Tag: bicycling

Street-safety advocates, including parents of children killed by drivers on the Upper West Side, are calling on local city council members and Borough President Gale Brewer to pay more attention to street safety.

The city started a process on Thursday night that could bring dozens of CitiBike stations to the Upper West Side as soon as late summer, extending the bike-sharing program as far North as 130th street.

Jason Marshall, the bicyclist who hit 59-year-old Jill Tarlov in the crosswalk in Central Park last week, broke his silence on Tuesday, releasing a statement through his lawyer.

Local politicians have begun to float proposals to respond to outrage over the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a bicyclist last week. Jill Tarlov died today after a bicyclist

Jill Tarlov, the 59-year-old mother of two who was hit by a bicyclist inside Central Park at West 63rd street on Friday, has died, according to a statement from her family.

After teasing Upper West Siders for years by promising to deploy Citi Bikes in our neighborhood, the city says it's really, actually, probably, almost definitely

We've heard two reports of pedestrians being injured by bicyclists in Central Park in recent weeks.

Thieves removed the sign from a street pole on 78th street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue and lifted a bicycle over the top

Police officers in the 24th precinct (above 86th street) have increased the number of tickets they give to bicyclists in the past month

Bicycles began to become popular in the second half of the 19th century, and historical accounts from the 1880's talked of a bicycling and tricycling craze in New York.

A community board transportation committee meeting on Tuesday night will address a hot-button issue: how should the Upper West Side change its major avenues to make them safer? The discussion is not specifically about bike lanes, but its likely to focus on them. Bike lane advocates are pushing for a ...

Citibike, the city's short-term bike rental network, is the hot new thing in the city this summer. But like many hot new things, it's not on the Upper West Side. We've seen people Citi-biking through the neighborhood, but there's nowhere

The Hudson River Greenway bike path between 59th and 72nd street now has lights at night, an amenity that bicyclists have been asking for for years. But police are also apparently ticketing people who bike on the Greenway after the park closes at 1 a.m., according to a reader who ...

After an education campaign on the Upper West Side last year, the Department of Transportation is set to begin enforcing rules for delivery bicyclists this month. The crackdown comes after years of complaints that delivery bicyclists -- many of whom are under pressure to make fast deliveries -- often flout ...

Some advocates for bike lanes now want to disregard whatever the Upper West Side's community board might have to say and have the city install bike lanes by the mayor's executive fiat. Bike lane advocates are frustrated that the community board has been slow to approve extension to the bike ...

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We've written quite a bit about the conflicts between the various kinds of people who use Central Park's loop road -- bicyclists, drivers, runners and ho-hum pedestrians all tend to come into conflict with each other at one time or another. Usually, the conflicts consist of angry facial expressions and ...