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WEBSep 13, 2024 · ‘A Very Dangerous Job’: Dozens of NYC School Crossing Guards Injured by Drivers Since 2012, Records Show. As thousands of guards returned to street corners across the city last week for the reopening of public schools, records obtained by Streetsblog reveal the dangers that guards face on the job.
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WEBJan 3, 2022 · With that ammo, I filed an Article 78 lawsuit — named after a provision in the state’s Freedom of Information Law that enables judges to compel government entities that wrongfully withhold information. We were assigned an October 2021 court date, which we adjourned for November. Then, just before our appearance, I got an email with a zipped file from the NYC Law Department.
Third Ave. 'Complete Street' Adds Wide Bike Lane, But Still Keeps …
WEBDec 8, 2023 · The city’s redesign of Third Avenue adds a nice, wide protected bike path, but with its frequently blocked bus lane, the overhaul of nearly 40 blocks from Midtown to the Upper East Side doesn't really earn its "complete street" name.
Revel Scooters Quietly Creates New Manhattan Service Area, Plus …
WEBMar 26, 2020 · The company is also offering free memberships to health care workers during the crisis, just as Citi Bike is doing, too. Revel's announcement focused on its contributions to the emergency service workers, but the expansion into Manhattan is …
THE COMPROMISE: New Open Streets Group Seeks 'Linear Park' …
WEBMay 3, 2021 · The linear park petition is itself a compromise with drivers, who, a new Streetsblog analysis shows, have unfettered access to 67 percent of the public roadway space in Jackson Heights, while pedestrians have about 33 percent.Some drivers say the open street removes too much space from their hegemony over the roads, but the same Streetsblog analysis found that when the open street is in ...
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
The Bronx is Up: DOT Proposes Protected Bike Lane Under the …
WEBMay 18, 2021 · Now that’s a vision. A Department of Transportation plan to repurpose dangerous and ambiguous road space underneath a stretch of elevated train tracks in the Bronx into a protected bike lane should become the gold standard for the hundreds of miles of roads under elevated highways, rail lines and bridges across New York City, advocates say.. Last month, the DOT unveiled designs to Bronx ...
Julianne Cuba - Streetsblog New York City
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at @julcuba. Email […]
Your Unanswered Questions on the Interborough Express, Answered
WEBJan 24, 2023 · It's full speed ahead on the Interborough Express, Gov. Hochul and the MTA's planned project to provide a new transit connection between Brooklyn to Queens.The transit project — which will use an existing right of way between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights that runs through Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and Maspeth, is currently only used by freight rail — is slated to be part of the ...
There Is A Pedestrian Injury and Death Crisis Going On
WEBJun 20, 2024 · So far this year, 55 pedestrians have been killed and more than 4,000 injured. That's a health crisis. A 44-year-old woman standing on a busy Jackson Heights sidewalk gets mowed down by a reckless motorcyclist. A 78-year-old woman is killed by a driver on the Upper East Side. An 86-year-old man is run down by a city truck driver.