Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of Parks & Recreation

Hundreds rallied in 2019 for the city to make good on its promise to close all of 78th Street in Jackson Heights to car traffic. A car dealership on the block has gotten around that pledge. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Council Member Dromm to DOT Commish: Build Full Travers Park or Betray Vision Zero

By Julianne Cuba and David Meyer | May 11, 2019 | 9 Comments

Jackson Heights Council Member Daniel Dromm unleashed hell on Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg on Friday because of the de Blasio administration’s apparent capitulation to a politically connected car-dealership.

A FedEx truck drives on the sidewalk right next to the park on St. Mark's Avenue.

Scott Stringer Channels Robert F. Kennedy in Vision for Mid-Block Playgrounds

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 29, 2019 | 4 Comments

A back-to-the-future plan to turn through streets into cul-de-sacs with playgrounds in the middle (and FedEx on the sidewalk).

An overflow crowd came out on Monday night to plan a strategy for getting the city to make good on its promise to turn 78th Street in Jackson Heights into a park. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

City Officials Were a No-Show At Monday Night’s Massive Jackson Heights Town Hall

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 16, 2019 | 9 Comments

The plan was to remove cars from a single block. Then a car dealership demanded some of the public space. Now city officials aren't talking.

SEE IT! Hundreds Rally to Keep Cars Out of Travers Park in Jackson Heights

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 31, 2019 | 3 Comments

It's a dangerous, combustible situation. Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. covered Saturday's rally and filed this film report.

The service entrance leads to a supposedly car-free 78th Street with an in-the-works pedestrian plaza and park. Photo by Clarence Eckerson.

The City Might Give Up Its Plan to Ban Cars On One Jackson Heights Street

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 21, 2019 | 20 Comments

The city may surrender a years-in-the making plan to transform a Jackson Heights street into a pedestrian friendly car-free plaza because of a well-connected, wait for it, car dealership!

It's two more years of this cracked pavement on your bike ride. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Ocean Parkway Bike Path to Get Long Overdue Fix

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 12, 2019 | 12 Comments

The city's first bike lane will no longer be the city's worst bike lane.

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