Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho

You’ve got to hand it to Clarence Eckerson. The producer of Streetfilms managed to turn around a video of this morning’s press conference announcing the new Bruce Schaller study of Soho streets (PDF) in less than four hours and it’s a really nice piece of work. My only gripe is that he edited out the taxi cab blasting its horn in the middle of Schaller’s talk. Anyway, here is video of this morning’s press conference including lots of great, weekend footage of Soho streets:

Curbing Cars in Soho
A Streetfilm by Clarence Eckerson
Running time: 3 minutes 25 seconds

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