Central Park
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Central Park No Longer a Parking Lot for City Employees
According to a Streetsblog tipster, the Parks Dept. is finally cracking down on the numerous employees who have turned sections of Central Park into a parking lot. Below is a broadcast e-mail from Parks Dept. Assistant Commissioner and Senior Counselor Jack Linn to Parks Dept. employees. I have a call in to the Parks Dept. to verify this e-email. Here is the message that was reportedly sent out on Friday:
August 6, 2007
Rage on the Bikeway
The Boston Globe ran a front-page story yesterday about confrontations among users of the super-popular tree-lined Minuteman Bikeway in Boston. Police have already filed more reports of clashes between users of the bikeway this year than the previous two combined. As the Arlington Police Chief noted, "We have road rage, and now we have bikeway rage."
July 2, 2007
Parks Dept: Central Park Cyclists Must Stop at Traffic Signals
In Central Park the police will, supposedly, be handing out traffic tickets to cyclists who ride through red lights, even during car-free hours. Last year around this time, the police were running a bicyclist dragnet on Central Park's East Drive at about 98th Street (which strikes us as kind of incredible given the lack of police enforcement for motor vehicle moving violations throughout the rest of the city). While we have not heard any reports of bicyclist ticket blitzes this season, a Streetsblog reader wrote a letter of objection to Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe regarding the ticketing policy, and here is the reply that she received:
June 12, 2007
Reader Contributions
An apology to Streetsblog tipsters. Though our new, high-tech "Contribute to Streetsblog" page has been up and running for a few weeks, I've been having technical problems with the tips@streetsblog.org account and haven't really been checking reader mail very regularly. The problem is now fixed and I'm excavating lots of excellent contributions. I'll try to post a bunch of them this week and I promise we'll be better about this in the future, so please keep them coming. Here is the first batch:
December 11, 2006
Central Park(ing Lot)
Ed. Note: This has got to be the best item ever to come to us via a Streetsblog tipster. We love the photos! Got a post you'd like to share? You know what to do.
September 29, 2006
Central and Prospect Park Updates
Here are a couple of updates from the parks from Streetsblog tipsters. The first is a heads up for all you riders using Central Park:
July 26, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Central Park, Friday, June 23, 3:30 pm.
The following note just came across the Streetsblog transom, from Michael, a 29-year-old business-owner in Manhattan. Michael is a tri-athlete and trains daily in Central Park on his Softride bicycle. This is what happened to him on Friday:
June 26, 2006
Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006
One of the most influential urban thinkers, writers, and activists of the 20th century dies at age 89 in Toronto, Canada.
April 25, 2006