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Crossing Kent Avenue at Grand Street is like a game of Frogger. Photo: Noah Martz

PEACHES AND CREAM: Inside the City’s Berry Street ‘Bike Boulevard’ Plan

By Noah Martz | Jul 11, 2022 | No Comments

Last month, the city unveiled a plan to convert the existing Berry Street “open street” into a true “bike boulevard,'' but what does that mean? Let Streetsblog guide you…

Why don't we have these kinds of streets anymore? Photo: Katrina Thomas/NYC Parks Photo Archive

Tuesday’s Headlines: Kids Should Be Able to Play in the Street Edition

By Streetsblog | Jun 28, 2022 | No Comments

Remember when you could play volleyball in the street? The Parks Department does. Plus other news.

Teachers parked illegally on Fourth Street in Park Slope. The hand-made sign refers to a former "Play Street" sign that the city removed. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

UH, THANKS: City Will Turn a Dead-End Block into a Plaza … But Only When Placarded Teachers Go on Recess

By Julianne Cuba | Jun 14, 2022 | No Comments

School's out for summer — but will a play street remain when teachers come back?

Looking west on the new car-free Brooklyn Bridge. In the background are new wooden platforms between the stone piers, where visitors can go up and down between the old roadways and the elevated walkway. The decks provide flexible space for seating, food carts, exhibits, and the like. Rendering: Zeke Mermell

OPINION: We Can Have Nice Things … Once We Get Rid of King Car

By John Massengale | Jun 8, 2022 | No Comments

Europe has great public places. A walk or bike ride from Borough Hall to City Hall across an auto-free Brooklyn Bridge would equal any of them.

People love the Willoughby Avenue open street, but Council Member Crystal Hudson is having second thoughts.

WILLOUGHOBAD? Progressive Council Member Has Problems with Popular Open Street

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 18, 2022 | No Comments

Council Member Crystal Hudson now wants DOT to go back to the drawing board on a popular open street.

A plaza in Queens. Photo: Design Trust for Public Space

Design Trust Releases Public Space Management ‘Toolkit’

By Eve Kessler | Apr 29, 2022 | No Comments

Group seeks to smooth way for small-fry community and business organizations in 'placemaking' efforts.

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