Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Project for Public Spaces

Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 15, 2007 | 7 Comments

Department of Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan continues to assemble an impressive management team. Following in the footsteps of Bruce Schaller and Jon Orcutt, Project for Public Spaces vice president and transportation program director Andy Wiley-Schwartz is heading over to 40 Worth Street where he will be reporting to Deputy Commissioner Schaller at DOT’s new Office […]

CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell’s Kitchen

By Jason Varone | Jun 6, 2007 | 4 Comments

In order to foster ideas on how to reclaim 9th Avenue from Lincoln Tunnel traffic, the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition (CHEKPEDS) sponsored a six month community input process designed by Project for Public Spaces. The process began with a design workshop in January, and has evolved into an impressive final report (PDF). Some highlights […]

A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | No Comments

All across the city neighborhood groups are coming together to re-envision and plan their own communities. In the last few months we’ve seen valuable community-planning processes taking place in Hell’s Kitchen, the Meatpacking District and, to a certain extent, along Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. People aren’t waiting around for real estate developers or city […]

DOT Explains New Traffic Solution. But What’s the Problem?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 1, 2007 | 19 Comments

The Department of Transportation’s press office sends along this response to the story we broke yesterday about the agency’s plan to revamp Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues running through Park Slope, Brooklyn: DOT has proposed changing 6th and 7th Avenues to one-way streets which we believe will have many benefits including simplifying the turning movements […]