It's going to be a busy night for members of Community Board 3's transportation committee. As we reported earlier in the week, officials from the Department of Transportation will outline their plans for improved bicycle access to the Williamsburg...
Tomorrow night, officials from the city's Department of Transportation will brief Community Board 3 on a plan to add new bike lanes connecting to the Williamsburg Bridge. In short, bike-dedicated corridors would be created on Suffolk, Stanton and Rivington...
Straphangers gave their testimony at the MTA’s public hearing held at the Fashion Institute of Technology last night. District 1 City Councilmember Margaret Chin was there to vocalize concerns specific to the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
Since subway lines...
As we've been reporting, the MTA will hold a public hearing in Manhattan tonight on its proposed service cuts. A similar event last night in Brooklyn got ugly when Police dragged several angry protesters out of the auditorium at...
Thursday night, residents in Manhattan will have a chance to speak out about the MTA's proposed service cuts. A public hearing is scheduled to take place at the Fashion Institute of Technology (7th Avenue & 27th Street), beginning at...
Here's something for all of you car-deprived New Yorkers. Hertz is taking on Zip Car in the "car sharing" business - and there's a new location on the Lower East Side. In an apparent first for a Manhattan co-op,...
Anyone concerned about the problems caused by the booming Chinatown bus business will want to check out a new report from the New York Department of City Planning. While there are no huge revelations, the study offers a comprehensive...
Anytime a bicyclist is hurt or killed on the streets of Lower Manhattan, Bill di Paolo makes a point of getting to the scene as quickly as he possibly can. The founder and executive director of the environmental and...
There are a few more details about the accident on Delancey Street yesterday afternoon that resulted in the death of a bicyclist. A witness told NY1 the bicyclist, a woman, hit a pothole on Delancey, fell over, and was...
You may have heard the helicopter hovering over the neighborhood. Channel 7 is reporting:
LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) --
A woman riding a bicycle was struck by a school bus and died from her injuries on the Lower...