I'm glad for this. Hopefully the coming Congestion reduction beginning next year will also make the streets better for all parties involved: cyclists, pedestrians, and even the (fewer) drivers. — Marcus on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Let's bring back the "No Honking" signs. Actually, even better, let's enforce "No Honking Except in Emergency". — Marcus on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Any studies to back this up? We can provide a few that show bike lanes spur economic growth. Here's one from Toronto: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2019.1638816 Key takeaway: "Using a case–control and pre–post design, we surveyed merchants and shoppers to understand the impacts of the bike lanes on economic activities. We find no negative economic impacts associated with the bike lanes: Monthly customer spending and number of customers served by merchants both increased on Bloor Street during the pilot." I'd also point out, and you even state, most people driving and creating the congestion are coming from other places than Tribeca. Tribeca is literally served by almost every subway line, the PATH, countless commuter buses from SI, NJ and LI, etc. It's not like there aren't alternatives to get her beside private automobile. Sure there could be more, but we should also be promoting bike lanes which provide the alternatives you are talking about. — DB on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

The Reading Ninja should host a bookclub at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble. Might as well get more kids involved. Definitely a positive thing. — RP on Seen & Heard: Laughing Man 2.0 coming along

I love the way these bike riders just assume they can do away with all the cars that come into the city without its killing the economy. And how many cars use these streets compared with the 1400 bikes? Are any of thses solutions fair or even-handed at all? Social engineering can be carried much too far, or at least forced at an excessive and punitive rate. What bothers me is that these changes are never made in consultation with motorists groups or with any consideration at all for the welfare of motorists or even thoughts about maintaining traffic flow to minimize air pollution. Suddenly, it's politically incorrect to drive a car into the city and rather than find or create a viable alternative to make the plan practical and reasonable, we just force change. Whatever happened to cooperation and compromise? American cities and their contiguous suburbs have depended on the automobile for a very long time. A vast number of people who drive into New York can't reasonably access the city by bike. You can't just suddenly bring an end to what we have without creating alternatives. — John Baxter on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Selfish people are creating big problems for those that really need service and emotional stability dogs. If you cannot be without your pet and need to bring it into a store or onto a plane, but you do not have real problems that require emotional stability, then you are selfish and pathetic. — Lisa on Nosy Neighbor: Are dogs allowed in Liberty Park?

Honking cars? In downtown New York? Why I never — AJ on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

It's the cars that are creating gridlock. — AFC on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Hi, I saw your post about the Reading Ninja posters and stickers and wanted to say that the work this group does is so important. Our younger generation needs continued encouragement and support as they develop into strong, literate, contributing members of society. My family has used the book recommendations made by the Reading Ninja to help foster my daughter’s love of reading and consequently all of our literary muscles. As the Reading Ninja says -“Reading is rad!” — Freada Sylvester on Seen & Heard: Laughing Man 2.0 coming along

My son is at school otherwise I would have him chime in. I simply cannot wait though - I’m too eager to respond. The Reading Ninja is very much in fact a mother and son duo. They find the most creative ways to engage young people in reading. The merchandise is for the fans. And to subsidize the hours of work that goes into it. It’s hard to imagine that The Reading Ninja is just a very cool mother and son who live for books (if you know the backstory, it all started initially to pass on that love to her son in the first place) but it’s true. They’re cooler and more creative than anyone else I know and I feel so lucky that my sons and I get to be on the front lines learning from them and partaking in their creative pursuits. Also, it’s awesome that you’re taking the time to look into it. I hope it brings more awareness to The Reading Ninja and engages more kids in the rad community that they’re building. Erica Rand Silverman — Erica Rand Silverman on Seen & Heard: Laughing Man 2.0 coming along

That's a great idea that could be implemented with minimal infrastructure changes (an no traffic changes). Another great example of DOT's inability to really think when it comes to biking infrastructure. — DB on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

How much noise do the bikes make? Perhaps you should be advocating for less polluting (noise and air) modes of transportation if you want more quiet and better air? Also, numerous studies show that there is induced demand when referring to traffic. Something tells me that even if there were two lanes, you'd probably hear honking. In fact, I've often heard honking on roads with 2+ lanes! https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-university-induced-demand/569455/ — DB on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

North of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lafayette St bike lane should be flipped with the parking lane and made protected to Spring Street and all of the Lafayette St bike lane turned into a two-way bike lane from Union Square to the Brooklyn Bridge (and linked with a protected lane on Park Row to the new lane on lower Broadway). — Gary on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

The bike lane around city hall has created complete gridlock having access to only one lane going straight for park row. Terrible idea to take away more travel lanes. It’ll just add to the sounds of horns in the early afternoon to late evenings. — Adam on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Dogs and kids have so much in common, yet one is welcomed into restaurants and the other is not. https://www.azfamily.com/shows/good_morning_arizona/health/where-do-kids-pick-up-the-most-germs-you-might/article_910458ba-04bc-11ea-bac7-a3df89826f62.html — Jim Smithers on Nosy Neighbor: Are dogs allowed in Liberty Park?

Man dies after being licked by his dog and contracting rare infection - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/health/dog-lick-death-germany-scli-intl-grm/index.html — James on Nosy Neighbor: Are dogs allowed in Liberty Park?

And own the sidewalks — James on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

All colors, naturally, with their cool city-scape logo. — Tribeca Citizen on Seen & Heard: Richard Serra in Chelsea

I'll start getting excited about all the concessions to bike riders when they start obeying the rules of the road...yielding to pedestrians, stopping at red lights, maintaining a safe speed, etc. Many behave like they own the road. — Makes You Go "Hmm-m-m" on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Thought of another half-baked CDOT design downtown: Going North on Centre from FiDi, they have a protected two-way bike lane that gets you to Brooklyn Bridge and then just.......stops. So if you want to continue going north on the bike lane on Centre, you have to either go off onto City Hall plaza and intermingle with pedestrians (always extremely crowded, especially during warm weather) or salmon one block to the Chambers / Centre intersection. Why would you not extend the two-way protected bike lane to attach to your other northern bound bike lane? It's either because DOT is gutless (placard abuse cars park there) or they are incompetent. Neither is a good look. — DB on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

Congestion pricing -- coming in early 2021 -- will cut the volume of cars and trucks using Canal and Broome Streets as a toll-free conduit from Long Island to NJ, by tolling the Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. (That is true even if two-way tolling of the Verrazano Bridge continues to be delayed.) This should free up more than enough road space in and around Hudson Square to make it simple to extend the Seventh Ave protected bike lane into and through SoHo and Tribeca. — Komanoff on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

S. is correct about hygiene and distinction between "Real service dogs" and "Emotional support animals." Hopefully I am correct and everyone reading this agrees . . . to say nothing about the necessity for vaccinations. Of course there's always an outlier somewhere, just hopefully not here. — Ben on Nosy Neighbor: Are dogs allowed in Liberty Park?

Do tell, what kind of t-shirts does Let There Be Neon sell? — TK on Seen & Heard: Richard Serra in Chelsea

Great news, but share the rant about gaps. Broadway should have a complete protected bike lane south of Union Square. Pathetic to not include NoHo, SoHo, Tribeca, etc. The amount of buses, trucks and cars make it a very intimidating stretch to bike, when it's a main thoroughfare for downtown. Where do they think these 1241 bicyclists are coming from? Half-baked measure, a classic CDOT move. — DB on Dedicated bike lane coming for Broadway in Fidi

With a little more feeling Anthony. — TG on Nosy Neighbor: Are dogs allowed in Liberty Park?