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Why Is Summer Streets So Rare?

By Ben Fried | Aug 1, 2014 | 39 Comments

The forecast for Saturday is bleak — 100 percent chance of rain, lasting just about all day. Tomorrow also happens to be the first Summer Streets event of 2014 (as well as the first during the de Blasio mayoralty). Good thing the main attraction is in a tunnel. But since there are only two other […]

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Buenos Aires: Building a People-Friendly City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 30, 2014 | No Comments

Buenos Aires is fast becoming one of the most admired cities in the world when it comes to reinventing streets and transportation. Just over a year ago, the city launched MetroBus BRT (constructed in less than seven months) on 9 de Julio Avenue, which may be the world’s widest street. The transformation of four general […]

Summer Streets and (Mostly) Car-Free Central Park: Same As Last Year

By Stephen Miller | Jun 19, 2014 | 22 Comments

Six years ago, when Summer Streets was introduced, the New York Times asked: Will it work? This year, the question is: Why isn’t the city doing more of it? The ciclovia, which attracted 300,000 people over three Saturdays last August, will mark its seventh year by returning to the East Side on August 2, 9, […]

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Seattle Opens Up Neighborhood Streets for Kids to Play

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 5, 2014 | No Comments

At St. Terese Academy in Seattle last week, students held relay races on 35th Avenue. It was field day at the Madrona neighborhood school, and thanks to a new initiative from the city of Seattle, the kids had some extra space to stretch their legs. The elementary school was the first to take part in Seattle’s new […]

What’s the Status of Car-Free Central Park and Prospect Park in 2014?

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2014 | 30 Comments

Last year, the city announced that much of Central Park’s loop drives would go car-free all summer long. With temperatures warming, the park is again filling with people walking, jogging, and biking — all sharing space with car commuters looking for a rush-hour shortcut. Will it happen again — or expand — this year? Negotiations are […]

Watch NYC Reclaim Its Streets With the Swipe of a Finger

By Brad Aaron | Jan 31, 2014 | 1 Comment

If you didn’t spend at least some of your Friday ogling this post on the Architect’s Newspaper Blog, you’ve been missing out. A/N Blog overlaid before and after shots of 25 Bloomberg-era NYC street transformations, allowing readers to “slide” between views. “With little more than paint, planters, and a few well-placed boulders, Bloomberg and former […]

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