Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DDC

The project will fill in a missing link in the Bronx River Greenway between Starlight Park and Bronx River Park, while creating safer crossings at three complex intersections.

Ritchie Torres Secures $12.3 Million for Bronx River Greenway Link

By David Meyer | Jan 12, 2017 | 3 Comments

The project will fill in a missing link in the Bronx River Greenway between Starlight Park and Bronx River Park, while creating safer crossings at three complex intersections.

The reconstruction of Astor Place wrapped up eight years after the proposal was first revealed.

These DDC Projects Took Forever to Build But They're Finally Done

By David Meyer | Jan 10, 2017 | 3 Comments

Last January, we spotlighted 11 street redesign projects where the city's Department of Design and Construction had fallen years behind schedule. One year later, most of those projects are still not finished, but before we get to those, here are the long-delayed DDC projects that wrapped up in 2016.

Broadway and 43rd. After photo: David Meyer

The Times Square Plazas Are No Longer a Construction Zone

By David Meyer | Jan 3, 2017 | 10 Comments

Before 2009, Times Square was a hellish place to walk. Pedestrians outnumbered vehicles nine to one but were confined to just 10 percent of the street space. The creation of car-free plazas on Broadway changed the equation, and now those plazas are a permanent fixture of the street.

Eyes on the Street: The New East Houston Street

By David Meyer | Oct 3, 2016 | 12 Comments

The long-delayed reconstruction of East Houston Street between the Bowery and the FDR Drive is starting to round into form. Though the Department of Design and Construction won’t wrap up the project until next year at the earliest, new medians and pedestrian areas between Avenue A and Chrystie Street are finally complete, and the transition to the First Avenue bike lane is […]

Wider Sidewalks Coming to Flushing’s Crowded Main Street

By David Meyer | Jul 19, 2016 | 9 Comments

Main Street in Flushing gets more foot traffic than anywhere else in New York after Times Square, but its sidewalks are too narrow to handle all those people. So later this month, the city will begin expanding the sidewalks on four blocks of Main Street, Council Member Peter Koo, DOT, and the Department of Design and […]

Eyes on the Street: Pedestrians Get Room to Breathe at Astor Place

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 17 Comments

The redesign of Astor Place and Cooper Square, first unveiled in 2008, is nearly complete. The new layout greatly expands pedestrian space in an area with lots of foot traffic. While some construction work is still in progress around the subway entrance between Lafayette Street and Fourth Avenue, the rest of the sidewalk expansions are all but finished — missing only final landscaping […]

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