The city is considering changes to the “Bowtie” intersection where Columbus Avenue and Broadway come together below 65th street. At a presentation on Wednesday night, a rep from the Department of Transportation is expected to lay out options for the intersection. It’s a tricky area because of all the traffic coming together — 65th street and Columbus/Brroadway has been tagged as one of the most dangerous intersections in the neighborhood.
The DOT had discussed running the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane through the bowtie, but it’s not yet clear how that will happen. Without some sort of lane in that area, the Columbus Avenue lane would stop at 65th and then start up again at 8th Avenue and 58th street.
The Lincoln Square Business Improvement District is putting on the meeting with DOT and the community board.
When: Wednesday, June 4th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: American Bible Society – 1865 Broadway at W. 61st Street
For more information contact Josh Orzeck, NYC DOT at 212-839-6218 or JOrzeck@dot.nyc.gov. RSVP not required.
Apologies for the late notice on this meeting.
I can’t make this meeting but it’s great to hear DOT and the neighborhood are looking at this intersection.
I often find it very difficult to cross 65th street on the east side on foot – just more pedestrians here than the sidewalk has room for.
When I’m biking, I really wish that the protected Columbus Ave bike lane connected down via Broadway from 65th to the protected southbound lane at Columbus Circle.
Thanks Lincoln Square BID for hosting!
Re: “…just more pedestrians here than the sidewalk has room for.”
As has been proposed elsewhere by someone else, how about dividing the sidewalks into ‘Tourista Lanes’ and ‘Local Lanes’?
The latter would be for us fast-walking no-nonsense UWS residents;
and the former for:
1. gaggles of European tourists sauntering five-abreast (and probably snickering at how backward we seem compared to their cities);
2) gaggles of slack-jawed ‘Amurricans’ from one-stoplight towns dazed-and-confused by everything NYC and looking for even moore examples of sin and debauchery in the wicked city they’ve heard so much about (vendor-sold photos of that street sign for Gay Street not being enough).
Of course, like every other rule of municipal conduct, it would require effective monitoring by the City and its agents….which means it will never be enforced.
Hahaha Scooter, don’t get me started. One of my faves is the tourist busses parked outside of Zabar’s. Mr. and Mrs. Widebutt rush inside and come out triumphantly with boxes of domestic brie from the 99-cent discount basket just inside the door. (Don’t bother telling them that Citarella’s is better … they can’t even pronounce it … much less the owners and employees.)
Thanks, Bill !
Re: tourist buses, there is a legend that someone (maybe more than one) offended by the tourist buses and their sensation-seeking occupants cruising the narrow Greenwich Village streets, would run alongside the bus while holding up a mirror.
The message: “Looking for freaks? Look then at yourselves!”
I live in the area and there has been constant construction to the roads and “triangle areas” around Lincoln Center for the past year.
To rip that all out and start from scratch again seems like a huge waste to me.