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WEBSep 6, 2024 · Huge Grant: Feds Send City $12M to Improve Post-Crash Analyses. Advocates have been seeking this for years: a single repository where the disparate findings from multiple agencies about road crashes will be stored and analyzed. Gersh Kuntzman. September 6, 2024. bus lanes.
Mayor Adams Puts Nearly $1 Billion Into Street Safety
WEBApr 23, 2022 · Mayor Adams on Saturday announced an historic nearly $1 billion investment towards funding the long-awaited Streets Master Plan, just days after dozens of advocates and pols rallied on the steps of City Hall to demand he spend what’s needed to create a safer, and more bike-, bus-, and pedestrian-friendly New York.. The City Council’s specific $3.1-billion, five-year budget ask apparently ...
Business Grew After Controversial Bike Lane Installed, Data Show
WEBSep 30, 2022 · Business has grown on the street since the city installed it four years ago. Photo: Jesse Coburn. When New York City proposed installing a protected bike lane on Skillman Avenue in Queens in 2017, the impact it would have on local businesses was certain — at least according to the plan’s critics. A devastating loss of customers.
CARLINA RIVERA: Here's Why My Open Streets Bill Will Make NYC …
WEBMay 1, 2021 · That’s when I first introduced legislation in the Council to launch an emergency open streets program, the idea being that we could close off certain streets to vehicular traffic and give that space to the people. Thankfully, the Department of Transportation listened and worked with the Council to …
Staff & Board - Streetsblog New York City
WEBStaff & Board. Gersh Kuntzman joined Streetsblog as editor in chief in July, 2018 after stints at both New York City tabloids ( Post, 1993-2000 and 2004-2007; Daily News, 2012-2017) and a long tenure as editor of The Brooklyn Paper (2007-2012). He is a veteran journalist and longtime bike commuter from his home in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
New York City's Pedestrian Death Crisis is Part of an Alarming and ...
WEBApr 8, 2022 · Talk about cold comfort: New York City's rise in pedestrian deaths is part of horrifying national trend. According to the latest numbers crunched by the Governors Highway Safety Association, our decade-long national pedestrian death crisis has worsened, with a double-digit percentage increase in deaths in the first six months of 2021 compared to the same period of 2020 nationally.
TONIGHT! City Will Unveil Long-Awaited Third Ave. Redesign to …
WEBOct 12, 2022 · Is New York the "City of Yes" — or the city of the same old, same old? We'll find out tonight when the Department of Transportation presents its plans for a redesign of Third Avenue in Manhattan, the Adams administration's first major from-the-ground-up street project — one that advocates will demonstrate whether the "City of …
Queens DA Declines to Prosecute Driver Who Killed Delivery Man
WEB8:32 PM EST on November 23, 2021. A makeshift memorial on 35th Street for Xing Long Lin. Melinda Katz has declined to prosecute his killer. File photo: Julianne Cuba. The woman who killed a delivery worker in Queens in April will walk away free, thanks to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, who quietly revealed last week that she will not ...
ON THE BIAS: NYPD’s ‘Walking While Black’ Ticketing Continues
WEB12:03 AM EDT on May 22, 2024. The NYPD’s well-documented history of disproportionately ticketing pedestrians of color for allegedly crossing against a traffic signal — known to some as "jaywalking" — continued in 2023, the latest data show. Over the full calendar year, NYPD officers wrote 467 summonses for violating Section 4-04 of the ...
EYES ON THE STREET: Temporary Bike Lane on Smith Street is Great
WEB5:54 PM EDT on March 31, 2020. The temporary bike lane on Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The city will double the number of temporary bike lanes it has erected in response to the pandemic, adding nine miles in Manhattan and Queens. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman. The temporary protected bike lane on Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn is an ...
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