Inwood
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Support For Neighborhood Slow Zones Keeps on Growing
Interest continues to grow in the Department of Transportation's slow speed zones, which place 20 mph speed limits on residential streets. One month after the application deadline for the program, community boards across the city continue to pass resolutions in support of slow zones.
March 2, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Next-Gen No Standing Signs in Inwood
The city recently replaced four parking spots at Park Terrace West and W. 218th Street, in Inwood, with a no standing zone. The 34th Precinct reportedly requested the change to give drivers exiting Park Terrace West, a northbound one-way street, a better view of east-west traffic on 218th.
February 6, 2012
Eyes on the Street: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
A few weeks ago muni-meters began popping up on the streets of Inwood. Naturally, this made me wonder if the city had considered turning the neighborhood's defunct coin-op meters into bike racks.
December 1, 2011
City Says Decrepit Inwood Step-Street on Track for Rehab
It was supposed to happen circa 2005. Then in 2009. Now the city says the restoration of a crumbling block-long staircase that serves as a pedestrian-only street in Inwood will be finished by summer 2013.
October 21, 2011
Tonight: Upper Manhattanites Finally Get to Talk About Bike Lanes
After years of delays, a citizen-generated plan for a separated bike path in Upper Manhattan will get an audience tonight.
June 16, 2011
Three Years In, Might the Dyckman Bike Path Finally Get a Hearing?
It's been over three years since residents of Inwood first proposed a separated bike path for Dyckman/200th Street, one that would link Manhattan's east- and west-side Greenways and help foster a safer and more humane environment for neighborhood cyclists and pedestrians. So persistent are advocates of the project, known informally as the "Dyckman Greenway Connector," that they persuaded the notoriously auto-centric Community Board 12 to ask DOT for a feasibility study.
May 26, 2011
City Shows Inwood Some Much-Needed Livable Streets Love
It's no exaggeration to say that, by and large, the streets of Inwood are a free-for-all. With its two free Harlem River bridges, the neighborhood is a prime cut-through for toll-shopping drivers passing to and from the Bronx and Westchester, and is a seasonal haven for preening boom-car owners and speeding motorcyclists. Wide intersections and streets meeting at odd angles make for perilous crossings. Bike lanes are extremely scarce.
May 4, 2011
CB 12 Squabbling Delays Upper Manhattan Bike Lane Discussion
Build bike lanes? Manhattan's Community Board 12 doesn't even want to talk about bike lanes.
November 5, 2010
Support for Congestion Pricing, Not Harlem River Tolls, at SD 31 Debate
Five candidates vying to become Upper Manhattan's next state senator met in the 168th Street Armory last night to make their case to the car-free voters of Riverdale, Inwood, Washington Heights, West Harlem, and the Upper West Side. At a debate sponsored by Transportation Alternatives and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, important differences emerged over how best to solve the MTA's budget crisis and make streets safe for pedestrians and cyclists.
September 8, 2010