Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
Mark Gorton, founder and executive director of the Open Planning Project, the publisher of Streetsblog, has agreed to match up to $250,000 in donations to a Transportation Alternatives campaign promoting Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030. Today’s Crain’s Insider reports: It is the largest known individual effort to help support the plan. The organization began its fund-raising […]

In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza

By Jason Varone | | 2 Comments
  The Department of Transportation has unveiled plans to turn the gritty Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO into a public plaza. The plaza will be similar to the one DOT creaed on Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn last year. The Triangle currently serves as a parking lot. Some interesting notes about the project: The plaza […]

What Does a “Bike Friendly” City Look Like?

By Jason Varone | | 5 Comments
Alan Durning has a lengthy essay discussing the infrastructure and culture that makes a city "bike friendly" in the environmental news blog, Gristmill: Good bicycling infrastructure is something few on this continent have seen. It doesn’t mean a "bike route" sign and a white stripe along the arterial. It doesn’t mean a meandering trail shared […]

T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen

By Jason Varone | | 2 Comments
T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen A StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr. Running Time: 3 minutes 3 seconds On the closing day of New York City’s historic C40 Climate Summit, Lord Mayor Clover Moore of Sydney, Australia and Copenhagen’s Mayor of the Technical & Environmental Administration Klaus Bondam took a lunch break […]

Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps

By Aaron Naparstek | | 9 Comments
The Brooklynian message boards are often the scene of fierce fighting over Brownstone Brooklyn’s crowded sidewalk space. While Park Slope’s legion of double-wide stroller-pushing moms and sidewalk-riding cyclists tend to generate the most ire, yesterday a new target emerged: Guys playing cards on the sidewalk. Thankfully, these sidewalk fights seem to take place more in […]
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