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November 2009
Fri 6: Safer, More Livable Streets for the East Side -- The Campaign Heats Up 3
October 2009
Wed 28: Second Life: NYC Parking Meters to Reincarnate as Bike Racks 3
Fri 23: Eyes on the Street: Crash Aftermath on First Avenue [Updated] 13
Thu 22: Last Night's CB Action: A Big Vote of Confidence for Protected Bike Lanes 7
Tue 13: Eyes on the Street: Columbia on the Lookout for Bike Thieves 6
September 2009
Fri 11: The Pedestrian Crush: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This 24
August 2009
Thu 27: Eyes on the Street: How Did This Happen? 27
Tue 18: District 1 Council Candidates: Safer Streets? Less Traffic? No Thanks. 9
Tue 11: Real-Time Bus Tracking Pilot Is Live on 34th Street [Updated] 16
June 2009
Mon 29: Fifth Avenue, 1909: So Long Promenade, Hello Motorway 14
Tue 23: DA Files Charge Against Cyclist Attacked by SUV Driver in 9th Ave Bike Lane 96
Thu 11: End Central Park Road Rage: Keep Cars Out 17
Tue 2: Tomorrow Morning, an NYC First: DA Candidates Debate Traffic Justice 1
May 2009
Wed 13: Manhattan DA Candidates to Debate Traffic Justice 7
Wed 6: Safer Streets Under Fire at Gerson "Town Hall" 29
April 2009
Thu 23: Anatomy of a (Legal) Hit-and-Run 7
Mon 20: Uptown Bike Network Gets Safer With New Buffered Path in Harlem 8
March 2009
Thu 5: Impromptu Shared Space Calms Soho Intersection 6
February 2009
Fri 13: Streetfilms: The New Madison Square 4
October 2008
Fri 24: Two Pedestrians Killed Today in Separate Hit-and-Run Crashes 0
Tue 14: Plenty of Changes Underway on Chrystie and Forsyth (But No Cycle Track) 9
Fri 3: Ninth Avenue Bike Path Expands Northward 28
September 2008
Tue 23: Broadway Boulevard Confirms: People Will Sit in Well-Placed Seats 14
Mon 22: Cops, Cabs and Trucks Ignore 34th Street SBS Lane 14
Fri 19: Park(ing) Day: More From Manhattan 1
Fri 19: More Park(ing) Pics: The Art of Sitting in the Street 4
Mon 15: DOT, MTA Launch 34th Street Select Bus Service Today 4
Wed 10: Manhattan CB3 to Discuss Important Street Safety Measures Tonight 0
Fri 5: Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan to Hold 11:00 Madison Square Presser 1
August 2008
Tue 26: In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming 20
Mon 11: What Does Summer Streets Mean for Business? 21
Mon 11: Streetfilms: Summer Streets 2008 25
Mon 4: Eyes on the Street: 34th Street Runs Red With Paint 17
July 2008
Thu 17: Touring the East Side Access Tunnel, Surrounded By Schist 19
Fri 11: Streetfilms: New York Bike-Share, Now in Previews 0
Mon 7: Eyes on the Street: Red Means "Stop" ... in the Bus Lane 12
Thu 3: Happy Independence Day 13
Thu 3: Rider Report: Select Bus Service Shaves Trip Time 16
June 2008
Mon 30: Bus Riders Warm to Select Bus Service, Drivers Love Red Parking Lane 34
Tue 24: Streetfilms: Hiking the Heights 0
Mon 23: "Don't Block the Box" Bill Clears Albany 22
Wed 18: Eyes on the Street: Madison Square, Re-Squared 7
Mon 16: Car-Free Saturdays Will Open Path For Peds and Bikes From City Hall to 72nd 21
Mon 16: DOT Gives Its Regards to Broadway 26
Thu 12: Petrosino Square to Expand Into Lafayette Street 8
May 2008
Thu 29: DOT Previews Big Plans at Greenway Summit 19
Tue 27: Want Separated Lanes on Chrystie Street? Tonight's Your Night. 2
Fri 23: Speak Up for Chrystie Street Improvements on Tuesday 14
Tue 20: Paragon, Patagonia Promote Pedaling, Pedestrianism 12
Wed 14: DOT to Present Manhattan Bridge Plans to CB 3 Tonight 10
April 2008
Mon 28: Survey Finds New Yorkers Anxious About Congestion and Safety 13
Wed 23: Memorial Ride Tonight for Two Manhattan Cyclists 9
Thu 17: A Transit Miracle on 34th Street 49
Tue 15: Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate 20
Tue 15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16
Fri 4: What Glick's District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing 21
Thu 3: Times Building Continues to Discourage Bike Commuting 11
March 2008
Wed 26: Is CB 8 Angling to Get Rid of Bike Lanes on 91st Street? 9
Tue 25: NYC's First Bus Rapid Transit Line Debuts in the Bronx 15
Tue 25: Eyes on the Street: Portland Bike Boxes 8
Tue 25: Citizens Hammer NYPD Commissioner Kelly on Street Safety 13
Mon 24: Rev. Billy Preaches Bikes & Transit at the NYC Auto Show 5
Wed 19: Assembly Member Deborah Glick: Angry Fence-Sitter 29
Mon 17: DOT Study Measures Lower Manhattan Placard Abuse 4
Fri 14: Eyes on the Street: Taking the Lane 11
Tue 11: Hudson River Greenway Bike Path Sabotaged 9
Fri 7: Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents 25
Thu 6: Is an NYPD Bike Crackdown Underway? 10
Mon 3: Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks. 17
February 2008
Thu 28: Streetfilms: Excuses 6
Wed 27: A Conversation About New York Streets -- Get In Free 0
Tue 26: Driver-Nannies Keep Kids and Parents Safe From Transit 33
Fri 15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 29
Thu 14: Truck Driver Charged for Killing Two Pedestrians 16
Mon 4: City Subsidizing Boater Parking 10
January 2008
Thu 31: Word on the Street: Pricing "Like Charging You to Breathe" 1
Wed 30: Fate of Pier 40 Could Be Determined Tomorrow 3
Thu 17: NYPD Tow Pound is Still a Major Source of Greenway Danger 15
Fri 11: Another New Bike Shelter 12
Fri 11: Does Times Real Estate VP's "Joke" Betray Anti-Bike Bias? 13
Tue 8: Nature's Traffic Count 7
Mon 7: Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride Marks Another Year of Loss 1
Fri 4: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
Fri 4: Greenway Killer is Sentenced 3½ to 10½ Years 9
Thu 3: The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking 21
December 2007
Fri 21: Merry Christmas Chinatown 8
Thu 20: The One Carbon Tax That Couldn't 13
Wed 19: Eyes on the Street: Snow Day 2
Mon 17: Will Silver Defer to City Council on Congestion Pricing? 29
Fri 14: Daily News to Deceased Cyclists: "Your Fault." 7
Wed 12: Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable 28
Tue 11: Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion 19
Mon 10: More Boring Photos 6
Mon 10: Shoup on Lehrer 4
Fri 7: Parking Guru Donald Shoup Coming to Town Monday 3
Fri 7: Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard 5
Thu 6: New York Times Employees Say Renzo Forgot the Bike Parking 52
Wed 5: Cyclist Doored, Killed by Truck in Midtown 78
Wed 5: Chinatown Placard Abusers Get the Hook 23
Wed 5: The Rumble Underfoot at 60th Street 1
Mon 3: Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks 15
Mon 3: This is the Pedestrian Refuge Area That CB8 Refused to Protect 41
November 2007
Wed 28: $115 $230 Summons for NASCAR Driver #19 Elliott Sadler 12
Wed 28: New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars 35
Tue 27: NYPD Emerges as New Focus for NYC's Livable Streets Movement 38
Fri 16: Morgenthau & NYPD Are "Dismissive" of Ped Fatality Questions 20
Wed 14: Stolen Bike Rescued by Online Geeks 7
Wed 14: Brian Ketcham Proposes a "Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix" 41
Mon 12: Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists 18
Wed 7: StreetFilms: Upper West Side Streets Renaissance With Jan Gehl 9
Wed 7: Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge 71
Tue 6: Upper West Side Renaissance on WNYC 3
Tue 6: Hell's Kitchen Parking Plan Continues to Confound 5
Tue 6: Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM 5
Fri 2: "A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side" 2
Thu 1: Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison 18
October 2007
Wed 31: Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard 11
Wed 31: RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan's Upper West Side 2
Tue 30: The M23 Bus Earns the 2007 Pokey Award 8
Fri 26: Congestion Pricing Gets a Warm Reception in Manhattan 10
Wed 24: Senator Duane Takes a Swipe at DOT for 9th Ave. Bike Lane 16
Tue 23: Silver: "We're Not Doing Gansevoort Today." 10
Mon 22: The Times Wants Your Traffic Ideas 4
Mon 22: Silver Stalls Plan to Reduce Garbage Truck Traffic 23
Mon 22: Times Calls for End to Free Parking Monopoly 46
Fri 19: Senator Krueger "Extremely Disturbed" by Pricing Hearing Schedule 2
Thu 18: Tykes on Bikes 1
Tue 16: DOT Unveils Sidewalk Compass Markings 15
Wed 10: Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don't Care? 28
Tue 9: Truck Drivers Confusing New Cycle Track for Unloading Zone 80
Mon 8: Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts 5
Mon 8: "En-Suite" Parking, for the Discerning Antisocial Urbanite 16
Fri 5: Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform 35
Thu 4: Memorials Held for Thomson and Miller 0
Thu 4: A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future" 35
Wed 3: New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place 17
September 2007
Fri 28: Eyes on the Street: 34th Precinct Leads by Example 11
Thu 27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7
Thu 27: 34th Precinct Promises Action on Broadway and Dongan 0
Thu 27: Fifth Avenue Will Get a New Buffered Bike Lane 16
Tue 25: DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders 3
Fri 21: More Park(ing) Day Photos 4
Thu 20: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path 137
Thu 13: Garages Yield to Human-Oriented Development 4
Wed 12: A Streets Renaissance in Lower Manhattan 10
Wed 12: Gridlock Sam Offers Four Ideas to Cut Traffic Congestion 16
Mon 10: MTA Marks 75 Years of A Train Service 6
Fri 7: Last Day for High Bridge Survey 6
Thu 6: Bicycles Are the New NYC "It Girl" Fashion Accessory 35
Tue 4: Safety City: Where Cars Rule! 15
August 2007
Mon 27: Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach 18
Fri 24: First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan 18
Wed 22: Bikes Are Traffic, Too 17
Tue 21: Officer Convicted in Beating Was Handing Off Parking Placard 2
Tue 21: Speak Up for an Accessible Car-Free High Bridge 3
Thu 16: As He Likes It: Weprin, and His Car, in the Park 12
Thu 16: Henry Hudson Bridge Closed Until 2010, Unless You're In a Car 5
Thu 16: Pedicabs Protest New Regulations 9
Thu 16: City Still Sending Mixed Signals on Bike Parking 1
Tue 14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
Mon 13: Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing 4
Mon 13: Thank You for the Extra Car-Free Hour, And... 4
Fri 10: In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge 10
Tue 7: City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility 15
Tue 7: Congestion Pricing Questions the Mayor Will Need to Answer 23
Fri 3: Manhattan Bridge Bikeway to Reopen on Monday 12
Wed 1: Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side 17
Wed 1: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3
Wed 1: City Backpedals, Says it is Now Making Space for Employee Bikes 4
July 2007
Tue 31: Official Statement on Central Park Car-Free Hours Increase 30
Mon 30: DOT Expands Car-Free Time in Central Park by One Hour 24
Wed 25: NYC Government Office Cracks Down on Indoor Bike Parking 13
Wed 25: Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update 0
Thu 19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
Mon 16: State Assembly Meeting in Manhattan to Talk Congestion Pricing 4
Fri 13: DOT Media Blitz Forthcoming 16
Mon 9: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
Mon 9: Bloomberg Stadium Foes Urge Silver to Support Pricing 4
Thu 5: Slow Going for New Bus Lanes 11
Wed 4: Happy Fourth of July 0
Mon 2: Rage on the Bikeway 28
June 2007
Fri 29: O'Donnell Supports PlaNYC, but Congestion Pricing? 5
Thu 28: David Byrne on Bicycling in NYC 8
Thu 28: StreetFilms Cyclist of the Month 4
Wed 27: Finally, Market Rates for Manhattan Street Parking 20
Fri 22: Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover 9
Thu 21: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff: Bike Commuter 0
Thu 21: Gov't Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center 3
Thu 21: Eyes on the Street: Too Little Too Late on the FDR 9
Tue 19: Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly? 42
Tue 19: New "Bike Boxes" Send Cyclists to the Front of the Line 32
Wed 13: Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront 13
Fri 8: 96th St. Subway Station and Sidewalk Reduction Moving Ahead 3
Wed 6: CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen 4
Tue 5: T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative 10
Tue 5: NYPD Raid Nets Bikes and Bystanders 31
Fri 1: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26
May 2007
Thu 31: Deborah Glick: Devil's in the Details of Congestion Pricing 9
Wed 30: The 'Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous? 12
Tue 29: 86th Street: The Congestion Pricing Battle Line 10
Fri 25: Happy Memorial Day Weekend 1
Wed 23: Jessica is Lappin' up the Congestion Pricing Anxiety 12
Mon 21: The Fastest Way to Get to New Jersey 7
Fri 18: Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941 6
Fri 18: Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design 6
Thu 17: Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15
Wed 16: Gridlock Sam on Car-Free Central Park 0
Wed 16: Days Numbered for City Parking Privileges? 3
Tue 15: The Quick and Easy First Step to a "Greater, Greener New York" 14
Tue 15: Eyes on the Street: Commissioner Sadik-Khan's Commute 19
Mon 14: Anti-Pricing Council Member Has Pro-Parking Industry Fans 7
Thu 10: Where Do New York City Bike Commuters Come From? 17
Mon 7: Sadik-Khan and Congestion Pricing: Ready for Prime Time 30
Mon 7: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4
Mon 7: Eyes on the Street: Five Borough Bike Tour 4
April 2007
Fri 27: Bus Bulbs Useless Without Enforcement 10
Wed 25: Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due 8
Tue 24: Electeds React to Congestion Pricing 19
Mon 23: Council Overrides Pedicab Veto 17
Fri 20: CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes 2
Wed 18: SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes 19
Wed 18: Bus Bulbs Are Blooming 15
Wed 18: Are Phone Booths on Ninth Avenue a Pedestrian Menace? 0
Tue 17: Pedi Politics 6
Mon 16: Eyes on the Street: Horse Lane? 2
Mon 16: Overheard on the Bus: NYC Bicyclists Losing the PR War 26
Wed 11: Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT's Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan 1
Tue 10: Eyes on the Street: Inspector Yee Tows His Own 9
Mon 9: Take Action: Support the Prince/Bleecker Bike Route Plan 27
Thu 5: Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection 2
Wed 4: Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic 8
March 2007
Wed 21: When Traffic Enforcement Doesn't Include Moving Violations 11
Fri 16: DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St. 29
Fri 16: New Sheriff in Chinatown 4
Mon 12: Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan 1
Mon 12: DOT Proposes Solution to Houston Street Cycling Danger 59
Sun 11: Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway 10
Thu 8: The New York City Parking Boom 14
Thu 1: There's No Such Thing as "Free Parking" 20
Thu 1: City Council Passes New Pedicab Regulations 8
February 2007
Wed 28: City Council Set To Vote on Pedicabs Today 7
Mon 26: 3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You? 5
Mon 26: NYC on Alert for Motor Vehicle-Based "Noise Terrorism" 4
Wed 21: Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway? 13
Wed 21: 34th Street Partnership Explains the Icey Snow in the Bike Lane 4
Tue 20: Quick, Someone Get Me a Shovel 8
Wed 14: Pedicab Rally in the News 8
Tue 13: Today's Rally Against Pedicab Regulations 8
Wed 7: Is a 1.3 mph Increase in Crosstown Traffic Speed "Innovative?" 6
January 2007
Thu 11: Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices 11
Wed 10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20
Mon 8: Bloomberg on Bicycling 24
Thu 4: Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety 32
December 2006
Sun 31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
Wed 20: Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety 9
Sun 10: Streetfilms: Memorial for Eric Ng 10
Wed 6: Manhattan BP Stringer Calls on NYC to Seek Federal Funds 5
Tue 5: Eric Ng Memorial Bike Ride This Saturday 0
Sat 2: Drunk Driver Kills Cyclist on Hudson River Greenway 32
November 2006
Wed 29: SUV Attack Update 2 10
Tue 28: Curbside Space Wars 8
Tue 28: SUV Attack Update 8
Wed 22: Sacrificing Central Park to Appease the Traffic Gods 11
Wed 22: This Morning's Commute: The Ian Goldman Affair 55
Mon 20: The Traffic is the Mitigation 10
Tue 14: "Freak Accident" That Seems to be Happening Regularly 2
Thu 9: DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway 7
Wed 8: Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years 1
Mon 6: Queensboro Bridge Area Safety Under Scrutiny 0
October 2006
Tue 24: Eyes on the Street: SoHo 8
Mon 23: A New Vision for the Meatpacking District 5
Wed 18: Cool Thing: Subway Map With Entrances 1
Tue 17: Thursday's Transpo Conference: A Call for Reform 8
Fri 13: Ride a Bike & Get the World's Best Cookie Half-Price 13
Wed 11: New Bike Markings on the Upper West Side 6
Wed 11: Word on the Street 3
Wed 11: Separated at Birth? 5
Tue 10: Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday 4
Mon 9: NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers 1
September 2006
Thu 21: Parking it in Midtown 21
Wed 20: Eyes on the Street: 8th Avenue 5
Wed 20: Eyes on the Street: Hudson River Greenway 0
Fri 8: Street Films: Hell's Kitchen Miracle Ticket 6
Fri 8: Midtown's Mini-Plaza 13
Tue 5: Cops Threaten Reporter Over Parking Scandal Report 5
August 2006
Thu 31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
Fri 25: Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes 3
Fri 25: Brooklyn Bridge's SUV Ban Hidden in Plain Sight 12
Tue 15: Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets 7
Mon 14: New York Times Under-Reports Cyclist Fatalities 5
Thu 10: Trucker Kills Cyclist on Ninth Avenue and 29th Street 11
Thu 10: Another Critical Mass Report from July 1
Wed 9: Where to Park a Vespa in NYC? 11
Tue 8: Street Films: Gridlock Sam on Govt Employee Parking Abuse 3
Mon 7: Eyes on the Street: Friday, August 4, 2006 3
July 2006
Fri 28: We're in Good Hands With Allstate 0
Thu 27: Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks 14
Tue 25: Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity 4
Tue 25: Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later 0
Thu 20: Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life 9
Wed 12: Protecting Public Space by Banishing People 1
Fri 7: Central Park Moonlight Ride 0
Fri 7: The $139 Million Pedestrian and Bike Path 1
Fri 7: Sidewalk Security on Madison Avenue 1
Thu 6: Canal Street Edge: From Bucolic to Frenetic 0
Thu 6: Upper Manhattan Bike Tour 0
Thu 6: Critical Mass Manhattan 0
June 2006
Wed 28: Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration 0
Wed 28: Jane Jacobs Tribute Tonight 1
Tue 27: Memorial Ride 0
Tue 27: Derek Lake, 23. 6
Tue 27: Improper Steel Plate May Have Caused Fatal Crash 0
Tue 27: Streetfilms: Broadway & Houston 0
Mon 26: Eyes on the Street: Central Park, Friday, June 23, 3:30 pm. 5
Mon 26: Houston Street: Bike Boulevard of Death? 1