Tag: pedestrian safety

An 84-year-old man was thrown to the ground and left with a bloodied face after an encounter with police Sunday. The police presence

The awful carnage continued early Sunday morning at 96th street and Broadway when a pedestrian was hit and killed after

By Nesh Pillay More than a hundred New Yorkers gathered at the corner of 97th street and West End Avenue Wednesday night

The 9-year-old boy and 73 year old man who died in separate crashes on Friday night within two blocks of each other were mourne

Two people were killed in separate car crashes on Friday just two blocks away from each other. The first crash occurred around

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 ...

The city is taking applications for "neighborhood slow zones," which are sections of a neighborhood where the speed limit will be reduced to 20 mph from 30 mph at the community's request. Applications are due by May 31. The zones must also be approved by community boards. Applications must be ...

October 10, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 63 Degrees.

The city has drafted a plan to redesign the streets from 55th Street to 86th Street, making them safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, and smoother for drivers. The plan, which will be presented at a meeting Wednesday night at John Jay College at 6 p.m., is 98 pages long. A ...

April 25, 2012 Weather: Afternoon Showers, High of 58 Degrees.

March 14, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 68 Degrees.

December 21, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 58 Degrees.

A 20-year-old Columbia student was hit by a Mercedes-Benz sedan at 106th Street and Broadway early Sunday morning, and the car sped away without stopping. The young man had just gotten out of a cab around 1:20 a.m. and began walking north to cross the street when he was hit ...

November 22, 2011 Weather: Afternoon showers, High of 49 Degrees.

November 14, 2011 Weather: Afternoon Showers, High of 64 Degrees.

The 32-year-old woman who was hit by a Mercury Mountaineer and killed on Thursday night was an Italian singer who had recently moved to New York to try to make a career here. The singer, Daniela D'Ercole, was crossing Broadway at 106th Street after getting out of a cab when ...

November 11, 2011 (Veterans Day) Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 49 Degrees

The city has made real progress on its redesign to the notorious "Bowtie of Death" intersection of Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues at 71st Street, completely redesigning the pedestrian walkways and the street itself.

Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal stood in the center of one of the most dangerous intersections in the city surrounded by Upper West Siders today and called for the Department of Transportation to get its act together and fix the intersection. In the past two years, 34 ...