Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Sound Familiar?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
With nothing much happening in the American League East this Fall, we’ve been turning our attention to Boston’s burgeoning Livable Street movement instead. Last year a fellow named Jeff Rosenblum founded an organization called the Livable Streets Alliance that is setting out to do work similar to that of New York City’s Transportation Alternatives. Jeff’s group appears […]

NYPD Parking Abuse Scandal Widens

By Aaron Naparstek | | 67 Comments
Chinatown businessman Jan Lee was cuffed and detained for photographing police officers’ illegally parked cars in front of his shop. Despite threatening late night calls to his home phone from a Brooklyn police officer (who forgot to block his phone number from appearing on caller ID), CBS Channel 2’s Brendan Keefe continues his series of […]

The Cost of Free Residential Parking

By Glenn McAnanama | | 11 Comments
No Curbside Access for Trucks Create Traffic Jams Across the City There is a source of congestion on every city street that has a solution. We need trucks to deliver goods to our stores, deliver food to our restaurants and to move furniture into and out of our homes. 100% of Manhattan’s goods enter the island […]

Car Alarm Ruins Otherwise Excellent Meal

By Aaron Donovan | | 8 Comments
I had dinner last Saturday with a couple of people at Enzo’s Cafe on Arthur Avenue after a day spent helping prepare the route for the New York City Century bicycle tour, which this year will be sending twice as many people to the Bronx as it has in the past. To enjoy great outside air, we sat on the sidewalk. As one of […]

Dead Ball

By Alec | | 4 Comments
Whatever you think of the idea of a highrise cluster in Downtown Brooklyn, you have to worry that the sponsors of the Atlantic Yards project suggest that creating jobs and housing justifies the kind of planning that discourages street life. Among the lowlights of the marathon August 23 "public hearing" on the draft Environmental Impact […]

The Suburbanization of NYC’s Waterfront

By Ethan Kent | | 12 Comments
Recently, a bunch of us took a bike excursion along the East River waterfront from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn to the new Water Taxi Beach in Hunters Point, Queens. Traffic was light most of the way and street life relatively heavy. Though currently dominated by old industrial buildings, the thriving neighborhoods adjacent to the waterfront seem […]
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