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City To Close Bike Lane Gap in Lower Sixth Ave.
The Sixth Avenue bike lane will finally run from the Financial District to Central Park — with a few twists along the way.
October 1, 2024
PARKING MADNESS 2021: A Lower Manhattan Clash to Settle it Once and For All
It's the First Precinct vs. the Fifth Precinct.
March 11, 2021
DOT Installs Lower Manhattan Cargo Bike Zone Despite Community Board ‘Nay’
This is good news for anyone who supports safe streets, less congestion, less pollution and better use of public land, advocates say.
November 24, 2020
Manhattan Panel Kills Proposed Cargo Bike Corral … To Save Five Parking Spots
"A loss of parking spaces in Lower Manhattan is a travesty," says one community board member.
October 22, 2020
STREETFILMS: Manhattan Without Cars Points the Way to a More Livable City
"We can choose the next 'after,'" says activist Doug Gordon. These two films show why he's right.
May 5, 2020
Cops Finally Arrest Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed a Man Last Year
Law enforcement has finally arrested the hit-and-run driver they say killed a Queens man on a Manhattan sidewalk in October — but only for fleeing, not for the reckless driving that killed the victim in the first place.
March 6, 2019
Op-Ed: Varick Street Crossing Guards Are Telling a Tale of Congestion Pricing
The Times story on "adult crossing guards" reveals, though inadvertently, how our politicians have failed us.
December 28, 2018
Sign the Petition to Fix Canal Street, “Manhattan’s Boulevard of Death”
Canal Street is Manhattan's preeminent traffic sewer. A loud, dirty, menacing torrent of motorized traffic with cramped sidewalks and no designated space for bicycling, Canal gets pulverized by the "trucker's special," which gives motorists a free ride across Lower Manhattan via the untolled Manhattan Bridge to the untolled westbound Holland Tunnel.
February 9, 2018
NYPD: “No Criminality Suspected” After Turning Box Truck Driver Kills Cyclist in Tribeca
Yan Jindee was one of four cyclists killed or severely injured by New York City drivers in five days. Transportation Alternatives issued a statement calling on Mayor de Blasio to build more protected bike lanes.
September 15, 2017
Varick Street Gets a Granite Bike Path
As any bicyclist can tell you, a bumpy ride on cobblestones is no fun. In NYC, the DOT has implemented its first granite bikeway on one block of Varick Street to make it easier for cyclists and to keep them off the sidewalks.
May 12, 2015