Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

DOT’s Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

Last week, DOT quietly revealed that it was planning to narrow Fourth Avenue and transform Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Sixth and Seventh Avenues in to one-way streets. Agency officials say that the the changes are being proposed for no reason other than "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street." Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues […]

PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

A tipster tells us of a particularly vigorous screaming match in City Hall last week between Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and a career civil servant who must remain nameless. "You wouldn’t know it from outside appearances," the tipster says, "but the 2030 Project is really tearing things up inside City Hall right now. It’s a […]

Correction…

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | No Comments

On Thursday, March 8, in a story titled The New York City Parking Boom, we incorrectly reported that New York City’s Economic Development Corporation is funding part of the $500 million Flushing Commons development project in Queens. The situation is actually a bit more nuanced. The EDC is facilitating the sale of city property to […]

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

The New York City Parking Boom

By Josh Brustein | Mar 8, 2007 | 14 Comments

The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]

Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 8, 2007 | 22 Comments

Below is a letter from the Park Slope Civic Council to Mayor Bloomberg and local elected representatives regarding the City’s plan to transform Sixth and Seventh Avenue’s into one-way streets. It’s lengthy but it’s worth a read (and full disclosure: I’m a trustee of the Civic Council): Park Slope Civic Council March 7, 2007 Dear […]

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