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Jackson Heights Neighbors Band Together to Win Car-Free Street Expansion

By Noah Kazis | May 24, 2010 | 11 Comments

Jackson Heights residents and Council Member Daniel Dromm (bottom left) marched to Queens Community Board 3 to call for expanding the car-free 78th Street Play Street. Photo via Jackson Heights Green Alliance Nearly 200 Jackson Heights residents marched on their community board last Thursday night to support the expansion of car-free public space in their […]

It’s Car Free Streets Season in NYC

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

Photo: NYCDOT Looks like we’re headed for a sunny weekend as NYC’s slate of summer car-free street events gets going. NYCDOT hasn’t updated their "Weekend Walks" site yet to show when and where all the neighborhood-scale street parties will be happening. But one of the first of 2010 is coming to Amsterdam Avenue from 106th […]

Tonight: DOT to Reveal Plans for a Safer Union Square

By Brad Aaron | Apr 26, 2010 | 14 Comments

Image via NY1 Safer street conditions and more space for pedestrians and cyclists could soon be coming to Union Square under a plan to be unveiled by DOT today. We haven’t gotten our hands on the drawings yet, but media reports say that by Labor Day, East 17th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, […]

DOT Sets Construction Timeline for Permanent Ped-Friendly Times Square

By Brad Aaron | Mar 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

Think you can top this? Photo: berk2804/Flickr DOT yesterday announced a competition for temporary designs to "refresh" Times Square while the agency develops plans for permanent pedestrian plazas. According to a media release, the design phase for the permanent plazas will run for about the next 18 months, with construction set to begin in 2012. […]

DOT Plans to Bring NYC’s First Separated Busway to 34th Street

By Noah Kazis | Mar 2, 2010 | 101 Comments

What the 34th Street transitway might look like between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Image: NYCDOT When DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan hinted last Tuesday that bolder ideas were on the way for bus rapid transit in New York City, she apparently meant "next week." The DOT website now displays an updated plan for the next phase […]

Instead of Scaling Down Parades, What If We Scaled Back on Police?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 23, 2010 | 10 Comments

Cops march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo: Nat Bane/Flickr When NYPD announced Monday that, effective April 1, city parades must be shortened in distance by 25 percent and may no longer exceed five hours — period — there was an understandable sense of disappointment. But since the move was framed as an unavoidable […]

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