Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets

¡Viva CicLAvia!

By Damien Newton | Feb 3, 2012 | No Comments

Watch here without subtitles. After sponsoring Streetfilms of the first two CicLAvias, the open streets festival in Los Angeles based on Bogota’s Ciclovia, Streetsblog LA faced a dilemma: How can we continue to cover this event that draws over a hundred thousand Angelenos to the streets? The answer: Make a Streetfilm that was accessible to […]

Doctors’ Note Says Complete Streets Are Vital to New York’s Health

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2011 | 4 Comments

Transportation Alternatives and the New York Chapter of the American Association of Family Physicians today released a letter to Mayor Bloomberg, signed by 140 medical professionals from a broad spectrum of specialties, praising the city’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure as essential to the health of New Yorkers. It’s a solid counterweight to the hysteria surrounding […]

Times Square: Livable Streets Mecca, Retail Sensation

By Brad Aaron | Sep 2, 2011 | 7 Comments

Two years after Mayor Bloomberg and NYC DOT remade Times Square, the city’s premiere public space is one of the world’s leading shopping destinations. Crain’s reports that annual rankings from international real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield place Times Square among the ten most desirable retail locations on the planet, topped in New York only […]

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Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets

¡Viva CicLAvia!

Doctors’ Note Says Complete Streets Are Vital to New York’s Health

Times Square: Livable Streets Mecca, Retail Sensation

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