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Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes
A Streetsblog tipster writes in with a nice slice-of-life dispatch:
July 25, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Weekend Edition
I recently took this boat, a water taxi, from Red Hook to South Street Seaport. Landing at the Seaport after having just been in Red Hook about five minutes earlier gives one an odd supernatural sense of having been teleported.
July 21, 2006
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Ozone Alert in New York City: We warn children, the
elderly and people with heart and lung conditions to keep off of city
streets until air quality has improved. We suggest that motorists might use mass transit.
July 17, 2006
Protecting Public Space by Banishing People
Here is the latest in Jeff Zupan's photo series on security barricades and their effect on New York City street life:
July 12, 2006
Bus Stop. Hamburg, Germany
What it looks like when a city decides that bus riders can and should have a first-class transportation system.
July 12, 2006
Sidewalk Security on Madison Avenue
In his spare time, StreetsBlog's new contributor, Jeff Zupan from the Regional Plan Association is roaming Manhattan snapping photos of security barricades and their impact on the city's street life. It's a big honor to have Jeff publishing here.
July 7, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bridge, Thurs. June 29, 8:45 am
Manhattan-bound on the Brooklyn Bridge this morning,
on the way to Transportation Alternatives' City Hall rally. The traffic
jam on the right, the smog-cloaked city in the background, the sparsely
populated bike path -- this is what a broken transportation system
looks like.
June 29, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Central Park, Friday, June 23, 3:30 pm.
The following note just came across the Streetsblog transom, from Michael, a 29-year-old business-owner in Manhattan. Michael is a tri-athlete and trains daily in Central Park on his Softride bicycle. This is what happened to him on Friday:
June 26, 2006