Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

Forest City Ratner plans to demolish two entire city blocks – including historic buildings that should be reused like the Ward Bakery – to create enormous “temporary” surface parking lots for over 1400 cars that would blight Brooklyn for decades. These parking lots will also encourage more people to drive, leading to worse traffic, worse […]

Brooklyn Community Board 6’s transportation committee will hear presentations and community input on the following items:  Presentation and discussion of a proposal by the Department of Transportation for improvements designed to enhance pedestrian mobility, access and comfort at the Grand Army Plaza. Presentation by the Department of Transportation of a plan to install two-way Class […]

The physical City of New York is the product of numerous planners, developers, and municipal officials as well as private citizens. This tour explores how the city was planned and grew, and is served by the infrastructure that we use every day. Explore the alternative forms of public transportation that are available in the region. This tour […]

Debbie McMullen, the head of the City of London’s so-called "London Plan," will present some of her office’s newest work, with a specific look at the comparison between NY and London. It has been suggested that London has much to teach New York, and that it would be in our city’s best interest to learn […]

A talk by Stuart R. Gaffin, Ph.D., Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University & NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Spurred by recent observational evidence that climate change may be occurring more quickly than anticipated — the current spate of record high temperature years, rapid ice melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet, for example […]

A screening of Isabel Hill’s documentary about Atlantic Yards. This is presented by the Park Slope Civic Council, the Park Slope United Methodist Church Social Action Committee and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council.