Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

The Berry Street open street is beloved enough that residents want to lock it in forever. Photo: North Brooklyn Open Streets Community Coalition

Now Brooklynites Call For Permanent Open Streets In Williamsburg And Greenpoint

By Dave Colon | Nov 4, 2020 | No Comments

Another county heard from!

Whole Foods parks bike on the sidewalk on Houston Street, which could probably also use a cargo bike corral.

Manhattan Panel Kills Proposed Cargo Bike Corral … To Save Five Parking Spots

By Dave Colon | Oct 22, 2020 | No Comments

"A loss of parking spaces in Lower Manhattan is a travesty," says one community board member.

Is this guy replacing a trip he'd usually take in a car? Photo: Dave Colon

E-Scooters Are Already Here — And The City Needs To Adapt

By Dave Colon | Oct 8, 2020 | No Comments

Say it now: We already need bigger bike lanes — and with more people riding scooters, we need them now.

Sign of the times: A temporary 'street for people' on the Upper West Side. Photo: Eve Kessler

New Civic Group — CityRise — Will Push Mayor To Counter ‘Carmageddon’

By Eve Kessler | Sep 23, 2020 | No Comments

CityRise will reach into tactical urbanist playbook in bid to make city streets livable post-COVID.

The Coming Carmageddon: Will Our Leaders Solve NYC’s Transportation Problem?

By Julianne Cuba and Dave Colon | May 15, 2020 | No Comments

When this is all over, will we be a city for cars or a city for people?

In a more perfect world, this is what Bleecker Street, looking south from West 10th Street, would look like. Rendering: Massengale & Co LLC, Gabriele Stroik Johnson

Op-Ed: ‘Open Streets’ Must Lead to Permanent Changes in Our City

By John Massengale | May 4, 2020 | No Comments

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Instead of going back to the old New York, choked with pollution and cars that don't move, we can decide what kind of city we want. Change the streets and change the city.

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