Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Gehl on Wheels

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 5, 2007 | 9 Comments

The Jan Gehl product roll-out continues apace. Last week, WNYC. This week, New York Magazine. Word has it Gehl’s team will be presenting Department of Transportation brass with some pretty big ideas for street space re-allocation. In the meantime, enjoy another interview with everyone’s favorite Danish urban designer: Can New York really be tamed? I […]

Invisible Man

By Alex Marshall | Nov 5, 2007 | 17 Comments

The brain experts tell us vision is an act of discrimination. In other words, we don’t see everything; see what we look for, what we expect to see. Which probably explains how the guy on Avenue B over near 10th Street opened his door directly in front of me, just after sticking his head out […]

“A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 2 Comments

As we lead up to next Tuesday’s big Upper West Side Streets Renaissance workshop with Jan Gehl (have you submitted your RSVP yet?) here is another StreetFilm delving in to the kinds of issues we hope to be talking about. In this segment, Upper West Siders Mark Gorton and Lisa Sladkus briefly examine just how […]

Celebrating Livable Streets on the Day of the Dead

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 8 Comments

It occurs to Sean Roche of Newton Streets & Sidewalks that Halloween is, in a funny way, "America’s walking holiday," with kids, parents and just about everyone heading out for an early evening stroll, chance run-ins with friends and neighbors, and no need to pull the car out of its parking spot. Happy Halloween, indeed. […]

RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

Help shape the neighborhood streets of the Upper West Side. Work with your neighbors to create beautiful, green streets with safer bike lanes, great walking spaces, less traffic and cleaner air. The Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign is holding a series of events aimed at empowering residents to re-imagine neighborhood streets and make their […]

Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue Renaissance

By Jason Varone | Oct 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

In an attempt to turn Myrtle Avenue into a thriving "Main Street" for Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership is now working with Project for Public Spaces "to survey, analyze, and produce conceptual recommendations for four underutilized public and quasi-public spaces on the avenue." You can see the 4 locations […]

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