Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DDC

In Unanimous Vote, CB 2 Embraces People-Friendly Astor Place

By Noah Kazis | Jan 21, 2011 | 11 Comments

Last night, Manhattan Community Board 2 resoundingly endorsed the city’s plans to transform Astor Place and Cooper Square from asphalt expanses into pedestrian-friendly public spaces. After including some language in its resolution to appease the concerns of certain residents, the roughly 40 community board members in attendance voted unanimously for the plan to transform street […]

City Shows Off Plan to Reclaim Astor Place for Pedestrians [Updated]

By Noah Kazis | Jan 7, 2011 | 13 Comments

Plans to transform another asphalt tangle into a great public space are moving forward at Astor Place, and Curbed has the details. With significant street space being reclaimed for pedestrians, the plan should serve as a new gathering place in the East Village and make the neighborhood safer for walking. Here are a few of […]

What Should Happen at Myrtle Avenue’s New Plaza? The Public Weighs In

By Noah Kazis | Feb 8, 2010 | 5 Comments

A two-block pedestrian plaza is coming to Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill, replacing an underused service road between Grand Avenue and Emerson Place. Last Friday, the local business improvement district unveiled eight potential ideas for the site (check out the BID’s Flickr stream to see them all) and asked viewers for their feedback. Myrtle Avenue […]

NYC Agencies Team Up on Guidelines for an Active City

By Mike Lydon | Jan 28, 2010 | 6 Comments

City officials, architects, planners, and public health advocates crammed into the Center for Architecture last night for the unveiling of New York City’s Active Design Guidelines. Heralded as a first-of-its-kind collaboration between four city departments — Health, Transportation, Design and Construction, and City Planning — the effort underscores that New Yorkers, as much as we […]

Eyes on the Street: Sands Street Bike Path Almost Rideable

By Ben Fried | Jul 15, 2009 | 8 Comments

Soon, you won’t have to ride in car traffic on the Sands Street approach to the Manhattan Bridge. The long-awaited Sands Street bike path, a protected approach to the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge which took a few years longer than expected to go through New York City’s construction bureaucracy, looks tantalizingly close to […]

Renovation of Crumbling, Dangerous 215th Step-Street Delayed [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2009 | 9 Comments

Residents of Inwood were excited by last year’s news that the 215th Step-Street — a block-long staircase linking Broadway to residential blocks in the northern reaches of the neighborhood — would soon be receiving a long-awaited rehab. But officials announced last week that the project will again be delayed. The 215th Step-Street: still broken. Photo: […]

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