Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYCEDC

Fixing the Ditch: Planning a Less Awful BQE Trench

By Noah Kazis | | 22 Comments
The BQE trench divides a neighborhood in two, spewing noise and air pollution. Photo: NYCEDC [PDF] Between 1950 and 1964, Robert Moses gouged a path across two boroughs to build the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, the BQE slices through the urban fabric in the form of a below-grade trench, […]

Parking Overkill in Flushing: NYCEDC Made It Happen

By Noah Kazis | | 34 Comments
It’s not every day that a New York City real estate executive name-checks Donald Shoup, but one developer admiringly referred to the dean of progressive parking policy while explaining his project to Streetsblog. If not for the New York City Economic Development Corporation and mis-directed political pressures, says TDC Development President Michael Meyer, the huge mixed-use […]

Biz Students See Ripe Market for Bike-Share in NYC

By Noah Kazis | | 7 Comments
A Nextbike kiosk in Tubingen, Germany. Image: Eldersign via Flickr. With bike-share systems launching in three major American cities this year, the question naturally arises: Does New York have an appetite for bike-sharing? Patricia Bayley and Martin Mazza say yes. Students at Barcelona’s IESE, one of Europe’s top business schools, Bayley and Mazza intend to […]

EDC Chief Seth Pinsky: Minimizing Parking “The Worst Thing We Could Do”

By Noah Kazis | | 27 Comments
Seth Pinsky, NYCEDC president. Image: NYCEDC. The NYC Economic Development Corporation’s predilection for suburban-style, parking-filled projects earned it last year’s Streetsie for worst city agency. Well, now we’ve got some more insight into what makes EDC tick. After an event at the New School last night, NYCEDC president Seth Pinsky told Streetsblog why his organization’s […]
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