Williamsburg Bridge
District Leaders Urge DOT Chair to Better Address Traffic Bottleneck at Grand and Clinton
Posted April 23, 2018 at 5:00 am
The bottleneck blues continues at the junction of Grand and Clinton Streets. Being a major access point to the Williamsburg Bridge from the FDR, this spot perennially attracts a line of cars that usually snakes eastward for blocks. The addition of Essex Crossing in the immediate vicinity (residential and commercial) doesn’t help matters, either. Ongoing […]
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Traffic Cop Sentenced 12 Years for Fatal Williamsburg Bridge Crash Last Year
Posted February 1, 2018 at 5:12 am
The drunk off-duty traffic cop who crashed while speeding across the Williamsburg Bridge last year, killing his 21-year-old passenger, was sentenced to up to 12 years in state prison last week. It was March 2017 when the drunk driving Stefan Hoyte hit 111 mph while crossing the span, nearly four times the legal limit. He […]
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Dashane Santana Memorialized on Delancey Street 6 Years After Her Death
Posted January 30, 2018 at 5:03 am
Next month marks six years from the date 12-year-old Dashane Santana was struck and killed in the Delancey Street crosswalk at the intersection of Clinton. To honor her memory, family members created a makeshift memorial in the pedestrian plaza at the entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge. There are electric candles, photos, and letters to Dashane. […]
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Town Hall Tonight to Discuss Grand Street Traffic Bottleneck at Williamsburg Bridge Approach
Posted January 11, 2018 at 5:02 am
Tonight, Lower East Side residents can vocalize their displeasure about the ongoing nightmare known as the Grand and Clinton Street traffic jam. A Town Hall forum has been orchestrated by the Grand Street Democrats to raise awareness and solutions to City officials surrounding what’s becoming an increasingly dangerous quality-of-life issue for those living in the […]
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Take it to the Bridge: Overwhelming Support for Sonny Rollins on the LES
Posted December 21, 2017 at 5:11 am
In retrospect, it was apparently a race to name Lower East Side infrastructure after Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. While Essex Crossing just anointed one of its luxury rental buildings in the name of Rollins (Site 5), the earlier effort at another area renaming remains underway. You remember – that months-old grassroots campaign to likewise rechristen […]
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About those Ubiquitous Williamsburg Bridge Stickers You See Around the LES
Posted December 5, 2017 at 5:07 am
Support local businesses, local artists, and local friends. LESNYC has been around a long time. Well, in the new dog years of the Lower East Side, anyway. Once upon a time, businesses pushed six decades; now if they last six months, it’s a gosh-darn miracle. Despite that, the revolving door hasn’t pushed out Steve Hernandez because […]
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Councilman Introduces Bill to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge After Sonny Rollins
Posted October 18, 2017 at 5:00 am
For one Lower East Sider, the quest to rename the Williamsburg Bridge after Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins just took a major step forward. City Council is now reviewing a bill that would make this happen. In response to this community led effort, Brooklyn Councilman Stephen Levin introduced the bill, which is also supported by Brooklyn […]
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Did you See the Silver ‘Spaceship’ Cruising Down Delancey Street Last Weekend?
Posted August 17, 2017 at 5:11 am
If you happened to be crossing Delancey Street on Sunday afternoon, you may have spotted the so-called “Spaceship Tank” driving eastward over the Williamsburg Bridge. You may have also whispered to yourself, “what the fuck was that.” Now we know. Apparently, a Brooklyn man named Charles Walters constructed the extraterrestrial transport by encasing a Chevrolet […]
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As Promised, City Stations 2 Traffic Agents at Problematic Grand Street Intersection
Posted June 26, 2017 at 5:11 am
Here’s some election year politics at its best. Host a mayoral town hall (for District 1), then satisfy a few voters in the immediate aftermath. One Grand Street resident, frustrated with the lack of attention to the traffic bottlenecks on Grand Street, demanded that the administration act to change the status quo. He asked Mayor […]
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There is a Petition to Close Clinton Street Approach to the Williamsburg Bridge
Posted May 15, 2017 at 5:13 am
When the decision was made by Department of Transportation to open a new entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge via Clinton Street a few years ago – it was in response to the tragic death of Dashane Santana on Delancey in 2012 – bottlenecks began instantly, and backed up to the FDR. It created a situation […]
