Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets

Jackson Heights Embraces 78th Street Play Street and Makes It Permanent

By Noah Kazis | Jul 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

“It’s just a street. It’s asphalt. It doesn’t look like anything,” said Jackson Heights resident Donovan Finn of the block of 78th Street between Northern Avenue and 34th Avenue. “But it feels like something.” Finn’s neighbors, it seems, agree. Two years ago, Jackson Heights residents and City Council Member Daniel Dromm won a hard-fought battle […]

Sadik-Khan Announces Summer Streets 2012

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2012 | 7 Comments

Summer Streets will return this August. NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced dates for the fifth iteration of the city’s premier car-free event. Seven miles of Manhattan streets, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, will be open to pedestrians from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on August 4, 11 and 18. “For three […]

Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets, May Day Edition

By Noah Kazis | May 2, 2012 | 4 Comments

New Yorkers got an unusual taste of what car-free streets feel like yesterday, thanks to the combination of Occupy Wall Street’s May Day march and the New York Police Department. To mark the labor movement holiday, thousands of people took to the streets of Lower Manhattan to protest economic inequality. According to the New York […]

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San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 25, 2012 | No Comments

Tom Radulovich, the executive director of the local non-profit Livable City, describes the recent livable streets achievements in San Francisco as “tactical urbanism” — using low-cost materials like paint and bollards to reclaim street space. That willingness to experiment was a big reason that the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave its 2012 Sustainable Transport Award to […]

How Mexico City Fought and Cajoled to Reclaim Streets for Pedestrians

By Noah Kazis | Mar 19, 2012 | 11 Comments

This is the first in a series of reports about sustainable transportation policies in Mexico City. Last week, Streetsblog participated in a tour of the city led by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Upcoming installments will cover the city’s transit expansions, particularly its new bus rapid transit […]

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Do You Have Car-Free Streets? A New Resource for North American Ciclovias

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Mar 1, 2012 | No Comments

Pop quiz: Where was the first ciclovia? I bet you said Bogotá. But, surprisingly, you’d be wrong. Sure, the Colombian city is widely credited with popularizing the concept of ciclovias, which temporarily close streets to cars to liberate the roads for people. For several hours every Sunday, more than a million citizens in Bogotá take […]

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