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If you haven't seen the article in today's Streetsblog, we need a solution! https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/21/eyes-on-the-street-the-unsafe-manhattan-end-of-the-queensboro-bridge?utm_content=buffer3cef5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Experience the newest plaza in NYC with a wonderfully, hypnotic design with about a dozen different options and eclectic designs to sit in the street.

I don't know why Manhattan was so over-policed while Brooklyn (yes smaller, shorter) seemed almost under-policed! The only place there was any substantial presence was at the two activity centers at either end of the Summer Street.

My favorite "unofficial" part of the Broadway segment #SummerStreets!

The Broadway segment was much better from a security/NYPD segment this third go around.

BUT as you probably know they cram all runners/peds/bikes to one side of B'way (unlike on Park) leaving one side completely open. While riding up and back I periodically noticed a peloton of riders jump on or delivery workers, etc go on it with NYPD basically ignoring them and letting them go. So I went over and for 20 blocks, taping THIS for the last dozen. Not one peep.

It was unlike anything I've ever experienced. Zero cars. Zero parked. Zero cross traffic. Nearly zero peds. Look at that! This is roughly from 120th to 112th with a gimbal in my hand until I joined back up on the actual course. NYC can be beautiful.

I covered this very briefly a few years back but this is my first adventure inside of one!

Today I had an assignment to help out with a video package for a group of runners using Summer Streets for training. I had another idea to shoot but had a mechanical issue on my bike so I found myself sans bike for over an hour and so I shot this instead as I was hanging around the viaduct.