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The High Bridge Is Open and People Are Walking On It! Here’s Proof…
Following a much-anticipated restoration that got a huge boost from the Bloomberg administration in 2007, the High Bridge is open to the public today for the first time in 45 years, providing a walking and biking connection between Washington Heights and the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx. Of course, Clarence Eckerson would never miss such a momentous occasion. Here are his photos from the day.
June 9, 2015
After 45 Years, the Car-Free High Bridge Reopens to the Public Tomorrow
The wait is just about over. Tomorrow the car-free High Bridge will be opened to the general public for the first time in 45 years.
June 8, 2015
Will the Parks Department Let Another Sinkhole Swallow the Greenway?
Remember the sinkhole in the Hudson River Greenway that took almost a year for the Parks Department to fix? Now there's another one.
June 4, 2015
Just in Time for Summer, Two Big Detours on the Hudson River Greenway
One of New York's busiest bicycle routes has been interrupted this summer by two detours where the city is asking riders to dismount and walk for blocks.
May 19, 2015
Get Ready For a Very Uncomfortable Year on the Brooklyn Bridge
Just as the weather warms and tourists once again mob the Brooklyn Bridge to admire the skyline and snap some photos, DOT has announced that construction work will narrow the one place on the bridge path that's even remotely close to comfortably wide.
April 1, 2015
MTA Tests Bike Racks on Bus Across Verrazano
An anonymously-sourced New York Post story yesterday might leave readers with the impression that new bike racks on the front of Staten Island buses will lead to late trips and a liability nightmare for the MTA. The MTA, however, says it's still studying the racks -- a tried-and-true amenity in every other big American city -- on a route crossing the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which currently has no bike path.
March 10, 2015
Cuomo to Spend Lion’s Share of NY Bank Settlement Windfall on Highways
One of the looming questions as Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled his budget agenda over the past few days has been how he'll divvy up the $5.4 billion windfall the state has reaped from bank settlements. At the State of the State address this afternoon, Cuomo revealed that the biggest chunk of that money will go to the Thruway Authority so highway drivers don't have to pay higher tolls.
January 21, 2015
Eyes on the Street: The Williamsburg Bridge Bike Path Freezes Over
Courtesy of Will Sherman, here's what the Williamsburg Bridge bike path -- one of the most important bike transportation connections in the city -- looked like this morning after the season's first snowfall. Icy and unbikeable. Sherman says he saw at least a few people take a spill.
December 11, 2014
Eyes on the Street: Cabbie on the Hudson River Greenway
The Hudson River Greenway is supposed to be a place where New Yorkers can walk and bike without fear of being hit by motorists. But this is not the case, as regular greenway users are well aware. Caught on camera today by Shelly Mossey, this cab driver was on the bikeway to the south of the NYPD tow pound.
November 4, 2014
The Growing Political Muscle of the Campaign for a Verrazano Bike/Ped Path
This Saturday, close to 100 people gathered at the Alice Austen House on the North Shore of Staten Island to demand a walking and biking path across the Verrazano Bridge. And in a sign of the campaign's growing political potency, several elected officials came out to announce their support for the idea, including Assembly Member Michael Cusick, State Senator Marty Golden, and City Council Member Vincent Gentile.
October 22, 2014