City calls for changes to the Sheridan
Advocates, who for over a decade have fought to replace the highway, with housing, businesses, parks and easy access to the Bronx River, are happy with some parts of a new city plan, but not with others.
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Transportation
Parks / Transportation
Overhaul planned for Msgr. Del Valle Square
City asks residents to help imagine a remake City officials told Community Board 2 at an April meeting that Monsignor Raul Del Valle Square will soon undergo a major facelift, and they want local residents to share their ideas of what the revamped space could look like. The tiny square, [...]
Transportation
Accident-prone corner gets stop sign
By Daniel Bejarano It took 14 years of car accidents, but finally, the Department of Transportation has put two new stop signs at the corner of East 156th and Kelly Streets. The signs went up March 16th, just two days after a contentious community board meeting at which residents blasted [...]
Business / Environment / Transportation
Effort for cleaner air targets trucks
It may not have the same ring as “cash for clunkers,” but the new Hunts Point Clean Trucks Program will share that initiative’s goal of trying to reduce air pollution by providing businesses with incentives for getting the worst polluting vehicles off local streets and roadways. The city’s Department of [...]
Environment / Transportation
Will Crames Square ever be congestion free?
Getting to the Hunts Point subway stop from the Hunts Point peninsula is “hell,” said resident John Carlos on a recent afternoon. “Cars and buses are on all sides. It gets easily crowded and there is not enough time to cross.” Pedestrians have to cross a 72-foot roadway under the [...]