Opinion: Putting the lie to YIMBY mantra ‘Build, baby, build!’… Facts show unbridled market-rate development spurs gentrification
BY ANDREW BERMAN | Our nation’s politics in the 21st century have been roiled by pervasive misinformation campaigns — about stolen elections, conspiracy theories, vaccine...
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Not sustainable: People won’t take even small steps to help save the planet
BY MICHELE HERMAN | My top issue is how to avoid planetary catastrophe. Everything else is a subset: traffic and transit, bike lanes, the freakish...
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‘We want our streets back!’ Shed foes sue to shut down ‘lawless’ outdoor dining program — now
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Shed the sheds — as in, right now! Residents from across the city have filed an Article 78 lawsuit to end...
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Opinion: Carlina Rivera… A view from the Lower East Side of a District 10 candidate
BY PAT ARNOW | Want to know how District 10 Congressional candidate Carlina Rivera would govern? Check out two ways this city councilmember has affected...
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Parks beefs up PEP officers’ presence in Washington Square after supervisor’s beatdown in vendors table dispute
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | There are more PEP officers and fewer vendors tables in Washington Square Park after a violent incident two Fridays ago that...
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Posts tagged as “bike lanes”

University Place bike boulevard moved to back burner

Momentum seems to have slowed for the push for a bike boulevard on University Place. (Photo by The Village Sun)

University Place bike boulevard moved to back burner

November 16, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The city has slammed the brakes on a planned virtual workshop for a possible University Place bike boulevard — and, in…

Pol: Avenue C dining sheds threaten cyclists’ safety

Assemblymember Harvey Epstein, left, was joined on a walk-through of the Avenue C bike lane by Ed Pincar, the Manhattan borough D.O.T. commissioner, right. (Harvey Epstein / Twitter)

Pol: Avenue C dining sheds threaten cyclists’ safety

October 25, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The Avenue C bike lane is “a mess.” So says a local politician who did a walk-through of it with a…

Bike lane was…gone with the wind

Cyclists were dangerously forced to merge into car traffic. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Bike lane was…gone with the wind

March 27, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Warning about high winds Upstate on Friday, Governor Cuomo ordered a vaccination center in Rochester closed for the day. But…

Polly Trottenberg announces she’s rolling on from D.O.T.

D.O.T. Commissioner Polly Trottenberg at an open house in January 2018 on the plan to fully close the L train's Canarsie tunnel for repairs of damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. After Governor Cuomo intervened, the plan was revised so that some subway service was maintained during the repairs. (Courtesy NYC Dept. of Transportation)

Polly Trottenberg announces she’s rolling on from D.O.T.

November 24, 2020

Polly Trottenberg, the city’s Department of Transportation commissioner, on Monday announced her resignation from the de Blasio administration, effective in early December. Trottenberg has led…

Delineator dilemma: D.O.T. says ‘post it’ on W. 13th St.

Newly installed bike-lane delineators on W. 13th St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. near the former E. 13th St. Presbyterian Church. Down the block, brown paint in the buffer zone marks where a drop-off space has been left for City and Country School. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Delineator dilemma: D.O.T. says ‘post it’ on W. 13th St.

March 6, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated March 9, 7:30 p.m.: Don’t fence us in — or out! Many residents on 12th and 13th Sts. are…