Tag: 72nd street

A busy Upper West Side thoroughfare is set to get a new mid-block crosswalk and traffic signal.

Changes might be on the way for Verdi Square on the Upper West Side.

The block association is partnering with the nonprofit that helps plant and care for the medians on Broadway.

Work will include cleaning tree beds, mulching, and general clean up work.

Brewer met with sanitation officials on this block to discuss community quality of life concerns around sanitation and

Community Board 7’s Transportation Committee voted on Tuesday night to ask the city to build a new bike lane on 72nd Street, and to give restaurants greater leeway in outdoor seating arrangements.

The 72nd Street B and C line subway station is leaking once again, puzzling riders who wonder why the MTA spent so much money

At 7:25 p.m. Wednesday, a northbound vehicle on West End Avenue that was turning left onto West 72nd Street hit a pedestrian.

The city tore up parts of the sidewalk on the North side of 72nd street where it enters Riverside Park this week to extend the curb, as part of its project

A man was hit and killed by a train at the 72nsd street subway station on Friday around noon; an MTA spokesman told

A man who may have been homeless was found dead on the steps of Westsider Records on 72nd street between Broadway and West End Avenue

The city has completed changes to Riverside Drive at 72nd and 79th streets in an effort to make those areas more pedestrian-friendly. Both intersections

By Timothy Sandoval Community Board 7 voted on Monday night to modify curbs and crosswalks at 72nd street and Riverside Drive to make the intersection safer, but acceded to demands

Community Board 7 has a packed agenda on Monday, with votes planned on changes to the intersection at 72nd street and Riverside Drive, and the Columbus Avenue crafts fair, among others.

The intersections at Riverside Drive and West 72nd street and West 79th street are notorious trouble spots. The city's Department of Transportation is planning

Four manholes exploded on Wednesday night on 72nd street near Riverside Drive, with at least one witness claiming she saw flames leap out. The explosions caused power outages to several buildings in the area, according to NBC News.  A Con Edison power outage map now indicates that the power has ...

Police released the photos above of two men wanted in a knife-point robbery in the 72nd Street B/C train station on November 20. Two men stole a 38-year-old man's wallet and

Second Time Around, a chain of consignment shops that opened an Upper West Side location last year, is expanding again. The store plans to open a new 2,000-square-foot shop at 238 West 72nd Street by the end of the year, Crain's reported. That space used to house a stationary store, ...

An elderly man was hit by an SUV around 5 p.m. on Saturday as he crossed 72nd Street on Columbus Avenue. The man had a walk signal and the SUV crashed into him as it turned from Columbus onto 72nd, two witnesses told me. The man was carried by stretcher ...

March 19, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 71 Degrees.