Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about City Rise

Sign of the times: A temporary 'street for people' on the Upper West Side. Photo: Eve Kessler

New Civic Group — CityRise — Will Push Mayor To Counter ‘Carmageddon’

By Eve Kessler | Sep 23, 2020 | No Comments

CityRise will reach into tactical urbanist playbook in bid to make city streets livable post-COVID.

When cars are banished, culture can flourish, as this Time Lapse Dance performance on the Upper West Side shows. File photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

SEE IT: Yet Another Neighborhood Shows Mayor de Blasio How Great Our City Could Be Without Cars

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 18, 2020 | No Comments

Upper West Siders turned one of Mayor de Blasio's under-used and poorly conceived open streets into a community center that shows a way forward for a car-light city.