Tag: pedestrian safety

Community Board 7 will vote Tuesday night on a redesign of Lincoln Square that could dramatically alter the streets and sidewalks

The city announced plans to target Manhattan's most dangerous intersections, and expects to pay particular attention to Broadway on the Upper West Side.

By Krista Carter The streets in the Lincoln Square area could see major changes this summer after a community board committee approved a plan to extend the Columbus Avenue bike lane and

By Krista Carter Sgt. Felicia Montgomery of the 20th precinct presented 2014 and early 2015 crash statistics at a Community Board 7 meeting on Tuesday night, highlighting the intersections

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.

A community board committee will take a second look at a series of changes that could transform Lincoln Square on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at 250 West 87th street. The Department of Transportation presented a plan in December that could alter the bowtie area on Broadway from 69th street to ...

The timing has changed on the traffic lights at the intersection of 96th street and Broadway, which will hopefully make the intersection less confusing to pedestrians and drivers.

Prezidor Porbeni, a 28-year-old Bronx resident, was arrested and charged for the hit and run on 113th street and Amsterdam Avenue on New Year's Eve

Clearly, the muckity-mucks on the Upper West Side are reading your comments. Because Council member Helen Rosenthal's communications director contacted West Side Rag to

A 10-year-old girl was hit by a taxi at the southeast corner of 96th street and Broadway at around 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, according to police and a witness

POLICE RELEASE VIDEO OF SUV IN FATAL HIT-AND-RUN Posted on January 4, 2015 at 11:05 pm by West Sider hit and run vehicle The SUV driver that hit and killed photographer Guler Ugur-Yaacobi on New Year’s Eve at 113th street and Amsterdam Avenue is

A 44-year-old woman was hit by an SUV and killed on Amsterdam Avenue and 113th street Wednesday evening. The woman, identified as Brooklyn resident Guler Ugur-Yaacobi, was

The city's decision to cut the default speed limit to 25 miles per hour did not apply everywhere, including a section of Riverside Drive from

Jean Chambers, the 61-year-old woman hit and killed by an SUV at 95th street and West End Avenue in July, was not on her cell phone when she

An 86-year-old woman was hit by a vehicle turning onto Broadway at 106th street around 6 p.m. on Friday, sending her to the hospital with injuries that authorities said didn't appear to be critical.

The Department of Transportation has released its full plan to redesign the "bowtie" area on Broadway and Columbus between 66th and 63rd streets.

The Department of Transportation unveiled a new traffic plan for Lincoln Square area on Tuesday night, attempting to fix the dangerous conditions

Wendy Ruther, the mother hit by a truck at 65th street and Broadway last Monday while walking her 3-year-old to school, is still in the hospital. She's recovering

The city wants to reconfigure parts of Lincoln Square to make it safer for pedestrians, potentially redesigning streets, sidewalks and curbs in the area

A pedestrian was hit by a taxicab at 69th street and Broadway around 5 p.m. on Saturday, according to Margaret Harbaugh, who came upon the scene shortly after the crash.