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Op-Ed: These Five Manhattan Streets Need Safety Fixes Now!
The city just fixed one killing zone. It needs to fix many, many more.
July 22, 2019
Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists
The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.
June 21, 2019
Cyclist Dead in Hit-and-Run Near Times Square [Second Update]
Police are hunting the truck driver who killed the cyclist near Times Square early Monday morning.
February 4, 2019
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Times Square is Still A Mammoth S#!+show — But NYC Can Learn from London
Streetfilms takes you inside the belly of the beast.
November 29, 2018
Streetfilms Recut: Jan Gehl’s 2005 Times Square Interview With 2018 Plaza Footage
When you look at Times Square and how much negative press the plazas received when they were implemented, then revisit it now and see how well it works, you realize anything is possible.
April 17, 2018
Eyes on the Street: NYPD Security Theater Revival in Times Square
Police barricades are back obstructing the Seventh Avenue bike lane in Times Square, which NYPD has made unrideable for most of its existence.
April 4, 2018
NYPD Keeps on Junking Up Midtown Streets With Fences and Barricades
While peer cities like London carve out more car-free space on their busiest streets for walking, NYPD is busy dropping metal fencing and concrete barriers all over Midtown, obstructing paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
December 4, 2017
Fortress New York: In the Name of Safety, NYPD Made Times Square Dangerous for Biking
In the aftermath of the fatal driving rampage through Times Square on May 18, the NYPD has shut down the raised bike lane that runs on Seventh Avenue between 46th Street and 42nd Street, commandeering it in the name of security.
June 1, 2017
Yesterday’s Times Square Toll Was Terrible — But So Is a Typical Day of NYC Traffic Violence
Given the high-profile location, the number of victims, and recent instances of people using vehicles to kill for ideology, it's understandable that yesterday's crash drew so much attention. But it's important to recognize that as terrible as the Times Square carnage was for a single incident, the same human toll occurs on a daily basis on NYC streets -- it's just dispersed across the city.
May 19, 2017
The Times Square Plazas Are No Longer a Construction Zone
Before 2009, Times Square was a hellish place to walk. Pedestrians outnumbered vehicles nine to one but were confined to just 10 percent of the street space. The creation of car-free plazas on Broadway changed the equation, and now those plazas are a permanent fixture of the street.
January 3, 2017
