Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 31, 2006 | 12 Comments

Some reading ahead of tomorrow’s big Transit-Oriented Development forum at NYU… Public attention is focused on Atlantic Yards and condo towers under construction or planned from DUMBO to Long Island City, but the Brooklyn real estate boom is having subtler but equally profound effects on neighborhoods just outside the radar, and these changes are tremendously beneficial from a regional planning perspective. […]

The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 17, 2006 | 9 Comments

Via the Manhattan Institute’s new blog, Streetsblog learns of a pdf-formatted report entitled A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Famillies, which looks at the housing and transportation expenses paid by lower income families in a number of cities. The report, published by the Center for Housing Policy, a K Street […]

Ride a Bike & Get the World’s Best Cookie Half-Price

By Alec | Oct 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

While we’re seeking great streets, we’ve found an exemplary store in Manhattan’s Build a Green Bakery. This tiny East Village shop sells organic pastries, coffee and tea in an all-sustainable setting. The owner, City Bakery’s Maury Rubin, made the space an environmentalists’ showroom. He chose walls of wheat and sunflower husks and colored them with […]

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | No Comments

The Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Inititiave is one of the most inspiring and visionary development projects going in New York City right now. The project is very grassroots. Over ten years ago, three Brooklyn residents, Brian McCormick, Milton Puryear and Meg Fellerath got it in their heads that Brooklyn’s waterfront should have a bike path and linear […]

Planetizen Interview With Amanda Burden

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2006 | 5 Comments

Planetizen publishes a Q&A with New York City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden. She says some great things and below are excerpts. After reading this interview, the question I come away with is, simply: Where in the world has Amanda Burden been during the discussion of the "Atlantic Yards" development in Brooklyn? How could it be that […]

Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday

By Glenn McAnanama | Oct 10, 2006 | 4 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is holding a day-long forum on Manhattan’s transportation future. Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, will be the keynote speaker. This should be a great event. Peñalosa is the inspiring and visionary politician who transformed his city of 7 million into a model for sustainable urban transportation. In recent months Peñalosa […]

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