10th Ave Bike Route in Upper Manhattan

April 2012 - new signs and white paint clearly delineate the bike route.

Bike Path alongside FDR near E 14th St

New York City Department of Transportation engineers show off their skill at laying out bike lane markings and directional arrows.
Photo taken July 4, 2004. View is towards the south.

If you want the original full-scale photo, you can download it here.

Here's another NYC DoT arrow of note - at the 181st St pedestrian bridge over the Henry Hudson Parkway. The sign for "George Washington Bridge" should point towards the camera, up Riverside Drive, so that people leaving the Hudson River Greenway can find the Bridge path. Instead, it points into a wall, so that people who are going to the Greenway from the GW Bridge can see how clumsy NYC DoT is with their signs.

To their defense, NYC DoT didn't do this intentionally, but I first notified them back in the summer of 2002 about this problem, and followed up every 6-10 months. What does it take to get a sign fixed around here?

Update

In April 2005, almost three years later, the errant sign was removed. The scaffolding remained.

In May, 2005, parts of the retaining wall in the background behind the scaffolding collapsed, showering rock and dirt onto Riverside Drive and the adjacent Henry Hudson Parkway. Subsequent press reports suggested that the scaffolding in the photo above was installed by one of the local co-op buildings to protect people from rocks falling out of the wall.