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Let There Be Light: Notorious Dark Patch of West Side Greenway Gets Bright
New lights appeared earlier this week on the Hudson River Greenway between 59th and 72nd Streets, on a notoriously dark stretch beneath an elevated section of the West Side Highway.
March 1, 2013
By More Than 2-to-1, CB 7 Supports Columbus Avenue Bike Lane Extension
Last night, Manhattan Community Board 7 signaled its support for an extension of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane -- which currently runs one mile, from 96th to 77th Streets -- north to 110th Street and south to 69th Street [PDF]. The 26-11 vote (with one abstention) was a much wider margin than CB 7's 23-19-1 vote in favor of the initial Columbus Avenue bike lane segment back in 2010.
February 6, 2013
NYPD Won’t Touch Upper West Side Block Commandeered by Illegal Parking
A frustrated Upper West Side resident is looking to tame the rampant illegal parking and placard abuse on his block.
February 5, 2013
An Open Letter to CB 7 Transportation Chairs Dan Zweig and Andrew Albert
Mark Gorton is the publisher of Streetsblog and lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and four children. This is an edited version of a message he sent to Dan Zweig and Andrew Albert, the co-chairs of the Community Board 7 transportation committee, after neither of them voted in favor of extending the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane this Tuesday. (The project did clear the committee and will be going to the full board later this month.)
January 11, 2013
Leaving Co-Chairs Behind, CB 7 Committee Backs Columbus Avenue Bike Lane
After deadlocking in December, Manhattan Commmunity Board 7's transportation committee voted 7-2, with one abstention, to support the extension of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane before an overwhelmingly supportive crowd last night.
January 9, 2013
Tonight: Manhattan CB 7 Can Finally Advance the Columbus Avenue Bike Lane
Tonight, Manhattan Community Board 7 will again consider a DOT proposal to extend the existing Columbus Avenue bike lane, a mile-long segment between 77th and 96th Streets that's currently isolated from the rest of the city's network. If the committee supports the lane tonight, the proposal would go before the full board in February in time to be installed this spring.
January 8, 2013
A Few Data Points For the Next Time WNYC Talks Bike Lanes
This morning, WNYC's Brian Lehrer discussed the Columbus Avenue bike lane with reporter Kate Hinds. The show covered a fair amount of ground in a short amount of time, but gave a lot of airtime to a key assumption which has given cover to street safety opponents -- that small retailers in New York City need to maintain as much on-street parking as possible -- and let it go unchallenged for much of the segment.
December 20, 2012
Brewer: CB 7 Should Pass Columbus Bike Lane Reso; Stringer Non-Committal
Buried in the pile of uninformed New York Post letters to the editor following Steve Cuozzo's unhinged rant about the Columbus Avenue bike lane, intrepid readers found a note from Council Member Gale Brewer. "Bike lanes in my district are highly popular and strongly supported by the wider community," she wrote. "Expanding these benefits is the right thing to do."
December 18, 2012
Majority Favor Extending Columbus Bike Lane, But CB 7 Fails to Advance It
At least 150 people turned out to hear NYC DOT's proposal [PDF] to extend the bike lane to much of the rest of Columbus Avenue. More than two-thirds of the approximately 35 people who testified before the committee were strongly in favor of extending the lane north to 110th Street and south to where it could eventually link up with the Ninth Avenue bike lane.
December 12, 2012
Tonight: DOT Talks Protected Bike Lanes With Upper West Side’s CB 7
In the wake of last week's setback for efforts to bring more bike racks to the Upper West Side, Manhattan Community Board 7's transportation committee will hold a key meeting tonight about an issue on which its chairs have failed to take action: protected bike lanes and complete streets.
December 11, 2012