Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity

By Alec | Jul 25, 2006 | 4 Comments

The death of Derek Lake, killed one month ago at age 23 when his bicycle tripped a metal plate on Houston Street, hints at a tragedy shared by all New Yorkers: City Hall’s continued insistence that the ultimate goal of a New York City street is to move as many cars and trucks each day […]

Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later

By Alec | Jul 25, 2006 | No Comments

Derek Lake died on June 26 when his bike tripped over a steel plate and fell beneath the wheels of a moving truck in the midst of Houston Street’s reconstruction mess. Brad Hoylman, a Village resident, chairs the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Community Board 2. Hoylman talks to Streetsblog about the Community Board’s reaction […]

Contested Seats

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2006 | 2 Comments

A correspondent reports: Last Thursday it was standing-room-only at the City Council screening of Contested Streets: Breaking NYC Gridlock. Over one hundred people packed the 75-seat hearing room at the invitation of Councilmember John Liu and other members of the City Council transportation committee. The new documentary film, co-produced by Transportation Alternatives and Mark Gorton, is proving […]

City Council Screening of “Contested Streets”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 20, 2006 | No Comments

Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 2:30 pm New York City Council250 Broadway, 14th Floor Hearing Room (across from City Hall). FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION with the NYC Council’s Transportation Committee "Contested Streets: Breaking NYC Gridlock" Thursday, July 20th, 2:30 pm Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringerand New York City Council Members John C. Liu, Joseph […]

Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life

By Alec | Jul 20, 2006 | 9 Comments

Hugh Hardy’s Greenwich Street South Study "The greatest achievement of New York is the streets," says architect Hugh Hardy. And he says we can achieve richer public places — if New York’s citizens can persuade officials to make those places serve people rather than cars. Hardy, who designed 42nd Street’s New Victory Theater and the […]

A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 19, 2006 | 8 Comments

This is an artist’s rendering of what West 125th Street would look like after Columbia University’s expansion is completed more than a decade from now. (It is included in an overview of the plans that appears in the print edition of Columbia magazine, which, um, hasn’t updated its web presence in a while.) Regardless of whether you’re […]

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