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HAGSTROM BROOKLYN 1922
Unlike Queens, which was in the midst of overhauling its street nomenclature in 1922, pushing out names and old numbered streets and instituting a borough-wide numbering system, the map of Brooklyn was pretty much settled on in 1922, and it would remain much the same to this day, with one glaring exception. While outlying regions such as Bergen Beach and Canarsie were not yet completely urbanized, and wouldn’t be until the late 20th Century, much of Brooklyn was laid out and built up.
The downtown area, though, has experienced great change since 1922. Public works by traffic czar Robert Moses such as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway as well as Cadman Plaza, a large park, and housing such as the Farragut, Ingersoll and Whitman Houses, as well as private developments like MetroTech Center, have conspired to eliminate dozens of streets, hundreds of buildings, and two separate elevated train lines. A comparable situation took place in Boston, which tore out much of its downtown and Scollay Square area to build its City Hall and other government buildings in the 1960s. Downtown Brooklyn’s changes began in the 1940s and continue to this day.
On the 1922 map shown here the thick green lines represent elevated trains. One of them came over the Brooklyn Bridge and ran south on Adams Street and east on Myrtle Avenue. The Myrtle Avenue el would last until 1969. Another one, the Fulton Street El, began at the East River and ran east out on Fulton Street and Liberty Avenue to Ozone Park. The section shown here would be torn down in 1942. Not shown on this excerpt is a branch that went down Flatbush, 5th and 3rd Avenues into Bay Ridge, which ran until 1940. We can see a number of streets that exist as relative stubs today that ran full length in 1922, such as High (named for a hill leveled nearly two centuries ago), Johnson, Sands and Prospect Streets.
The north end of Fulton, and the south end of Washington, became Cadman Plaza East and West, while in the 1970s the north end of Cadman Plaza West was re-dubbed Old Fulton Street. When Cadman Plaza was built in the 1950s, the formerly el-shrouded Adams Street was given 6 extra lanes to carry traffic coming off the Brooklyn Bridge.
And alleys, alleys, alleys. DUMBO has lost a few, like Talman Street, Charles Street, Green Lane. There were tiny, narrow ones with not enough room to show on the map, like Floods Alley, Gothic Alley and Nutria Alley, the latter named for a fur-bearing critter prized for its fur. Newark has a Nutria Alley too, both are gone now.
Until recently, these were just lines on paper to me. But the city has now uploaded thousands of 1940 photos onto the Municipal Archive — just pick a street, and let the wonders show themselves. Here’s Adams Street, for example.
Years ago, I compiled a fairly comprehensive list, on FNY’s Downtown Brooklyn Street Necrology.
Check out the ForgottenBook, take a look at the gift shop, and as always, “comment…as you see fit.”
2/20/19
Source: https://forgotten-ny.com/2019/02/hagstrom-brooklyn-1922/
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American – $582: Chicago / Boston / Dallas / Miami / New York / San Francisco / Washington D.C. – Osaka, Japan. Roundtrip, including all Taxes
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Introducing a New Prosecco: "A New Way to Drink Young!" Free samples!
When: November 27- December 1, 2018 4 PM - 2 AM
Where: Pierre Loti Chelsea Pierre Loti Union Square
258 West 15 St at 8th Ave. 53 Irving Place at 17 St
From November 27 to December 1, Pierre Loti Chelsea (258 West 15 St) and Pierre Loti Union Square (53 Irving Place) will be introducing two great new-to-market proseccos made by Anna Spinato from Treviso, Italy. Anna's family has been making prosecco since 1952. But the New York introduction of the "New Way to Drink Young!" line of proseccos will open your senses to a modern (and affordable!) sparkling wine that's perfect for our time. Stop by to savor a free sample and get to meet Anna in person!
Source: https://www.localwineevents.com/events/detail/736508/Introducing-a-New-Prosecco-A-New-Way-to-Drink-Young-Free-samples
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The mysterious mosaic at 88 University Place
University Place is only seven blocks long—but this Greenwich Village street has its share of historic plaques.
One marks the Hotel Albert, the spectacular Victorian Gothic “French Flats” opened in 1887 between Tenth and Eleventh Streets that was a haven for creative types before becoming a co-op in the 1980s.
At 113 University Place is a bronze tablet dedicated to the New York State Militia’s Ninth Regiment, which fought in the Civil War. And at number 90, a sign marks the walkup building where poet Frank O’Hara lived in the 1960s.
But there’s another, more unusual marker in front of the 1900s-era loft building at 88 University Place (at left) that carries some mystery.
This one is a mosaic. “Kaliski & Gabay 88” it reads, in a funky blue and white tile typeface.
Who were Kaliski and Gabay? Fine arts auctioneers who operated their business here auctioning paintings, rare books, rugs, and other items as early as 1914; that’s the earlist reference I found of the fine auction house Arthur Kaliski and Richard Gabay founded.
The place was really rocking in the first half of the 20th century. Kaliski died in 1946 at age 63, but his Brooklyn Eagle obituary stated, “his performance every Friday and Saturday, except holidays, was regarded as a good show and drew crowds of more than 200 persons at a time” to the University Place auction house.
This 1947 newspaper ad makes note of their auctions (and a GR phone number!).
At some point around 1950, it seems the auction house shut down. Today, it’s a WeWork, and I wonder if the workers here ever think about the names they have to step past to enter the building.
[Fourth image: New York Herald, December 1922]
Tags: Kaliski & Gabay, Kaliski & Gabay Auctioneers, Kaliski & Gabay University Place, University Place 1900s, University Place Auction House
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Source: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/the-mysterious-mosaic-at-88-university-place/
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At Howl! Happening tonight: 'A Reading from the Old Neighborhood'
[International Bar & Grill, 119 St. Marks Place, 1986 © Ted Barron]
Tonight from 7-9 at Howl! Happening — "A Reading from the Old Neighborhood" ... via the EVG inbox...
Howl! Happening invites you to join us for a reading and fantastic music from the old neighborhood, featuring LES luminaries:
Samoa
Kurt Wolf of Pussy Galore
Poet legends David Huberman & EAK! Angie Glasscock
East of Bowery (which includes the photography of Ted Barron)
Darius James
Annecy TK
Puma Perl
…and many more
Host Drew Hubner is the author of "American by Blood," "We Pierce" and "East of Bowery." Produced by Kristin Mathis.
Find more details at this link. Howl! Happening is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
Source: http://evgrieve.com/2019/03/at-howl-happening-tonight-reading-from.html
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DEEP DIVE: Are E-Scooters Unsafe At Any Speed?
In just over a year, e-scooters have gone from a freakishly rare novelty to almost ubiquitous in American cities.
Billions of venture capital goes a long way, fast. Bird alone claims to be operating in more than 100 cities.
There are as many as 17,000 e-scooters on the streets of Los Angeles, the Wall Street Journal reports, available to adults for as little as $1.15 per ride. And there are 13,000 in San Diego and almost as many in Austin.
We’re just now beginning to understand the impacts.
The CDC is gearing up to do the first authoritative study of e-scooter safety. The study will examine 68 e-scooter injuries that took place over a two-month period in Austin. Over that time, there were 37 EMS calls or about one every other day, the report says. There are almost 12,000 e-scooters approved for operation on Austin’s streets and they took about 235,000 trips in October, according to city data.
Meanwhile, in recent months there has a been rising alarm about injuries. Doctors in cities such as Nashville and St. Louis have discussed worrying levels of injuries, saying scooter crash victims are flooding their emergency rooms.
Apparently, mayors have concerned as well.
“Every mayor who’s got ’em comes up to me and says, ‘Don’t take ’em,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said recently. “And the reason is … every city that has scooters has significant traumatic injuries.”
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo last week threatened to ban them unless the companies could use a technology like geofencing to keep e-scooters off the sidewalks.
“If there is not significant improvement in safety of e-scooters, ultimately bans are coming,” he told the San Jose Mercury News. “There are serious injuries happening out there.”
The scooter companies — especially Bird — have deflected such concerns by pointing to the far more catastrophic danger of cars. Their defenses mirror, to an uncanny degree, urbanist messages. In response to a class-action suit by injured scooter users, Bird said:
“Class action attorneys with a real interest in improving transportation safety should be focused on reducing the 40,000 deaths caused by cars every year in the U.S.”
So how are e-scooters performing on safety? It’s not an easy question to answer, in part because the scooter companies have been pretty secretive with their data, although that’s beginning to change. And it’s also difficult to say because scooters are such a new technology and, as they become integrated into urban landscapes, may experience lower and lower injury rates as cities redesign streets — similar to how cities such as New York reduced cycling deaths even as the numbers of bike riders increased.
Fatalities
So far there have been two — or three — e-scooter deaths it depends on how you count them.
In D.C. in September, a 20-year-old man was killed when he was struck by an SUV driver while riding a Lime scooter. In Dallas the same month, a 24-year-old man died in what appears to have been a solo fall from a Lime scooter.
Finally, in August, a 21-year-old woman was killed in downtown Cleveland when she was struck by a driver who, cops say, high on heroin. She was riding a scooter-hybrid with a seat she had rented from a storefront rental business — not one of the mass marketed dockless varieties that have taken over cities.
It’s hard to assess two or three deaths out of 40- to 60-million rides on a completely new vehicle with which very few people have become comfortable. By comparison, cars kill about one person per 80 million vehicle miles, a number that has been declining over the long term. But given how many miles Americans drive, cars kill tens of thousands of people every year. Scooter trips are typically a mile.
To put those numbers in perspective, a 2015 study by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher estimated that 2.25 cyclists die on their own bikes, and 5 bike-share riders die, for every 100 million miles in London and Paris.
The London and Paris numbers “might be more comparable to the scooter data, since they are for cities rather than whole countries, and urban areas tend to be somewhat safer than rural areas,” said Kay Tscheke, a public health researcher at the University of British Columbia.
Based on Bird’s estimate of 40-60 million trips at roughly one mile, Tscheke said the range for e-scooters in the U.S. seemed to be between 2.25 and 5 deaths per 100 million miles.
“If these data are correct, the death rate seems to be within the range of death rates for similar modes of travel,” she wrote.
But so far, anyway, the record for e-scooters does seem to be a bit worse than bike share in the U.S. Last year, the National Association of City Transportation Officials wrote that there have been 123 million bike share trips through the end of 2017, going back almost a decade. The estimated length of those trips is between 1.5 and 3 miles.
There have only been two bike share deaths in the U.S. in the whole history of modern bike share. That means, using an average trip length of 1.5 miles, a conservative estimate, that’s a death rate of one per 92 million miles for U.S. bike share, even excluding all the miles ridden this year.
Injuries
Evaluating injuries is more difficult. Anecdotal data are concerning, however, if you take them at face value.
Peter Holley at the Washington Post wrote in September that scooter riders were “pouring into emergency rooms” and that their injuries “looked like car wrecks,” including “broken noses, wrists and shoulders, facial lacerations and fractures, as well as the kind of blunt head trauma that can leave brains permanently damaged.” The story cited dangers in many cities.
In Santa Monica — the “e-scooter and e-bike capital of the world,” according to Curbed — 18 serious injuries were reported by the Fire Department over just a two-week period in July.
At St. Louis’s Washington University, professors recently sounded the alarm over the high number of injured scooter riders arriving in the affiliated hospital’s emergency room. They reported six to seven ER visits per week over a two-month period. It wasn’t just bumps and bruises. Of those injuries, six required surgery and 12 were admitted to that one hospital through the emergency room.
“The costs for our city to allowing these e-scooters has probably been underestimated,” the professors concluded.
Doctors in Nashville offered perhaps the most concerning anecdotal evidence yet about the safety of e-scooters. Vanderbilt Medical Center Trauma ICU director Oscar Guillamondegui told Nashville Public Radio that they were getting one injury per month that was “life changing,” meaning the person suffered what was likely permanent brain damage. For perspective, the city’s current policies allow up to 3,000 e-scooters in circulation.
The vehicles themselves
Image: Bird via PR Newswire
Some people question whether the design of the e-scooters used by Lime and Bird has inherent safety drawbacks.
“Scooters have small wheels,” Arizona State University Professor David King told Streetsblog. “That means they need really really flat smooth pavement. We don’t maintain that for anybody.”
The Riverfront Times, an alt-weekly in St. Louis, tested the devices in July, shortly after they arrived in the city. A mostly lighthearted article by Daniel Hill called them “moderately terrifying”:
Over the course of two days, I had to bail twice, went flying over the handlebars once (didn’t see that hole in the ground) and straight laid it down and slid across the pavement once (avoid multi-tasking with your hands while riding, even if you’re thirsty). Be prepared for road rash.
James McPherson, an attorney with experience litigating accident claims and who writes at SafeSelfDrive.org, raised additional concerns about the design of e-scooters, including high center of gravity, a narrow side profile.
A seat might improve safety, making scooters more like low riding bikes without pedals than upright crash machines. A seated rider lowers the center of gravity and widens the profile so he or she is more visible from the side.
We asked a Bird spokesperson how the vehicles handle on potholes. On background, that person told Streetsblog it was riders’ responsibility to avoid potholes. That means riders have to be scanning the environment both for cars and the street for potholes at the same time.
We asked Bird other questions: Did the company make any attempt to design the vehicles for maximum safety? Did the company consider the bike infrastructure in a city before setting up shop? On the record, the company offered only boilerplate about how riders are encouraged to wear helmets and how Bird encourages cities to add bike infrastructure.
Cost, not safety, seems to be an important part of the business model.
According to the Wall Street Journal, e-scooters cost about $500 each. The profitability of the companies is directly related to the price per vehicle versus how many times it is rented before it needs to be replaced. Vandalism and wear and tear are forcing the companies to replace them every two months on average. And investment prospects have been softening in part because of the limited shelf-life of the vehicles, the Journal reported.
Both Lime and Bird are valued at more than $2 billion.
How big are the environmental benefits?
Both Lime and Bird are hoping cities focus on the potential environmental benefits of e-scooters over cars.
“We don’t have a year to wait,” David Estrada, Bird’s chief legal officer and head of public policy, recently told Curbed. “Are cities going to choose to help solve the climate crisis and get people out of cars?”
It’s impressive that e-scooters have amassed between 40 to 60 million trips for a form of transportation that barely existed a year ago. But how many of those are displaced driving trips?
We don’t really know. An often-cited, though unscientific, survey in Portland found the car trip replacement level was pretty high — more than a third for locals and even higher (51 percent!) for tourists.
The survey’s limited response rate makes it digestible only with more than a few grains of salt, but it wouldn’t be surprising if e-scooters were replacing car trips at close to that range. Of course, even with healthy car-replacement levels, a large number of trips will replace walking, biking or transit as well. In those cases, they may actually increase the environmental impacts of some short trips, especially since e-scooters have such a short shelf life.
Safer streets
Scooter companies say safety will improve as scooter use becomes more widespread, creating pressure on city officials to redesign streets and add bike lanes.
Anecdotally, it seems to be true. Kansas City recently tested out a combined bike and scooter lane. And Bird has begun providing money for cities to add bike infrastructure.
Perhaps, as Bird asserts, e-scooters will eventually displace enough car trips to have a measurable impact on traffic safety.
Researchers Peter and Joel Jacobsen — whose research helped establish the “safety in numbers” effect for biking — say they expect scooter injuries to decline as they become more common, as both drivers will become more aware of them and they help produce changes in the environment. The Jacobsens said, while there wasn’t very much data, they would expect the safety outcomes of e-scooters to be similar to biking and walking.
Our very rough fatalities analysis supports that idea. But if the injuries show something different, it will be interesting to see how that impacts the industry and the regulatory environment. It’s also possible it will help alleviate worries and lead to wider adoption.
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Source: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/12/19/deep-dive-are-e-scooters-unsafe-at-any-speed/
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Barbell Programming 1/27 through 1/31
Cycle 29 Week 4:
We are still in training mode this week. The goal is improved quality and confidence boosting. Next week we will begin to test our repetition work on squats, snatch, and C+J. Focus on recovery just as much as training.
Sunday 1/27
Snatch + Low Hang Snatch
50-70%/1+2×10
Romanian Deadlift – focus on stretch
X/10×3
Ring Rows
4×20
Box Push
4x30s
Monday 1/28
Vertical Hops
3×25
Jerk Drills
Clean + Jerk
60-75%/3×5
80-85%/1+1×3
Deadlift
75%/3, 85%/3, 95%/3, 110%/1
Squat
X/10×5
Bar Hang
4×30-45s
Partner Plank
4x30s
Tuesday 1/29
Tall Snatch
X/3×4
Deadlift + Snatch
60-75%/3+1×7
Snatch
80%/1×3
Snatch Hold at Knee
80%/max time
Behind Neck Jerk
Light/5×5
Ring Row
4×20
Good Morning (narrow+squat+sumo)
4×10+10+10
Wednesday 1/30
Lateral Hops over PVC
3×25
Jerk Drills
Tall Clean + Jerk
X/3+1×5
Clean + Low Hang Clean + Jerk
60-70%/1+2+1×5
Box Push
4x30s
Dual Overhead Carry
4x30s
Thursday 1/31
Jumping Squats
3×25
Block or Floor Snatch
60-75%/5×5
80-85%/1×3
Squat
X/10×5
Behind Neck Press
Light/15×3
Bar Hang
4×30-45s
Partner Plank
4x30s
Source: https://crossfitnyc.com/2019/01/25/barbell-programming-1-27-1-31/
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A talk about Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers tonight at MoRUS
A last-minute listing via the EVG inbox today...
Ben Morea is going to be onhand tonight at 7 at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) for a discussion and screening of "Armed Love," Sean Stewart's short documentary profile of his time in the Lower East Side in the late 1960s.
In the film, Morea charts the evolution of Up Against the Wall/Motherfucker — the network of action-oriented radicals, freaks and street fighters who emerged out of the group surrounding the journal Black Mask during the late 1960s in New York City.
Find more details at this link.
MoRUS is located at 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
Source: https://evgrieve.com/2019/06/a-tlak-about-up-against-wall.html
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Tuesday’s Headlines: Where’s Bill Edition
I got into the business when Ed Koch was still mayor. Then I covered little bits of the Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations. All of those guys, in their own way, hated the press. But at least they took questions from reporters every single day. So I’m just going on notice that the next time Mayor de Blasio decides to hold a press avail — which isn’t today, by the way — I’m coming with a full notepad and lots of memos I’ve been writing on cocktail napkins for at least a week. One of them says, “Dyckman.” One of them says, “Morris Park Avenue.” One of them says, “Queens Boulevard.” Another says, “Marty Golden.” And there’s another I can’t really read, but it may simply be a reminder not to forget my mother’s birthday.
Here’s the news:
I have to say I was a bit confused by the headline on NPR’s story about scooters, “As E-Scooters Roll Into American Cities, So Do Safety Concerns.” You guys do understand that car drivers killed more than 37,000 people last year, right? Kinda puts the “scooter threat” in perspective a bit, dontcha think?
The Bike Snob goes after the Spandex set in his latest column. (Outside)
MTA announces a “haunted subway” for Halloween. What could go wrong? (Gothamist, amNY)
OK, so maybe I was a bit harsh on Senator Chuck Schumer yesterday, calling him out for not doing enough to fight Donald Trump’s right-wing assault on the judiciary, so today I want to thank our senior senator for his work on getting us some more legroom on airplanes.
Mayor de Blasio confirms that he’s going with the “Promen-nada!” plan for the BQE repairs. (Brooklyn Paper)
Car2Go comes to Queens — and naturally residents are concerned about what they consider their parking spaces. (QNS)
Some great car mayhem shots from the great Paul Martinka. (Brooklyn Paper)
If you see lots of bus shelters blocked off this week, it’s because one fell apart in Staten Island and JCDecaux is doing the “abundance of caution” thing. (Patch, amNY, WSJ)
City DOT unveils a “left turn calming” program on Staten Island. Cue the locals who fail to react calmly to it (though Beep Jimmy Oddo likes it!). (Staten Island Advance)
Some Williamsburgers are calling for the reopening of the old Hope Street underpass under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which was closed in the 1990s because it was gross and everyone hated it. (Bklyner)
And, finally, wait, what?! Um, we have to do better, New York. This is an embarrassment. (NY Times)
Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/10/16/tuesdays-headlines-wheres-bill-edition/
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‘Grand Delancey’ Craft Beer Hall Announced for the Market Line
Photo: The Market Line
Essex Crossing needs its booze, too.
Grand Delancey, a craft beer hall with a derivative name, is the latest watering hole to litter the forthcoming Market Line. It’s purportedly pulling out all the stops; the press babble boasts “an unwavering commitment to procuring and purveying the best (and hardest-to-find) craft beers.” Settle down.
The venture will rotate a whopping 1,200 beers through a 50-tap draft system, while also offering cask ales and a reserved bottle selection.
Over 1,200 craft beers, but unlikely they’ll have anything from Treehouse Brewing.
Grand Delancey is the brainchild of the DC-based Neighborhood Restaurant Group. It debuts sometime in the fall.
Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2019/07/grand-delancey-craft-beer-hall-announced-for-the-market-line/
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James W. Cole's Eclectic 1890 177 Waverly Place
The venerable two-story brick-faced frame house at No. 177 Waverley Place had become a rooming house by the late 1870's. Among tenants were Martha McFarland and her son, William David, who was attending New York City College; and Richard C. Bolton, a clerk. One by one similar Federal-style homes would soon be disappearing in Greenwich Village, replaced by commercial or apartment buildings.
On March 1, 1890 developer William Ranking purchased No. 177 from Anna M. Hoch. He paid the widow $9,000 for the property; about $256,000 today. Any roomers in the house would quickly have to relocate; for just a month later, on April 18, architect James W. Cole filed plans for a five-story "stone flat" to cost $13,000. Ranking's total expenditure on the project would amount to $626,000 today.
The structure was built with lightning speed, and the first tenants moved in before the end of the year. Cole had created a hybrid of architectural styles. He faced the basement and first floor levels in undressed brownstone. That, along with the arched windows, echoed Romanesque Revival. The entrance, which perched above a shallow stone stoop, featured Corinthian pilasters and a bracketed entablature whose incised, stylized palmette designs hearkened back to Greek Revival.
The openings of the planar upper floors wore molded lintels and Italian Renaissance-inspired pediments. Their understated brackets were more in keeping with the neo-Grec style. An impressive cast metal cornice crowned the design.
Ranking quickly sold the building. On March 28, 1891 Samuel Aronson paid him $25,000. Ranking's 12-month investment earned him a profit equal to more than $75,000 in today's dollars.
The flats--just two per floor--became home to respectable middle-class residents. Among the first to move in was civil servant Dennis H. Foley. A Commissioner of Deeds, he was a low-level city government clerk who assisted notaries public.
Like Foley, the other residents held jobs which, while respectable, did not earn them lavish salaries. Anne M. Glass was a teacher, for instance, in 1898. She earned about $495 per year, or in the neighborhood of $15,000 today. The Cudibert family were in the building at the same time. Their son hoped to add to the family's income when he placed a situation wanted advertisement in the New York Journal on October 15 that year: "Boy, 18, experienced, willing, in machine shop."
By May 17, 1906 when Samuel Aronson sold the building to Charles Seidel and his wife, Millie, the second "e" in Waverly Place had been dropped in common usage. The Seidel family would retain ownership for decades.
George Wilkinson lived here in 1919 when Congress passed the Volstead Act, ushering in Prohibition. He worked for a man named Inteman as a trucker's delivery assistant. The company's offices were relatively nearby at 18th Street and Eighth Avenue. A delivery on the night of January 15, 1920 landed George and the trucker, William J. Flynn, in deep trouble.
The New York Herald reported that the men were arrested "while they were unloading cases of whiskey from a horse-drawn truck at a saloon at West and Liberty streets." They were charged with possessing liquor--and not a small amount. On their truck were 146 cases and a barrel of whiskey. The apprehension of the deliverymen did not sit well with thirsty bar patrons.
"When the two federal agents arrested the men they were immediately surrounded by a hostile crowd of men, whom they dispersed at the point of their revolver. The whiskey was seized."
In December 1921 Charles and Millie Seidel leased the building to Jesse Oppenheim. In signing the 21-year lease, the new proprietor intended to modernize the outdated structure. In reporting on the lease The New York Herald said "The property will be altered."
Oppenheim hired the architectural firm of B. H. & C. N. Whinston to update the Victorian building. The architects not only upgraded the infrastructure, like plumbing and electricity, they removed the stoop and installed a new foyer. Also included in the plans was an electric sign.
With the stoop removed and the entrance lowered, the transom above the double doors assumed mammoth proportions. Surviving the update is the fantastic cast iron fringe above the well-eroded cornice.
With his upgrades in place, Oppenheim placed an advertisement in The New York Herald in October 1922: "Just completed, 2 room kitchenette and bath suites, all the latest improvements."
The remodeled apartments continued to attract middle class tenants. Residents William R. Compton and William H. Sayre both passed the State bar exams in 1926. Architect George Provot moved into the building around the same time.
Born in New York, Provot had studied architecture for nine years in France, where he received his first degree in 1886. In 1889 he received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Columbia University. He was a member of the well-known firm of Welch, Smith & Provot before striking out on his own. He was still living at No. 177 Waverly Place when he died in the French Hospital on West 13th Street on July 9, 1936.
Other residents at the time were being scrutinized by the Government. Theodore and Sylvia Schwab, along with their neighbor Dora Sklar, were on a published list of Communist voters. The three were still here in 1940 when their signatures appeared on Communist Party petitions. Another resident, Ruth Levine, added hers as well.
Astonishingly, the 1890 interior shutters survive in the first floor, front apartment.
Having held onto the building for 35 years, in 1939 the Seidel family sold the building to real estate operator J. Perlow. As the decades passed, the tenant list continued to be middle class. By 1962 college student Bruce Brown was sharing an apartment with a classmate. That year his mother, Helen Gurley Brown, published her book Sex and the Single Girl.
The Addams-Family-appropriate light fixtures are especially eye-catching. Taking the shape of wyverns (two-legged dragons) the originals were produced in the 1890's, making them period appropriate. However, their crisp lines suggest they might be recent reproductions.
Despite his mother's progressive thinking, Bruce's father, David Brown, seems to have been a bit more conservative. According to biographer Gerri Hirshey in the 2016 Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown, he wrote to Bruce's girlfriend (and later wife), Kathy Ames, in 1963 saying in part that perhaps she could convince him to cut his hair.
Among the residents in the mid-1980's was illustrator Robert M. Cunningham.
Although the brownstone entrance has been seriously weather-eroded and the loss of the stoop is regrettable, James W. Cole's brooding Late Victorian flat building is an architectural treat.
photographs by the author
Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2019/05/james-w-coles-eclectic-1890-177-waverly.html
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The Charlotte M. Tytus House - 10 East 77th Street
Not only was Richard W. Buckley a partner with Robert McCafferty in the development firm of McCafferty & Buckley; he was the firm’s architect—a significant cost savings. In 1895 the partners started construction of seven high-end homes at Nos. 4 through 16 East 77th Street. Unlike the nearly identical high-stoop brownstones erected a generation earlier; McCafferty & each of Buckley’s handsome neo-Renaissance style residences, completed in 1897, was given its own personality. Perhaps to compensate for the sloop of the street, the two eastern-most houses were designed on the English basement plan, which provided them with high stone stoops.
Like its neighbors, the central house, No. 10, was 25-feet wide and rose five stories. An American basement dwelling, its entrance was just two steps above sidewalk level. The ground floor was clad in a seemingly random arrangement of small, rough-cut blocks. The understated entrance and the service doorway flanked a window. Directly above a wide, curved oriel all but engulfed the second floor where planar-faced limestone was interrupted by bands of undressed stone. The upper three floors were faced in sandy-colored Roman brick and trimmed in limestone. A pretty frieze of bows and swags ran below a band of egg-and-dart molding under the bracketed cornice.
No. 10 is the centerpiece of the odd-numbered row. Record & Guide, April 11, 1896 (copyright expired)
In 1897 McCafferty & Buckley sold the house to Charlotte Mathilda Tytus, widow of Edward Jefferson Tytus who had died in 1881 at the age of 35. Tytus had been a partner in the wholesale paper business Tytus, Van Buren & Company. Moving into the new house with Charlotte was her 20-year-old son, Robb de Peyster Tytus, who graduated from Yale that same year.
It was not long before Charlotte addressed what she apparently felt was a lack of light within the house. On November 18, 1898 architect W. H. Whittal filed plans for a "new glass and iron skylight." It was no small project, costing Charlotte the equivalent of more than $28,000 today.
An accomplished artist, Robb's sketches appeared in magazines. Many of them depicted scenes he captured while traveling abroad with his mother. He became fascinated with Egypt and, subsequently, archaeology. Before long the Tytuses visited that country annually. The Washington Times mentioned in 1903 that Robb "is not connected in business in any way in Egypt, but has a dahabieh, on which he and his mother take their winter excursion up the Nile."
The year 1903 was momentous for Robb de Peyster Titus. The New-York Tribune reported that Yale University "gave him a degree of A. M. for research work in Egypt" and on May 19 he was married to Grace Seeley Henop in Grace Church. The New Haven, Connecticut newspaper The Daily Morning Journal and Courier called it "one of the largest church weddings of the season." The New-York Tribune chimed in saying "The church was crowded with friends and acquaintances, among whom the old Knickerbocker element was largely represented." Indeed, among the families mentioned were Livingstons, Barnes, Stokes, Schieffelin, Gallatin, Duncan, and Potter.
Newspapers nationwide picked up on a detail of Grace's wardrobe. The South Carolina paper The County Record noted "The buckles on the bride's shoes were of rhine stones, the same worn by Dolly Madison at her wedding." The New-York Tribune reported "A part of the honeymoon will be spent at the bridegroom's camp in the Adirondacks, and afterward the couple will visit China and Japan, proceeding by way of India and the Red Sea to Egypt for a trip up the Nile next winter."
Robb de Peyster Tytus would go on to have a celebrated, if relatively brief career. With an English archaeologist he made several excavations in Egypt. The New York Times later recalled "he obtained from the Khedive of Egypt a concession to make explorations at Luxor, where he found, among other things, that King Amenhotep had built eight bathrooms of cement, with tubs twelve feet long, six feet wide and eighteen inches deep, for the use of the royal family." In 1907 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. He and Grace purchased a 1,500-acre estate in Tyringham, Massachusetts where he built a country villa costing more than $2.5 in today's dollars. He died of tuberculosis of the throat in August 1913.
In the meantime, with her son gone, Charlotte left the East 77th Street house, selling it to J. Horace Harding in March the following year. In reporting on the sale on April 2, 1904 the Real Estate Record & Guide noted "One of the fixtures of the house is a large pipe organ."
Born in Philadelphia, Harding had entered the banking profession at the age of 20. In 1898 he married Dorothea Barney, and was taken into her father's banking firm, Charles D. Barney & Co. (it would later become Smith-Barney). By the time the couple moved into the 77th Street house he was a partner with J. P. Morgan, the chairman of the board of the American Express Company, and a director in two dozen others.
He and Dorothea had four children, Charles, Catherine, Laura, and William Barclay. The couple were close friends with Henry Clay Frick and his wife and traveled with them to Europe on art-buying trips. The 77th Street house was filled with irreplaceable masterpieces and antique objets d'art.
Harding was an early automobile enthusiast. On March 24, 1905 The Sun reported on a shocking turn of events--the Morris Park raceway, long a haunt of the fashionable horse set, would be the scene of an automobile race. "In the wake of the horse comes the motor car," the article said. "The tracks of the famous ground where thousands have watched the thoroughbreds is to become a new home for automobile racing this summer."
Highly involved in the revolution was Harding, who had helped form the Morris Park Motor Club earlier that year. The Sun reported "J. Horace Harding, the Wall Street broker, and J. S. Bunting, both members of the Automobile Club of America, will be vice-president and treasurer, respectively."
His love of mechanized transportation had gotten him in trouble for speeding earlier that year. On February 20 The Sun reported "Bicycle Policeman Rensselaer saw a machine in which J. Horace Harding, the banker, and a chauffeur were riding. After a short chase they were overtaken and Mr. Harding went to the station and bailed out the driver, George Sailor."
It would appear that Harding had always intended his family's stay at No. 10 to be temporary. On November 15, 1905 The Evening Post had reported that construction had begun on a six-story mansion on Fifth Avenue designed by C. H P. Gilbert. Now, on March 7, 1908 the Record & Guide reported that Harding had sold No. 10. "He moves around the corner to 953 5th av, a beautiful modern residence." As an interesting side note, the couple escaped almost certain death by a caprice of fate four years later. Having toured Egypt with the Fricks, J. Horace and Dorothea took the parlor suite on the new R. M. S. Titanic after J. P. Morgan, who had initially booked the massive space--Suite B 52/54/56--changed his plans. But nearly at the last minute J. Horace was able to book an earlier ship. Their suite was then given to the White Star's director, J. Bruce Ismay.
In the meantime, stock broker Edmund Q. Trowbridge, senior member of Trowbridge & Co., was the buyer of the 77th Street house, title to which was put in his wife's name. He and his wife, the former Gertrude Harrison, had been married in London on July 1, 1901. Edmund had graduated from Yale University two years earlier. They had two daughters, Nancy and Barbara Harrison Trowbridge. The family maintained a summer house in Guilford, Connecticut.
The Trowbridges would remain at No. 10 for years. Barbara attended the exclusive Foxcroft School and was introduced to society in the fall of 1923 at the Colony Club. On May 15, 1925 her mother hosted a luncheon during which her engagement to Joseph Potter Murphy was announced. The wedding was held in the 77th Street house on November 4, 1925 with Nancy acting as her sister's maid of honor. The New York Times noted "Autumn foliage, palms and chrysanthemums decorated the house."
On July 8, 1927 The New York Sun reported that Gertrude had sold the house. The purchaser was John Howie Wright, president of the Dry Goods Credit Adjustment Corporation and editor of the magazine Postage. The family's summer home was Seaside Cottage at East Hampton, Long Island.
The Wright's daughter, Anne, enjoyed a privileged upbringing. On August 26, 1932 The East Hampton Star reported "Forty young summer residents were the guests of Miss Anne Wright on Saturday, at a party arranged by Mrs. John Howie Wright at the Devon Yacht Club, in celebration of her daughter's 12th birthday."
The house was the scene of a society wedding on September 4, 1937. The Mount Vernon, New York newspaper The Daily Argus reported that Betty Devine, Mrs. Wright's niece, would was married to George Byron Smith, 2nd, here. Both of their families lived in Pelham. Anne was a bridesmaid.
As Anne grew the social spotlight turned to her. Her coming out was celebrated in the fall of 1938. On November 14, 1938 The New York Sun reported, "Miss Anne Wright, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wright of 10 East Seventy-seventh street...will participate in the cavalcade of dances to be staged by Ned Wayburn as the feature of the Miami-Biltmore fashion show and ball to be held on December 16 at the Waldorf-Astoria as a benefit for the Goddard Neighborhood Center."
And a month later, on December 6, the newspaper wrote, "Miss Anne Wright, member of the junior committee for the Caucasian Allaverdy Ball to be held at the Plaza on December 9, agave a tea yesterday at her home, 10 East Seventy-seventh street, for the other members of the committee."
The Wrights sold No. 10 in July 1943, and in 1950 it was purchased by Daniel Saidenberg and his wife, Eleanor Block. Although Saidenberg's career had been as a cellist and conductor, and Eleanor had been a professional dancer in Chicago, they were now focused on modern European art. Eleanor had been working as a private art dealer since soon after moving to New York in 1943. Now the ground floor of No. 10 became the Saidenberg Gallery.
Theirs was a significant venue. In December 1955 they opened a Picasso exhibition, and they showed the works of artists like Paul Klee and George Braque. On November 10, 1959 The New York Times' John Canaday wrote "Picasso is with us again, this time in an exhibition called 'Faces and Figures' at the Saidenberg Gallery, 10 East Seventy-seventh Street. For some reason the master's social aplomb is more apparent than usual. The seventeen paintigs are dominated by half a dozen of such witty elegance that the charging bull of modern art appears to have been caught in a moment of atypical amiability."
Among the Picasso paintings in the 1959 exhibition was the 1909 Portrait of Manuel Pallares (from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts)
The Saidenbergs sold No. 10 in January 1964 to the Government of the Union of Burma for use as its Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The New York Times reported the $300,000 price was paid in cash. Now the Permanent Mission of Myanmar, it continues to own the property.
Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-charlotte-m-tytus-house-10-east.html
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Match Recap: NYCFC 0-1 Atlanta
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Atlanta Goals: Remedi 37'
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New York City FC will travel to Atlanta United chasing a deficit after Eric Remedi scored the only goal of the Eastern Conference semifinals first leg in the Bronx.
Tata Martino's men scrambled one in on 37' to consign City to defeat in a fragmented, physical match of few clear chances.
Match Recap
City’s first-ever Knockout Round win vs. Philadelphia sent them into their third-successive Eastern Conference semifinal with positive momentum but Atlanta United promised to offer a sterner examination of City’s Playoff credentials.
Dome Torrent stuck with the same XI which bested The Union 3-1 in the Bronx on Wednesday, keeping faith with Ronald Matarrita and Isi Tajouri-Shradi on either side of David Villa at the sharp end of the field.
The 180’ of soccer offered up in the Regular Season by these two teams were among the most riveting served up by MLS in 2018 but the first 45’ here was much more attritional than captivating, with 22 fouls and numerous stoppages seriously hampering the entertainment factor.
NYCFC were first to go close in the match on 16’ when Matarrita poked wide a presentable opportunity after neat work from Villa and Yangel Herrera in the build-up, while Maxime Chanot headed a chance wide from a corner shortly after.
Atlanta had the ball in the back of the net on 21’ when Miguel Almiron thumped a volley into the ground and over Sean Johnson but VAR intervened and chalked off the goal for an offside earlier in the move.
That reprieve only lasted 15 minutes as Atlanta did take the lead on 37’ through Eric Remedi, who scrambled home an opportunity at the back post after Johnson had pawed away a goalbound header.
City had been inhibited up to this point but they had cause to rue an officiating decision themselves in first-half stoppage-time, when Herrera stabbed home at the back post from a Villa bicycle kick which was deemed dangerous play for the high boot.
Down at the break, a big 45’ was required to give NYC something to take down south with them next weekend and Jo Inge Berget was sent on early in the second period to try and find it.
The Norwegian went closest to finding the equalizer on 73’ with an outstretched leg almost turning Tajouri-Shradi cross-shot into the net but the ball would fall the wrong side of the far post.
Four minutes later, Jesus Medina was introduced as the second substitute by Torrent but there were no more chances served up by the Boys in Blue, and in fact it was Atlanta who went closest to scoring the game's second goal with a shot in stoppage-time which forced an incredible save from Johnson.
It was a frustrating night for the home faithful but NYC will go again next Sunday and look to overturn the deficit on the road.
NYCFC.com Star of the Game
Maxime Chanot
On a day when the game didn't flow as fluently as it might have, Maxime was a strong presence at the back for NYCFC, helping City through the tough stretches of the match with some body-on-the-line defending and numerous instances where he demonstrated his excellent reading of the game.
Capping a terrific individual performance, our Luxembourg international defender had prevented Atlanta a clear shot on goal with an incredible last-ditch tackle in second half stoppage-time just before Johnson's big save.
Could that be looked back on as a pivotal sequence in the tie next weekend? Let's hope so.
Starting XI
NYCFC XI: Johnson, Tinnerholm, Callens, Chanot, Sweat, Ring, Herrera, Moralez, Tajouri-Shradi, Matarrita, Villa (C)
Subs: Stuver, Ibeagha, Amagat, Medina, Ofori, Castellanos, Berget
What’s Next…
Leg Two takes place in Atlanta at the Mercedes Benz Stadium on Sunday, November 11 (time TBD).
Source: https://www.nycfc.com/post/2018/11/04/match-recap-nycfc-0-1-atlanta
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Win tickets (+ merch bundle!) to REAL FRIENDS at Irving Plaza on 11/18!
We have a pair of tickets to give away to see REAL FRIENDS with BOSTON MANOR, GRAYSCALE and EAT YOUR HEART OUT at Irving Plaza on Sunday, November 18th!
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Real Men Cook to celebrate generosity at 30-year Father’s Day milestone
This Year Real Men Cook will celebrate 30 years of celebrating men on Father’s Day on Sunday, June 16, 2019, with cookouts in three major cities. It has become one of the premiere events for African American men and their families to participate in or attend in Chicago.
By The Chicago Crusader
Real Men Cook–Chicago’s premiere urban Father’s Day charity event — marks its 30-year milestone this year. The food-tasting event’s purpose is to uplift families, promote wellness and highlight positive Black male engagement. This year’s celebration is being held on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16 from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Hales Franciscan, an all-male high school located at 4930 S. Cottage Grove, in Chicago’s Bronzeville community.
Real Men Cook is the largest, longest-running and most-anticipated Father’s Day celebration of its kind. It provides a platform where “real men” from all walks of life give up Father’s Day pampering to work and be celebrated for demonstrating extraordinary commitment to their families and to their communities.
In making the announcement, Ayinde Cartman, executive director of Real Men Charities — the presenting nonprofit — stated that the longevity of Real Men Cook is testimony to its endurance as a must-attend family celebration and to the community’s embrace of its mission. He added that this year’s event will feature the standard fare of celebration, food, family and fun but will include reflections on its history with tributes to the founders, cooks, volunteers — the heroes and heroines behind the event’s success.
He added that this year’s gala will be driven by the hashtag #RealMen30, which will be a landing spot where well wishes will be placed.
“We are excited to reach this 30-year journey,“ Rael Jackson, long-time Real Men Cook director, declared. “I have grown up with Real Men Cook. Seeing how far we’ve come and understanding the commitment by participants is amazing. It is also fantastic to see these men bring their culinary artistry and their families each year in a spirit of love.”
Explained Cartman, “All my life these men of Real Men Cook have devoted countless volunteer hours and resources to cook their favorite dishes and serve. It is inspiring because the overarching goal is to influence young men to serve and grow their families and communities throughout the year.”
The event will continue a Real Men Charities, Inc. tradition of promoting health and wellness, prevention and awareness for families and children. Accordingly, men will be serving traditional dishes as well as healthy, fresh and vegan dishes. They will also be broadcasting the message that every day food selections can help to prevent disease.
Cartman stressed that over the years, Real Men Cook has grown into a Movement. “Life is about change,” he declared, “and we welcome change. At the same time, Real Men Cook has remained true to its original mission of promoting healthy families and keeping the good men movement vibrant while engaging every segment of our community. We are encouraged and humbled that there was such an outpouring of love to Real Men Cook over the years and over the decades. Family and community love symbolize the spirit of the day!”
Celebrities, media personalities, ministers, politicians, entertainers, athletes, local community leaders, chefs and everyday hard-working fathers and father figures will participate as part of their resolve to defy the negative images often depicted in the media.
Some of the high-profile men who have participated in the past include U.S. Senator Barack Obama, actors Idris Elba, Mel Jackson, Shemar Moore and Anthony Anderson, Grammy Award winner and hip-hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith, comedian/actor J. Anthony Brown, civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis as well as legislator Danny Davis and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The event attracts a host of father/son combos who come together to cook, connect and strengthen their ties. Among the fathers and sons who have attended are former Senate President Emil Jones and his son Senator Emil Jones, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and his sons, former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Professor Jonathan Jackson, the late Alderman and Mayor Eugene Sawyer and his sons, Roderick and Shedrick. Tom Joyner’s sons have also represented and paid tribute to their dad at Real Men Cook.
For more information, visit www.realmencharitiesinc.org.
Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/real-men-cook-to-celebrate-generosity-at-30-year-fathers-day-milestone/
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UPDATE: Cyclist is Killed in Queens — The Sixth This Year
A cyclist was struck and killed on Borden Avenue in Long Island City on Thursday morning — on a stretch of roadway where locals demanded more protection for bicyclists and pedestrians.
An NYPD spokesman said cyclist Robert Spencer, 53, was traveling westbound on Borden Avenue at around 7:51 a.m. when he was struck by the 51-year-old driver of a Chevy Cruze, who was heading southbound on Second Street in the industrial part of the booming neighborhood. The driver of the Cruze remained on the scene.
Spencer was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he died.
Some more pics of the car:
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— Walking LIC (@LICwalkers) March 15, 2019
“There are no charges at this time,” the spokesman said, “but the investigation is ongoing.”
This is the 6th!! bicyclist killed in NYC so far in 2019, and we're not even in mid-March. When will this carnage end? Why do we have to beg every single f** CB to get safer infrastructure, @NYCMayor ??? THIS IS A KNOWN DANGEROUS LOCATION!!! https://t.co/MQlUgyWw0e
— Angela Stach (@radlerkoenigin) March 14, 2019
Though the area is industrial, it is next to a new park and is quickly becoming a residential area. There is a protected bike lane on Second Street, but not on Borden, which is wide and dangerous. As such, residents of a building one block from the death site wrote to the city and their Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer demanding a two-way protected bike lane on Borden from Vernon Boulevard to the waterfront park and other safety measures “such as speed bumps, raised pedestrian crossings, etc.”
“The natural makeup of the long straight sections of road encourages reckless driving,” wrote the shareholders of the Murano, a condo building between Vernon and Fifth. “In addition to speeding, we have seen drivers failing to yield to pedestrians, in addition to numerous instances of double parking on a daily basis.”
THIS! Exactly THIS! These CB2 "community leaders" should have been removed from office a long time ago. https://t.co/vClrR4owij
— Angela Stach (@radlerkoenigin) March 14, 2019
Van Bramer, who helped get the park built, supported the local effort.
“In response to constituent concerns, I wrote a letter to the DOT on March 4, raising issues about this location and informing the DOT that I believe the residents’ requests for traffic calming measures, including a protected bike lane on Borden, are reasonable and should be pursued,” he told Streetsblog.
The unidentified cyclist would be the sixth death of a bicyclist so far this year. On Feb. 28, cyclist Aurilla Lawrence was killed by a hit-and-run driver who has not been caught.
In all of 2018, 10 cyclists were killed.
The crash site is in an industrial zone. Photo: @licwalkers
To put all the carnage in perspective, in 2018, there were 4,854 reported crashes in the 108th Precinct, or roughly 13 per day. Those crashes resulted in reported injuries to 84 cyclists, 169 pedestrians and 998 motorists, with one pedestrian and two motorists dying. Many other injuries were not reported.
In the wake of the crash, Transportation Alternatives’ Senior Director of Advocacy Tom DeVito issued a statement:
Borden Avenue connects the southern end of the Long Island City waterfront with the Vernon Boulevard business district and the Pulaski Bridge. The block where this crash occurred is the weak link in an otherwise protected bike lane network along Center Boulevard and 2nd Street.
Not satisfied with the “sharrows” in the New York City Department of Transportation’s current design, residents of a nearby building lobbied their local community board for protected bike lanes along Borden Avenue, but the community board refused to consider their request. The street should be redesigned without delay.
Even so, a piecemeal approach to redesigning known dangerous streets is no way to achieve Vision Zero. That’s why we’re calling on the City Council to take up the bill which would establish a “Vision Zero Street Design Standard,” a protocol designed to ensure that proven safety improvements on our streets are made as a matter of course with every redesign and not held up due to petty politics. The Vision Zero Design Standard bill has been debated for over a year and a half and, with 44 co-sponsors, has overwhelming support. There is no reason this shouldn’t be law already.
We’re on pace to see three times as many people killed while biking in 2019 than the total killed in 2018. We shouldn’t wait for people to die to fix our streets. Council Speaker Johnson and Mayor de Blasio must make passing the Vision Zero Street Design Standard legislation a top priority.
The Department of Transportation said in a statement that it has added “enhanced” crosswalks and painted curb extensions at Fifth Street from Borden Avenue to 46th Avenue, and also converted a portion of Fifth Street to a one-way street.
“With regards to this recent tragedy, DOT will look into potential safety enhancements at Borden Ave and Second Street, as we do following any fatality,” said spokeswoman Alana Morales.
The agency says it has bigger plans for a major street reconstruction in the Long Island City/Hunters Point area, though it is unclear when that will happen.
Story was updated at 5:10 p.m. to add a quote from the Department of Transportation.
Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/03/14/breaking-cyclist-is-killed-in-queens/
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