kuntzman. Tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman has been with New York newspapers since 1989, including stints at the New York Daily News, the Post, the Brooklyn Paper and even a cup of coffee with the Times. He’s also the writer and producer of “Murder at the Food Coop,” which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The ...
SEE IT: Horrifying Crash at Notorious Queens Intersection Puts City …
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · A man was run over — twice — by two reckless drivers at a dangerous Queens intersection on Saturday night, first by a car owner who clipped him in a crosswalk and then by a second driver who rolled over the wounded man with his massive SUV with both sets of wheels before apparently leaving him for dead.
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
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WEBAug 10, 2024 · Money for Something: DOT Starts $89M Paseo Park Redesign Outreach. The Department of Transportation held its first vision meeting for the redesign of the 26-block 34th Avenue open street. Of course, some opponents were so angry that they didn't bother to participate.
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WEBSep 5, 2023 · A decade-in-the-making plan to transform Atlantic Avenue from an inhospitable car-sewer into a pedestrian-and-bike-friendly corridor with affordable housing and mixed-use development took one, tiny, step forward last week with the release of a new city planning document — but the Department of Transportation is already expressing doubts about a long-sought bike lane.
New Year’s Leave! City To Kick Vendors Off Bridges Tomorrow
WEBJan 2, 2024 · The vendors will be cleared off of the historic span on Wednesday. The Brooklyn Bridge can get packed with visitors and vendors, as seen here on Dec. 29. They're throwing them off the bridge! Street vendors will be completely banned from city bridges like the crowded Brooklyn Bridge starting on Jan. 3, city officials revealed late last week.
DOT Starts Work to Open Queensboro Roadway to Pedestrians
WEBJul 30, 2024 · Nearly 10,000 cyclists and pedestrians use the Queensboro each day, far outnumbering the fewer than 8,200 daily drivers who take the South Outer Roadway, DOT officials told a Manhattan community board in April. DOT has promised to open the south outer roadway to people on foot by " late summer," and …
Friday’s Headlines: Return of the Sinkhole Edition
WEBAug 23, 2024 · The Hudson River Greenway's uptown sinkhole has sunk once again. Parks Department officials shuttered 1.25 miles of the greenway after heavy rainfall over the weekend reopened the notorious crater around 187th Street, a spokesperson said. The closure marks the latest failure in the city's ongoing — and costly — …