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Summer Streets Expands to All Boroughs; Still Ends Early, Though
网页4:15 PM EDT on June 12, 2023. Summer Streets, but more: Mayor Adams plans to expand the car-free corridors to all five boroughs in 2023. Photo: DOT. As the Beastie Boys said — you need Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten to make it happen. New York City's car-free "Summer Streets" program will extend beyond its traditional three Saturdays ...
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网页2024年5月24日 · The Definition of Great BRT Is Changing Fast — And Most of the U.S. Isn’t Measuring Up. A top international transportation organization is setting the record straight about what BRT is – and what it should aspire to be …
City’s ‘Open Streets’ Program Sparked Economic Growth During …
网页2022年10月25日 · The city analyzed tax sales before and during the pandemic from bars and restaurants on five open streets — Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, Pell and Doyers streets in Chinatown, E. 32nd Street in Koreatown, Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, and Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights — and found that businesses on open streets experienced more economic growth than those on comparable commercial ...
IGNORED, DISMISSED: How the NYPD Neglects 311 Complaints …
网页2021年10月21日 · On July 9, 2018, a complaint flowed into 311, New York City’s municipal services center: blocked bike lane, Central Park West. It was the 15th time in two years that someone had notified 311 about drivers parking illegally on the then-unprotected strips of white paint on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
SEE IT: Horrifying Crash at Notorious Queens Intersection Puts City …
网页2022年2月15日 · 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
网页2023年6月8日 · 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 them in low-income communities of color.
Op-Ed: The Second Avenue Subway’s Lessons for American Transit
网页2020年3月9日 · As metropolitan areas around the country consider major transit-expansion projects, New York’s Second Avenue subway provides a cautionary tale with valuable lessons for government administrators at all levels. Building just three stations — at a cost of $4.5 billion, nearly 90 years after the subway was first promised — was not exactly ...
Op-Ed: Stop the Runaway LaGuardia AirTrain
网页2020年1月3日 · Benjamin Kabak (@2avsagas) is the editor of Second Ave. Sagas, where he covers city transportation. The FAA’s next public meetings on the AirTrain are January 14 and 15 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott, 102-05 Ditmars Boulevard, East Elmhurst. Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org.
Only Part of the City is Bike-Friendly - Streetsblog New York City
网页2019年5月7日 · New York City is a great place to bike — but only in Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to a new report from bicycle advocacy group, PeopleForBikes. The group ranked the “most bikeable places” in America for the second year in a row, and only two of the five boroughs made the cut. The three boroughs that didn't are experiencing double-digit increases in fatalities and injuries to cyclists.