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Health Commish: We Can Make NYC More Walkable and Bikeable

By Noah Kazis | Feb 16, 2010 | No Comments

Health Commissioner Thomas Farley: ready to saddle up and ride to work. Image: NY Daily News. With half a year in New York and (most of) a nasty flu season under his belt, new Health Commissioner Tom Farley recently sat down with Transportation Alternatives to discuss the importance of walking and biking for NYC’s health. […]

Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan Commit to a World-Class, 21st Century Broadway

By Ben Fried | Feb 11, 2010 | 30 Comments

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and leaders from the Midtown business community announced this morning that the new public spaces along Broadway will become permanent features of the city’s landscape now that an eight-month trial period has ended. The city will seek to build on the trial project’s success by […]

Bloomberg: The Transformation of Broadway Is Here to Stay

By Ben Fried | Feb 11, 2010 | 25 Comments

There’s no going back. Photo: nanpalmero/Flickr Eight months after New York City changed traffic patterns in midtown Manhattan, transforming Broadway and reclaiming acres of urban space for pedestrian plazas at Times Square and Herald Square, Mayor Bloomberg announced this morning that the trial has proven successful and the changes will be permanent. Streetsblog will post […]

Times Square Then and Now: A Streetfilms Retrospective

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 5, 2010 | 10 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg is expected to announce his verdict on Times Square’s new pedestrian spaces very soon. Will the changes be permanent? This morning Bloomberg told radio host John Gambling that we’ll find out sometime next week. In the meantime, it seems like the media has decided to fixate on rumors that Midtown traffic speeds may […]

Great Public Spaces for Midtown

By Ben Fried | Feb 3, 2010 | 9 Comments

The new Times Square versus the old Times Square — worth a few seconds of motorist inconvenience on a few streets. Photos: berk2804 and midweekpost via Flickr Mayor Bloomberg has seen some of the data from the city’s trial of car-free, pedestrian-priority spaces in Midtown, and it looks like the changes in traffic speeds are […]

The Case for a Car-Free Halloween

By Ben Fried | Nov 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

So, I hope you’ll forgive me for posting these Halloween pictures halfway through November. I took them on Fifth Avenue at the south end of Park Slope, and I’ve been meaning to share them since election week. Usually on Halloween I’m cooped up in an office until dark, but since it fell on a Saturday […]

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