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Will Rodriguez and Brewer Reappoint CB 12 Crank Jim “Honey Child” Berlin?
City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer can remove a barrier to safer streets in Upper Manhattan by relieving Jim Berlin of his spot on Community Board 12, which covers Washington Heights and Inwood.
March 6, 2015
CB 12 Committee Puts Parking Over Safety in Vote on Uptown Bike Lanes
DOT is proposing significant bicycle and pedestrian upgrades in Washington Heights, but the Manhattan Community Board 12 transportation committee wants to nibble away at a protected bike lane in the plan. The committee voted to support the DOT plan but with modifications that would shrink a proposed protected bike lane on Edgecombe Avenue to preserve parking.
March 5, 2015
Manhattan CB 3 Asks DOT for Protected Bikeway on Chrystie Street
In a unanimous 35-0 vote last night, Manhattan Community Board 3, which covers Chinatown and the Lower East Side, asked DOT to study a two-way protected bikeway for Chrystie Street, an important link to the Manhattan Bridge bike path.
February 26, 2015
West Harlem CB Members to DOT: Let Drivers Use Neighborhood as Shortcut
Riverside Drive in West Harlem is shaping up to be another test case for DOT's commitment to safety improvements, and whether the agency will allow ignorance of basic street design principles and fear of change guide its decisions.
February 20, 2015
CB 3 Committee Asks DOT for Protected Bikeway on Chrystie Street
The community board covering the Lower East Side and Chinatown is set to ask DOT to transform the Chrystie Street bike lane from barely visible stripes blocked by double-parked cars into a two-way protected bikeway along Sara D. Roosevelt Park, connecting the Manhattan Bridge with the Second Avenue protected bike lane.
February 13, 2015
Harlem CB Chair Complains Bus Lanes Have Slowed Her Cab Rides to Subway
Manhattan Community Board 10 Chair Henrietta Lyle thinks bus lanes have made it harder to get around Harlem. In a conversation with Streetsblog, Lyle disputed our coverage of Select Bus Service on 125th Street and waved off data from the Census and NYC DOT. She also dismissed WE ACT for Environmental Justice, which had worked with bus riders to advocate for Select Bus Service, as "not talking to the community."
February 10, 2015
UWS Residents to Brewer: No More Street Safety Obstructionists on CB 7
Will Gale Brewer reappoint noted street safety obstructionist Dan Zweig to Community Board 7? Families of traffic violence victims came to her State of the Borough address yesterday seeking an answer.
February 9, 2015
Who’s Against Better Sidewalks and Bus Stops? These People…
Bus bulbs are sidewalk extensions at bus stops that enable passengers to board without the driver pulling in and out of traffic. They save transit riders time, shorten crossing distances for pedestrians, and keep sidewalks from getting cluttered by bus stop furniture. Who could be against that?
February 6, 2015
Victims’ Families to Electeds: End the Obstruction of Safe Streets on the UWS
Years of frustration with the leadership of Manhattan Community Board 7 boiled over at a traffic safety forum on the Upper West Side last night. Twice during the event, neighborhood residents who lost family members to traffic violence called on elected officials not to reappoint Dan Zweig, who has co-chaired CB 7's transportation committee for at least 15 years and blocked or delayed key street safety proposals.
January 22, 2015