Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Parks

Go to Car-Free Governors Island

By Jason Varone | Jun 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

Go to Governor’s Island! A StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr. and Trorb Productions Running Time: 4 minutes 18 seconds Governors Island is a car-free, New York City paradise and now it’s open to the public on weekends from June thru Sept 2nd. Find all the details on the Governors Island Alliance website. To get there, […]

Count Cars Breaking the Law in Prospect Park!

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 25, 2007 | 37 Comments

Almost every time Doug Gordon visits Prospect Park he sees vehicles entering illegally after it is closed to cars at 7 pm. It made him mad, so he got out his video camera. StreetFilms obtained the footage he took on June 20th near the 3rd Street/Prospect Park West entrance and truncated it into this enlightening […]

Tour de Brooklyn: City is Considering Car-Free Central Park Trial

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 4, 2007 | 5 Comments

New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan enjoys a lighter moment with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz as Noah Budnick of Transportation Alternatives welcomes cyclists to the 2007 Tour de Brooklyn. The third annual Tour de Brooklyn bike ride rolled through the borough Sunday with sunny skies, temperatures in the low 70s and a light breeze along a […]

London’s Trafalgar Square Goes Green… Literally.

By Jason Varone | May 24, 2007 | 5 Comments

A once traffic-heavy part of Trafalgar Square, now open only to pedestrians, just received a green, grassy face lift from London’s city government. Could New York City’s Times Square be next? (If not, we’d settle for three months-worth of car-free Central Park this summer.) The BBC reports: More than 2,000 sq m of turf has […]

To Some it’s a Park, to Others, a Parking Lot

By Geoff Zink | May 22, 2007 | 27 Comments

A view of the area now occupied by the Wollman Rink circa 1930. Last night the Prospect Park Alliance hosted a "community input session" for the proposed Lakeside Center, a facility that is to replace the 45-year-old Wollman rink and "provide Park visitors with a state-of-the-art, year-round facility featuring two new outdoor ice skating rinks, […]

Gridlock Sam on Car-Free Central Park

By Aaron Naparstek | May 16, 2007 | No Comments

Yesterday we put forth the argument that fastest, cheapest, easiest and most symbolically rich way for Mayor Bloomberg to initiate his new green agenda for New York City would be to make Central Park car-free during the summer of 2007. Last fall, in a wide-ranging interview with Open Planning Project executive director Mark Gorton, New […]

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