Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

Draft Plan for Waterfront Promises Greenways, Silent on Ferries

By Noah Kazis | Sep 17, 2010 | 6 Comments

With New York City in the midst of a wholesale rethinking of its more than 500 miles of waterfront, the Department of City Planning recently released a draft of its new comprehensive waterfront plan, Vision 2020. That plan lays out both broad citywide objectives, such as a commitment to building borough-wide greenways across the city, […]

Public Tells Planning Commission They Want a Walkable Riverside Center

By Noah Kazis | Sep 16, 2010 | 20 Comments

A hearing on the Riverside Center mega-development yesterday revealed a popular hunger for a more walkable West Side and perhaps some interest from the City Planning Commission in the same. Extell Development is looking to build a housing and retail complex, including 1,800 parking spaces, on this waterfront site equivalent in size to two Manhattan blocks. […]

Envisioning a New York Where Cycling Isn’t Just for Cyclists

By Noah Kazis | Aug 13, 2010 | 33 Comments

At a panel sponsored by the American Institute of Architects last night, two of the city’s top transportation planners joined one of its hardest-working bike advocates to discuss how to make cycling a mainstream mode in New York. The director of the Department of City Planning’s Transportation Division, Jack Schmidt, DOT Senior Policy Advisor Jon […]

DCP Report Adds Another Wrinkle to Measurements of NYC Cycling

By Noah Kazis | Aug 11, 2010 | 10 Comments

The number of cyclists on the Second Avenue bike lane, at 7th Street, has been on the rise. Image: DCP More New Yorkers are riding bikes than ever, but a new report from the Department of City Planning further complicates the effort to precisely determine how much cycling has taken off. The report, which looks […]

Big Box Mall’s Giant Parking Garage a Predictable, Preventable Waste

By Noah Kazis | Jul 8, 2010 | 43 Comments

Despite copious subsidized parking at East River Plaza, most customers still walk or take transit to get there. Who could have seen that coming? Image: Curbed In a surprise to few, the wannabe-suburban East River Plaza big box mall can’t fill its 1,428 space parking lot. As the Wall Street Journal reported this week, Manhattan […]

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