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NYPD: No ROW Charge for Driver Who Killed Moshe Grun in UWS Crosswalk
Will NYPD file Right of Way Law charges against a driver who fatally struck Moshe Grun in an Upper West Side crosswalk? A sergeant from the 20th Precinct wouldn't answer that question, denying Grun had died before deferring to an investigator who was on vacation.
June 16, 2015
CB 7 Committee Asks DOT for Amsterdam Protected Bike Lane “Immediately”
On Tuesday, the Manhattan Community Board 7 transportation committee unanimously passed a resolution asking DOT to immediately install a protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue in the neighborhood.
June 11, 2015
CB 7 Chair Says Its Street Safety Task Force Isn’t About Street Safety
At the beginning of 2014, drivers killed three people -- Cooper Stock, Alexander Shear, and Samantha Lee -- on the Upper West Side in a matter of days. Neighbors turned out by the hundreds at vigils for the victims, and came out again to pack meetings demanding action. In response, Community Board 7 formed a street safety task force. More than a year later, there's little to show for it, and now CB 7 chair Elizabeth Caputo says the task force wasn't created to tackle street safety issues in the first place.
May 14, 2015
Upper West Siders to DOT: Citi Bike Stations Need to Be Closer Together
Citi Bike is coming to the Upper West Side, but the expansion map DOT revealed last night has big gaps between stations. Like the map for the Upper East Side, the UWS plan calls for fewer stations per square mile than the current Citi Bike service area.
May 13, 2015
Citi Bike Could Expand to 86th Street This Summer
It looks like some parts of Manhattan north of 59th Street could be getting Citi Bike sooner than previously expected.
May 4, 2015
Helen Rosenthal Won’t Say Why She Reappointed Street Safety Foe to CB 7
Members of Families For Safe Streets asked Council Member Helen Rosenthal at a town hall meeting last night why she reappointed street safety foe and longtime Community Board 7 transportation committee co-chair Dan Zweig. But Rosenthal refused to answer questions from Upper West Siders who have lost loved ones to traffic violence.
April 28, 2015
Helen Rosenthal Asks DOT to Install Protected Bike Lane on Amsterdam Ave
Council Member Helen Rosenthal has come out strongly for a protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue, sending a letter to DOT this week asking for a plan to calm traffic and provide a northbound complement to the Columbus Avenue bike lane.
April 10, 2015
New Columbus Avenue Design: Protected Bike Lane By David H. Koch Theater
The Columbus Avenue bike lane will provide a more continuous protected route past Lincoln Center under a revised DOT proposal that got a thumbs up from Manhattan Community Board 7's transportation committee Tuesday night [PDF].
February 12, 2015
UWS Residents to Brewer: No More Street Safety Obstructionists on CB 7
Will Gale Brewer reappoint noted street safety obstructionist Dan Zweig to Community Board 7? Families of traffic violence victims came to her State of the Borough address yesterday seeking an answer.
February 9, 2015