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DOT Proposes Filling the Gap in Second Avenue Protected Bike Lane
If you ride on the Second Avenue protected bike lane through Kips Bay, you know it can get a little hairy on the way downtown: The section between 23rd Street and 14th Street has no physical protection. On this stretch, the barrier of parked cars yields to a narrow painted buffer, creating an opportunity for illegal parking and offering minimal separation from speeding drivers. Under a DOT plan [PDF], that gap could be filled to create a continuous protected bike lane from 34th Street to 2nd Street.
September 17, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Driver Careens Onto Kips Bay Sidewalk, Smashes Store
Yesterday at approximately 6:00 p.m., the driver of a silver Volkswagen involved in a two-car crash barreled onto the sidewalk at the southeast corner of Second Avenue and 23rd Street, crashing into the front door of a Duane Reade pharmacy. FDNY tells Streetsblog that two people were transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Witnesses report that the injured were vehicle occupants, not pedestrians.
April 18, 2013
Developer J.D. Carlisle Yanks Support for Kips Bay Plaza, Killing Project
A two-block pedestrian plaza for a Second Avenue service road in Kips Bay, which was on track for implementation this summer, has been indefinitely delayed after adjacent property owner J.D. Carlisle sent a letter to DOT last week saying that it opposed the project.
March 28, 2013
Curb-Jumping Drivers Kill Women in Manhattan and Brooklyn; No Charges
Two pedestrians have been killed by curb-jumping drivers since Friday in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
February 25, 2013
Details on Fatal Midwood Crash Don’t Mesh With NYPD Victim-Blaming
The driver of a Ford van killed a 15-year-old girl in Midwood Tuesday. It was the second crash in which a child has died in city traffic in less than a week, and at least the fourth time a motorist has killed a pedestrian in the course of six days.
January 23, 2013
In Mistake-Marred Letter, CB 6 Lends Voice to East Side Bike-Share NIMBYs
Where can bike-share stations be located, according to the East Side's not-in-my-backyard crowd? Not Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, which is both too serene for bikes and too crowded with protestors. Not around the corner from the Israeli consulate, which is too fat a target for terrorists who, as Marcia Kramer could tell you, prefer to deliver explosives via bike. Not in areas that are too residential. Nor in areas with store entrances or medical offices. And if that leaves anywhere -- the sidewalk under a 42nd Street overpass was recommended as a model location -- no station should have more than ten docks.
July 23, 2012
Pietro Palumbo Killed by Driver in Manhattan, No Charges Filed
A pedestrian killed in Kips Bay last week has been identified as 76-year-old Pietro Palumbo.
May 22, 2012