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Streetopia Upper West Side

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Streets are for people, not cars. We inspire and organize our neighbors on Manhattan's Upper West Side to realize the potential of streets and public space to improve health, increase opportunity, and connect each of us to our community. streetopia.city

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 22/05/2026
Mayor Mamdani is defending the 72nd Street redesign against opposition from a tiny cohort of residents that claims the design is radical — even though it has been successfully deployed across the city for nearly 20 years.
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Mamdani Says He'll Back DOT Against Bikelash in W. 72nd St. Safety Revamp - Streetsblog New York City
Unlike his predecessor, Mamdani vowed to not throw his Department of Transportation under the bus.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This month CB7 passed a “public safety” resolution about the menace of e-bikes, yet motor vehicles continue to pose orders of magnitude more risk and potential for harm than even the heaviest, fastest e-bike. We need to design car supremacy out of our public spaces and transportation networks.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It’s shaping up to be a gorgeous day tomorrow ☀️😎🚲 What better way to kick it off than by joining a whole bunch of your friends, families, and neighbors for a short and joyful group bike ride to support the proposed redesign of West 72nd Street. Details at the link below. Hope to see you there!
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New Yorkers, join us this Saturday, May 16, for an all-ages-and-abilities group ride on the Upper West Side to show support for proposed improvements to West 72nd Street, including what will be the neighborhood’s first crosstown protected bike lane. www.streetopia.city/events/group...
A photomontage of children and families riding bikes on some of the Upper West Side’s current protected bike lanes set over a picture of West 72nd Street as it is today, with four vehicle lanes, two curb lanes, mostly used for parking, and no bike infrastructure, despite it being a popular and logical route for people on bikes to get across town between Central Park and Riverside Park. Build the damn bike lane already.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our latest newsletter gets into the mounting NIMBY drama around rather basic upgrades proposed for West 72nd Street. We’ve seen it all before. action.openplans.org/mail-message...
A too wide, mostly empty street with a cyclist in a suit jacket on a grey Citi Bike riding in the middle of four vehicle travel lanes past two city buses and a double parked delivery truck. The sky is blue and the sun is shining, but this street is definitely not the “envy of the world”.
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Open Plans @openplans.org · 15/04/2026
The DOT’s design addresses the same thing we found: the current street is outdated, a relic of 20th century car-centric planning, and doesn’t support today's users and needs. Learn more about our work reimagining W 72nd Street: www.streetopia.city/reimagining-... @streetopia.bsky.social
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Reimagining West 72nd — Streetopia Upper West Side
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Open Plans @openplans.org · 15/04/2026
After years of researching and advocating for this, we are thrilled it's finally happening! Most people using 72nd street are bus riders, micromobility users, and pedestrians, but the current street doesn't reflect this. This design will improve things for everyone.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Come join our team! You’ll help build grassroots support for our campaigns to transform the UWS into the walkable, bikeable, transit-forward utopia it deserves to be. What’s more fun than talking to people about the possibilities for their n’hood and working with them to make it happen? ✨🚶🏽‍♀️👩🏻‍🦽🚲🚌🌳
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Here’s the shape of the Central Park West bike lane this past weekend, several weeks after this winter’s snowstorms. It’s time this bike lane got a proper upgrade: real protection, wider lanes, and make it two-way. Also, can we fully clear the lane of snow next time? @nyc-dot.bsky.social
A green-painted, one-way separated bike lane next to a wide two-way, four lane street. Neglected grime-covered snow mounds obstruct half the width of the bike lane. There are several plastic flex posts  sticking out of the leftover snow, presumably dislodged and deposited there by snow plows. A lone flex post remains adjacent to the vehicle lanes where its flex post companions once stood.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It’s time for LTNs in NYC on the UWS. This video helps explain.
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Open Plans on Instagram: "Take a look at London’s impressive Low Traffic Neighborhoods! Residents, advocates & elected leaders shared how they have transformed their local streets to quiet, peaceful &...
949 likes, 23 comments - openplansnyc on February 4, 2026: "Take a look at London’s impressive Low Traffic Neighborhoods! Residents, advocates & elected leaders shared how they have transformed their ...
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A plea to Council Member @shaunabreu.bsky.social: please get off X/Twitter and post to Bluesky instead. At a minimum, and maybe as an interim step, please cross post to Bluesky so advocates who left X/Twitter for moral reasons can still engage with you.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
@nyc-dot.bsky.social should designate a at least one loading zone in front of every large building on the UWS and shared loading zones on each block proportional to population density. CB7 can help decide where exactly the loading zones go on the block, but they don’t get to grant permission.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Easy to imagine these kinds of simple and amazingly effective treatments on the UWS. How about it @nyc-dot.bsky.social and @galeabrewer.bsky.social ?
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s time for a mayor willing to think big and deliver on people-first streets. Here’s one idea for a quick win. www.streetopia.city/reimagining-...
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Reimagining West 72nd — Streetopia Upper West Side
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
UWS Council Member Gale Brewer has been in office for 24 years yet the streets of her district are stuck in the past 🚗💨😷 We've made it easy to send her a letter to encourage her to use her final term in the Council to become a livable streets champion & leave a legacy of people first public space.
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Tell Gale Brewer to Think Bigger - StreetopiaUWS
Gale Brewer is about to enter her 25th year in elected office. Now is a great time to encourage her to use the next four years to help turn the Upper West Side into the preeminent livable neighborhood...
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“You can’t tell me a parking space at the corner of a street is worth a life.” Advocates are in front of the district office of @galeabrewer.bsky.social this morning to ask her why she changed her mind and no longer supports universal daylighting in NYC.
A group of people gathered on the sidewalk in front Council Member Gale Brewer’s district office. A group of people gathered on the sidewalk in front Council Member Gale Brewer’s district office. A sign held up in front of Gale Brewer’s office that reads “You supported safety, Gale. Don’t turn your back now.”
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Headshot of a smiling Tim Gill
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
@nyc-dot.bsky.social is making up math here. There are roughly 300 intersections on the UWS or ~2,400 potential daylighting spots, many of which are already bus stops or fire hydrants. @galeabrewer.bsky.social got some bad information. Why are we bean counting street safety in the first place?
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Should we teach 8 year olds how to move “defensively” through their neighborhoods just to stay alive? Or is the assumption that kids will be escorted everywhere (by a properly defensive adult) until their executive function is fully developed? That’s quite a bleak view of childhood & community.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If you’re on the west side today, stop by the West Side County Fair on Pier I and tell us what you think is the “Best Block in the UWS” We’re just getting started and will be here all day. C’mon down!
A woman standing at a table in the sun on a pier under a viaduct next to a poster that says: “what’s the BEST BLOCK on the Upper West Side and why?”
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The demand to cycle for transportation is undeniable among every age group across the city. The only thing holding us back is incomplete infraction and a political bias toward the status quo. It’s time for leadership that understands the value of positive change and has the will to make it happen.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Everybody’s in favor of 'safety,' but compared to what? That’s the question: what are you willing to sacrifice for safety?"
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
City Hall’s interference here at the behest of @galeabrewer.bsky.social sets a terrible precedent and risks compromising future street improvement projects, almost all of which will require converting some amount of free parking to a use that serves a broader & more diverse segment of the community.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is incredibly disappointing from @galeabrewer.bsky.social.
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Open Plans @openplans.org · 24/06/2025
How can we reclaim our streets with Low-Traffic Neighborhoods? Join the conversation with Jon Jon Wesolowski this Tuesday July 1st at 6:30PM to learn how we can create safer, more local streets. 📍Hi-Note - 188 Ave B RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-europ... @1014nyc.bsky.social
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Bike Talk @biketalk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We predict the war on e-bikes will run out of gas, and the apocalypse will be gentler than advertised. biketalk.org/2025/06/2522... @streetopia.bsky.social @openplans.org @consumerreports.org @transalt.org @sbalkan5.bsky.social
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#2522 – Criminalization of Bikes in NYC and Biking in The Apocalypse - Bike Talk
Listener email: the difference between bike packing and bike touring, and what handlebar bags and panniers to get (1:11). New York City has begun a policy of criminalizing minor traffic violations for...
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
High quality bike lanes make cycling more appealing and accessible to more people. This is not a high quality bike lane.
A block of the Amsterdam Ave protected bike lane on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with an enormous puddle that is half the width of the lane.A different block of the Amsterdam Ave protected bike lane with another enormous puddle.Yet another block of the Amsterdam Ave protected bike lane with chipped paint, eroded pavement, and yes, you guessed it, another enormous puddle.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Thank you for speaking out, Council Member. Targeting bicyclists with criminal summonses does nothing to make our streets safer, particularly when car drivers inflict orders of magnitude more harm to everyone—pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Daylighting is good and popular policy that makes streets safer for everyone, especially pedestrians. We’re grateful to @galeabrewer.bsky.social for her support of @council.nyc.gov bill Int 1138 which would require NYC to *follow state law* and implement daylighting across the city.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Inspired Infrastructure got inspired by our W 72nd St vision. Check it out:
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Fixing NYC’s 72nd Street: A People-First Vision
YouTube video by Inspired Infrastructure
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This 💯 The Upper West Side of Manhattan has about 10K parking spots, most of them free. That’s ~40 miles of parked cars in an area of just 2 sq mi. It’s a complete degradation of nearly all public space in the neighborhood. Just ask the kids who go to school on the street in this picture.
An ordinary looking urban street with three story institutional buildings on each side that are partially blocked from view by rows of parked cars making the street feel dead and lifeless.
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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ride along with the UWS’s very own bike bus. Activism that’s fun and healthy and create’s community all at the same time.
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