There are two meetings happening this evening addressing issues important to a lot of people in the neighborhood. First, Community Board 3's transportation committee will be briefed by city officials on proposals to deal with the proliferation...
Photos by Joel Raskin Back in May, we reported that parents from P.S. 110 were campaigning for traffic signals on Delancey and Lewis streets, near the school. Community Board 3 asked the Department of Transportation to look at...
A cement truck coming off of the Manhattan Bridge crashed into a cell phone store on Canal Street Street today, injuring eight people, and badly damaging a row of parked cars. For years,residents in Chinatown have complained about the...
As if the Halloween parade and the marathon weren't enough, the MTA will also be complicating your weekend travel plans. Just about every train line will be disrupted, including the dreaded F. Here's what the MTA advises: 179 St-bound...
From NYC's Department of Transportation:Northbound FDR Drive Full Closure of Lanes Between E. Houston and E. 20th Streets Saturday and SundayAll three northbound lanes of the FDR Drive will be closed to traffic
from East Houston Street to East 20th...
City Councilmember John Liu grilled a Department of Transportation official this morning about the agency's dealings with the community in Chinatown over the reconstruction of Chatham Square. Liu, chair of the Council's transportation committee and almost certainly...
Tomorrow morning, the City Council's Transportation Committee will take up a bill that would require the Department of Transportation to notify communities about major construction projects. In recent years, residents on the Lower East Side and in Chinatown have...
Part of the B, D, F, and V lines between 59 Street and West
4th Street have been shut down due to a fire. Cables
outside a substation near 53rd Steet and Seventh Avenue caught fire. The V is not running...
From The NYC Department of Transportation:One lane on the north inner and outer roadways of the Williamsburg
Bridge will be closed on Saturday and Sunday from 5:00 am to 8:00 pm.
The south inner roadway will be reversed to Manhattan from...
This week NYC transportation officials told members of Community Board 3 the controversial revamp of Chatham Square is on hold for about two years. During the summer, the Department of Transportation acknowledged the delay, due to "timing and coordination...
