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CB 7 Committee Wants More Concrete Pedestrian Islands in Amsterdam Ave Redesign
DOT reps attributed the absence of concrete to a shortage of resources.
July 12, 2018
Safer Bikeways Slated for Columbus Circle and Amsterdam Avenue
The Manhattan Community Board 4 transportation committee endorsed the projects unanimously.
June 21, 2018
Helen Rosenthal Isn’t Leveling With Her Constituents About E-Bikes
Rosenthal, a vocal supporter of de Blasio's e-bike crackdown, is exaggerating the e-bike threat to her constituents and misrepresenting the way NYPD is conducting enforcement.
January 26, 2018
E-Bikes Are Banned in NYC, But Crush a Man With an Illegal Big Rig and de Blasio Won’t Care
While Mayor de Blasio and NYPD punish delivery workers for riding electric bicycles, drivers who run people over with semi trucks are not being penalized in any way, even when the truck is too large to be operated legally on city streets.
January 23, 2018
Manhattan CB 7 to DOT: Make Broadway a Safe Neighborhood Street Instead of a Speedway
Broadway still feels like a highway where it cuts through one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the city.
December 7, 2017
Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing Clears Community Board 7
The vote means that several hundred car storage slots on West 108th Street will almost certainly give way to hundreds of subsidized apartments.
December 6, 2017
CB 7 Committees Endorse Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing
The project would demolish two garages with 675 parking spaces to make room for about 200 additional subsidized housing units.
November 22, 2017
CB 7 to DOT: Unprotected Bike Lanes Still Not Good Enough for 110th Street
For the second time this year, DOT came to Manhattan Community Board 7 with a redesign of 110th Street that doesn't include protected bike lanes. And for the second time, board members told DOT to go back to the drawing board.
November 15, 2017
Car Storage Clashes Against Affordable Housing on the Upper West Side
Which do New Yorkers value more: parking garages to store cars or apartments to house neighbors? Rarely is the question framed as starkly as with the plan to demolish two city-owned parking garages and build 304 units of subsidized housing on 108th Street.
October 31, 2017
Eyes on the Street: Leading Bicycle Intervals and Semi-Protected Intersections
Readers are spying new DOT intersection treatments for bikeways popping up in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
October 27, 2017
