Greenway Archive
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Close the Gap
The gap in the East River Greenway is approximately 1.2 miles long, stretching from Glick Park at East 37th north of the Queensborough Bridge to about East 60th street. The official route of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway in this area detours users inland, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to negotiate [...] -
NY State Awards Funding to Help Close the Greenway Gap
Some big news coming in today concerning New York City’s urban waterfront and the East River Greenway. The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance’s Waterwire reports that New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez has announced that $23.8 million will be funneled from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund to waterfront revitalization projects across the state. Of that total, nearly [...] -
New East Side BRT Plans Maintain Much of the Greenway Gap Status Quo
Last week, the New York City Department of Transportation presented detailed plans for the upcoming implementation of Select Bus Service (SBS) on 1st and 2nd Avenues at the third meeting of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The City does not plan to install a physically separated bus-lane (i.e. one with some sort of barrier to keep [...]