I know this particular stretch of bike lane. It goes nowhere. I think the city must have painted it there to either a) impress upon tourist how bike friendly the city is, or b) to piss off TA when all the police and press vehicles park on it, or c) all of the above.

It is next to City Hall so it's probably a Mayoral vehicle.

take the cops right to park anywhere they want and trust me, they will make the public pay dearly...such as 100 parkers a day times 9000 cops thats 900,000 new yorkers pissed off even more than watching the nypd or other city agency park illgally. and if you think 100 a day is too much its not, try stop your car for a second on the side of the road ...double parker. sure you can fight this but you will most likely lose, winning in city parking court is like nazi germany granting jewish rights.

#11 -- if this website could really be such an amazing spur to police productivity, we should figure out how to get a consulting contract.

I think you're mistaken #1 about this lane going nowhere. This bike lane connects chambers street and Lower Lafayette to Centre street and the bike lane to the Brooklyn Bridge. It is also the southbound bike lane from the bridge from Centre to Broadway. A major thoroughfare. Without it, the only safe access to the bridge it to ride along the sidewalk in next to City Hall, which is both illegal and dangerous.

I really don't think this is a bike lane, maybe it was at one time but I don't remember one going down Park Row. Are there signs stating it like the Brooklyn post? After the Brooklyn bridge it's just a loop to Broadway. Maybe the bike lane ends at Brooklyn Bridge.
I'm only mentioning this because MTA buses station there because it's the end of their City Hall run, then they take the loop back around Park Row for the Northbound portion of route.
I'm sure post 9/11 things have changed even more with the Mayor closing off parts of City Hall and City Hall park.

#13 I don't think I am mistaken. There is no bike lane on Chambers last time I checked. (I am a cyclist so I notice these things.) The bike lane on Centre is on the east side north bound lane. This lane begins at Chambers, runs south a few hundred yards just past the bridge entrance and ends at the bus stops on Park Row. It is probably wishful thinking on the part of the city that it serves some real purpose but it doesn't. In fact, it probably just encurages cyclist going north on Park Row to cross over and ride illegally against traffic to get to Centre St.

That doesn't mean that a cyclist can't ride south from Lafayette or east from Chambers to get to Park Row and B'Way or the BB. But 200 yards of a bike lane seems like a conceit given the fact that police and press vehicles have always been and are always going to be parked there given the city hall location.

Cyclist have as much right to a traffic lane as any other vehicle. I love bike lanes but the logistics of this particular short stretch of prime road real estate are probably too tight of accomodate one. Maybe the city should just bite the bullet and put a two way bike lane on the sidewalk paved area as it is very wide here. There are some spots in Battery Park where this is the solution. I don't see why this wouldn't work here as well.

That is a car assigned to the Mayor's Staff group. Let's see how far you get complaining about this one.

Is Pennsylvania,CT and NJ That much cheaper to live than Rockland or Suffolk?
What exactly is the difference? You're still out of the five boroughs.
How about having the city give those who live in the five boroughs extra money because you're living in NYC and not Rockland, putnam, orange, nassau or Suffolk counties.
I don't follow the moving out of State and taking their cars with them analogy.
You'll still need your car to commute.
I know some city agencies have a strict NYC residency policy. You're lucky you can live in Rockland, orange, putnam, nassau and suffolk counties.
Working for NYS is less strict, you can live in NJ.

19...
hmm when was the last time you heard of a one bedroom 600 sq foot condo in NJ costing 300,000 plus dollars????? as for lucky people can live in the surrounding counties...it would be impossible for people to live in NYC and get paid what they do witout a second income to get by. Ever wonder why all other jurisdictions pay cops fire and others at min 10,000 a year more, its because its impossible to live in nassau and suffolk county without that income. as for rockland ,orange and putnum you'll be adding 8 dollar a day tolls, plus 60 plus miles worth of gas ONE WAY (if you want affordable houseing prices based on salary), NJ last time i checked was only six dollars a day, plus as close as 30 miles round trip. Not to mention that NYPD makes only 59,588 top pay where:
suffolk pd: 94,417
Nassau pd: 92,432
Westchester PD: 80,366
Port Auth PD: 80,720
NYSTATE PD: 75,678
DID i miss any? i'm sure i did, but you get the point

according to number 19 city workers should live as far as possible from their jobs, Rockland, putnam, orange, and sufflok counties. Yes they should pay us more to work in the city, equal to at least our metropolitan neighbors.

correct me if I'm wrong but aren't many members of the NYPD already living in Rockland, Nassau, Suffolk, Putnum, Orange, and Westchester?
So how is living in Penn, CT or NJ any different. It's not like the rents there are NYC rents.
You guys are already living as far away from the City. You hate the city and wouldn't want your child raised in NYC or go to it's public schools.
So back to the Out Of State argument. You mean living in bucks county in Penn is cheaper than in Ossining, NY or Spring Valley?

did he ever mention PA????

keep NOT backing the COPs and see how long your 800,000 dollar brownstone keeps its value. I remember the 80 and 90's when crime was high and property values were in the toilet. No one backed the cops then, so the cops sat back and said who cares let them burn the city to the ground. Now since Rudy crime is way down, property values way up. People once again are starting to NOT back the cops, calling them names and putting them on trial for doing their jobs in good faith.

if cops were getting paid 75 to 90 thousand like upstate nassau and suffolk then i would gladly pay any parking ticket i got, but with 59 thousand i can't afford to pay tickets and pay my 1200 a month rent.

come to think about it maybe its a good thing for cops if crime goes up because rent would come down and we could actually afford to live in this city once again, people wouldn't worry about parking because everyone would relocate out of the city and there would be no need to park on the streets anymore. i have solved the problem...LET CRIME GO UP, LET PROPERTY VAlUES GO DOWN AND ALL THE PARKING PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED

HIGH CRIME = PLENTY OF PARKING FOR ALL

$1200/mo rent on $59k/year? Consider yourself pretty fortunate - outside of Manhattan, most of NYC pays more than that in rent, and makes less. With no healthcare, pension, retirement plan, or parking priviledges.

#19... i can buy a house for 100k - 150k and fairly low property tax in PA... not a mansion but not bad either... the commute to NYC would suck but its a hell of alot cheaper then buying a house in queens for 450-800k

Again, I'm not talking about NYC (the five boroughs) We know the RE market there.
I'm asking what exactly is the difference between living and buying a house in Rockland, westchester, orange, nassau, suffolk or even Brewster AND living in CT, PA and NJ.
Why are so many against this out of state residency rule?

i'm a cop and have been for over 5 years. everyone i talk to would move out of state, mainly to NJ if the rule was changed, in a heartbeat. To be honest i would too, because the quality of life is much better. It is actually affordable out of state.

the argument for NJ in particular, is simple. It is relativily close to the city and affordable to live. the point you make about orange and rockland counties is bad because unless your a cop in the bronx it is a hell of a commute at anytime of the day to anywhere in the city, manhattan, brooklyn, queens, SI, not to mention tolls such as the two bridges you must cross costing 4.5 each way, (18 dollars a day for tolls), this is not including SI which has another bridge with a toll that i think is 9 dollars? It is really not right to have to commute 4 plus hours a day to work from rockland orange suffolk counties and pay 300 a month in tolls, when you can live much closer in NJ and pay far less 6 a day for the tunnel or bridge. Not to mention that NJ is still affordable. about 200k less for an actual house.

talk to any cop and ask that cop if they allowed out of state residency would you take it...and i'm sure they would say YES.

and yes they would not be parking in the residential streets clogging put the parking, because they would live out of state.

That's the first time I heard NJ and affordable in the same sentence.
I thought Bergen County was always on top as the most expensive places to live.
Unless one is in the hinterlands of NJ, mainly farm country but then your commute would still be 2 hrs one way.

i can drive from ocean county nj to NYC in about 1 hour 15 min are you kidding me? thats about 2/3 the way down

#11 - cops have never been able to unite for any kind of "work slowdown"... which should be easy, as it would require... want to hazard a guess? yep... LESS work... do you really think anything is going to motivate our fellows to do MORE work?

lord, i had enough trouble convincing guys to at least come close to their "productivity goals" ;)

The best part of this bike lane is it gives the Mister Softee truck a place to park!

I find nothing wrong with these vehicles parked here. What drives me crazy is when I exit the battery Tunnel at Trinity Place and find one of the two exit lanes blocked by an SUV claiming to be someone or something. The first sign of fraud is the red light on the dash board. Who puts a red light on the dash of a parked unmarked "police" vehicle?

The priorities on this site are mixed up.

I thought the Mt Softee trucks used hydrants, driveways and crosswalks exclusively ;)

Rudy sent crime down? I thought the crack plague came and went, a source of many a driveby. That's a myth about Rudy.

It's funny to hear him begging for privacy for Miss Judi when he opened Dorrismond's sealed record, stating he was dead and it could be unsealed, unheard of in legal circles.

The reason he was dead was he had the nerve to shove an undercover cop who asked him to commit a felony, and got shot for refusing..... Ah yes, the days of Rudy.

Another thing about Rudy: His cops shot the hijacker of a taxi, hitting the taxi driver also, about 10 years back. We were on the bridge between the S.Bronx and Washington Hts, looking down at the entrance ramp where the taxi had crashed around 3 AM.

To our left was the S. BX, to the right W. Hts. We walked around the S Bx for a few and it was scary. No lights, no windows, no people, just darkness. Near the bridge was one bare bulb street light overlooking an overturned car on top of a hydrant shooting straight up thru the car.

I routinely went to E. NY and other bad places at 3AM and don't scare easily, but this was truly frightening. We were back on the bridge when out of the darkness limps a guy dragging a tire iron.

We called him over and asked who was in the S Bx side, quoting Rudy's "broken windows" theory. "Must be tons of crime there, I don't see any windows at all."

"Nobody's there, there's no crime, all the crime is in Wash Hts and there aren't any broken windows, every building is occupied to the max. That's where all the shootouts are." And the start of the taxi hijacking we were there for.

So much for Rudy's theory, thought up by a fat ass sitting on a leather chair up in Harvard. I looked around and didn't see that fat ass on the bridge that night...

What did Rudy do on 9/11 except hold press conferences and tell the media what the current body count was. He rushed to the site of the toppled towers and threw dust on his face and claimed that he was there to calm the people of NYC. And for this he claims he is a hero. What a sham by this crooked politician who married his cousin and cheated on his wife with one of his gay staffers(informatioin the will surface in due time). Koch managed to keep his homosexuality under raps but then again he never ran for president. Rudy and all his dirt will be exposed and I can't wait.

He wasn't cheating with the gay staffer, he was mooching.....