Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat

By Jason Varone | | 12 Comments
A new Columbia University study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, yet again, links livable streets to improved public health. The study reports: "There are relatively strong associations between built environment and Body Mass Index, even in population-dense New York City," said Andrew Rundle, Dr.P.H., lead study author and assistant professor of epidemiology […]

Crack Down on Drivers, Not iPods

By Charles Komanoff | | 13 Comments
Two pedestrians were killed in New York City last December by private sanitation trucks, one on Park Avenue South in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn Heights. Both deaths followed the most common pattern of pedestrian death in New York — the peds were crossing the street, in the crosswalk, with the light, and a turning […]

The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook

By Ethan Kent | | 6 Comments
How can we get drivers to respect the communities they are driving though? How can we make traffic slow down if we can’t change the design of the street or the timing of the lights? How can a community reclaim its neighborhood streets? For a few short hours last weekend, Red Hook, Brooklyn, had an […]

Streetfilms: “A City Is a Means to a Way of Life”

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Manhattan on the Move ConferenceEdited by Nick Whitaker Running time: 6 minutes 52 seconds At last October’s Manhattan Transportation Policy Conference, convened by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, people from every neighborhood in Manhattan gathered to discuss a vision for the future of transportation in New York. In his keynote address, Enrique Peñalosa, the former […]

The Subway Should Be Free

By Aaron Donovan | | 32 Comments
George Haikalis of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, with microphone. Environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel, seated next to him, at far right, would reduce the subway fare to nothing. On December 23, 1943, the New York City subways carried more than 8 million people, said the labor relations arbitrator and environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel last night at […]
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