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CB3 Committee Takes Up Chatham Square, E. Broadway Noise, Horse Drawn Carriages

The Transportation Committee of Community Board 3 has a full agenda tonight. Among the issues they'll address: A request from residents and the Seward Park Co-op Board to put up signs on East Broadway limiting truck traffic to local deliveries.  A...

Weekend Road Alert: Williamsburg Bridge

From New York City's Department of Transportation:The Williamsburg Bridge will have two lanes eastbound and four lanes westbound open to traffic on Saturday from 5:00 am to 3:00 pm. From 3:00 pm Saturday to 8:00 pm on Sunday three lanes eastbound...

Followup: Chinatown Bus Wars

The people who live on Pike Street near East Broadway are not waiting for the city to conduct its investigation of the chaos occurring outside their apartments. We have been covering their fight to have a parking permit for...
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New Bike Safety Web Site Debuts

If you really want to get Grand Street motorists going, ask them how they feel about bicyclists who don't obey the traffic rules. We found that out last month during the transportation "town hall" sponsored by Councilman Alan Gerson....

New Bike Safety Web Site Debuts

If you really want to get Grand Street motorists going, ask them how they feel about bicyclists who don't obey the traffic rules. We found that out last month during the transportation "town hall" sponsored by Councilman Alan Gerson....

Followup: Buses Moved to Chelsea

We told you last week that a couple of dozen buses that the city wanted to park in Tribeca until the community rebelled, were headed for the East River, under the FDR. That was going to delay the next...
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Followup: Chinatown Bus Chaos

We've been following the fight by the people who live along a stretch of Pike Street to get those ubiquitous Chinatown buses away from their doorsteps. Last night they took the battle to the transportation Committee of Community Board...

Residents Battle Chinatown Buses and NYC Red Tape

As early as 6 o'clock in the morning, the long tour buses pull up to Albert Chan's apartment on Pike Street, idling, attracting swarming crowds and snarling traffic. There's so much congestion MTA buses often can't stop at the...

Train Trends: Charting the LES’s Resurgence

Financial blogger Felix Salmon takes note of a fascinating new chart (stay with me!) that tracks New York subway ridership through the years: The Bowery J/M/Z stop has seen less ridership than any other subway station in Manhattan for years, and...
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More Buses Headed For East River

Here's the way Curbed put it today: "East side the real victim in Tribeca bus war." Neighborhood groups and City Councilman Alan Gerson, fought off the city's plan to move 18 buses to Tribeca. Based on an article in...

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JESSOR, A Show About the Architect of the Grand Street Co-ops, Opens Tomorrow at Citygroup

A new exhibition featuring the works of New York architect Herman Jessor, who designed more than 40,000 units of...

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