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DOT Won’t Take This Simple Step to Keep Police Cars Out of the Union Square Bike Lane
Ever since DOT added a two-way protected bike lane around the northern and eastern edges of Union Square last year, the project has been marred by NYPD parking near the intersection with 15th Street. Plastic posts were supposed to keep cars out where police park, but it looks like DOT has jettisoned that idea and has no plans to revive it.
August 3, 2017
Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes Around Union Square
DOT began installing new bike lanes leading to and around Union Square this week.
September 28, 2016
DOT Plans to Beef Up the Bike Network Around Union Square
The Manhattan bike network breaks down around Union Square, where southbound and northbound bike lanes currently dump riders into the chaotic confluence of 14th Street, Park Avenue, and Broadway. DOT presented a plan to fix some but not all of those gaps last night [PDF], garnering a unanimous vote in favor from Manhattan Community Board 5.
May 24, 2016
A Safer, Saner Lafayette Street Is on Its Way This Summer After CB 2 Vote
After a unanimous vote at its transportation committee earlier this month, Manhattan Community Board 2's full board last night unanimously passed a resolution supporting an upgrade of the buffered bike lane on Lafayette Street and Fourth Avenue to a protected bike lane. The project [PDF] runs from Spring Street to 14th Street and will include a northbound protected bike lane from Prince Street to 12th Street, pedestrian islands, and narrower car lanes to slow drivers.
March 21, 2014
CB 2 Panel Unanimously Supports Lafayette-4th Avenue Protected Bike Lane
In a unanimous 9-0 vote last night, Manhattan Community Board 2's transportation committee endorsed a DOT plan to upgrade a buffered bike lane on Lafayette Street and Fourth Avenue to a parking-protected lane, complete with new pedestrian islands, car lanes of an appropriate width for the city, and improved signal timing for pedestrians. The plan now moves to CB 2's full board meeting on March 20.
March 7, 2014
Union Square Skateboarder Was Killed on Rejected Pedestrian Plaza Space
The crash that killed a skateboarder near Union Square yesterday occurred on a block that DOT intended to use as a part-time pedestrian plaza until the agency capitulated to neighborhood NIMBYs.
November 21, 2012
NYPD: No Video of Driver Who Killed Roxana Sorina Buta
The woman killed by a hit-and-run truck driver at Union Square last week has been identified as Roxana Sorina Buta.
May 29, 2012
Pedestrian Killed by Hit-and-Run Truck Driver at Union Square This Morning
A 21-year-old woman was killed by the driver of a dump truck in a hit-and-run crash at Union Square early today.
May 24, 2012
One Year Later, Businesses and Residents Back Safer Union Square
It's been a year since DOT made more room for pedestrians and cyclists around Union Square, and a recent survey shows a neighborhood happy with its new public spaces.
September 14, 2011
It’s Opening Day for the Newest Stretch of Broadway’s Green Ribbon
One of Manhattan's premier public spaces is now safer, roomier, and livelier. DOT officially opened its improvements to the Union Square area today, including new pedestrian plazas and a continuation of the Broadway bike lane into a contraflow lane on the north side of the square.
September 22, 2010