SoHo
Streetsblog Basics
Eyes on the Street: How About a Slow Zone for Prince Street?
Brooklyn Spoke's Doug Gordon tweeted this photo Wednesday morning. This crash happened at the intersection of Prince and Crosby in Soho, which gets a ton of foot traffic and sees some of the highest bike counts in the city. It's only random chance that someone didn't get hit.
February 8, 2013
CB 2 Committee OKs Varick Street Traffic Calming, Punts on Bike Corrals
With two unanimous 9-0 votes, Manhattan Community Board 2's transportation committee took one step forward and one step back for livable streets last night, voting for safety fixes at a problematic intersection while punting on a proposal for bike corrals after local NIMBY extraordinaire Sean Sweeney showed up to squash it.
January 4, 2013
CB 2 Committee Votes to Bring NYC’s First “Green Wave” to Prince Street
Prince Street in Soho is a candidate to receive the city's first "green wave" -- traffic signals timed to align with cyclists' travel speeds -- after a vote of support from the Manhattan Community Board 2 transportation committee.
December 12, 2012
Tonight: CB 2 Seeks Changes to Sixth and Houston Following Deadly Crash
The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 is looking for input on how to improve safety at Sixth Avenue and Houston Street, the intersection where Jessica Dworkin was killed by a truck driver two weeks ago.
September 11, 2012
CB 2 Committee Signs Off on Slate of SoHo Pedestrian Improvements
The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 this week unanimously recommended that DOT implement two projects that would bring a menu of pedestrian safety improvements to SoHo, including a number of intersections near the Holland Tunnel.
June 14, 2012
Dan Fellegara Killed by Cab Driver in Manhattan, No Charges Filed
An outlaw committed suicide on Sixth Avenue early Sunday morning. At least that's how the death of Dan Fellegara was reported by the Post and Daily News.
April 30, 2012
In Hudson Square, Workers and Businesses Demand More Bike Racks
Workers in the Hudson Square area are demanding bike infrastructure and employers are helping them get it.
February 8, 2012
Spot the Celebrity Bike-Share Planner
It was another evening of hands-on bike-share station planning at Manhattan Community Board 2 last night, as New Yorkers hunched over maps of SoHo and Greenwich Village, marking the best places to site bike-share kiosks.
February 7, 2012
Hudson Square BID Puts Pedestrians First Near Entrance to Holland Tunnel
Every afternoon, all four lanes of Varick Street are packed solid with traffic heading to the Holland Tunnel. Drivers block crosswalks and cross-streets as they press forward, hoping the traffic would continue to move ahead and guessing wrong. On Friday afternoons, you can hear the honking from Streetsblog HQ, ten blocks over and twelve stories up.
August 11, 2011
Saudi Arabia on the Hudson: NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt
When Jasmijn Rijcken, the general manager of the VANMOOF bicycle company, traveled from Amsterdam to New York in late April, she was excited to see what she'd heard described as a city that had embraced bicycling. It wasn't NYC's new protected bike lanes that defined her ride through the city, however, but the New York Police Department, currently in the midst of a major crackdown against cyclists.
June 10, 2011