Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parks

City’s First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island

By Brad Aaron | Dec 20, 2007 | 8 Comments

It ain’t the Velib, but yesterday it was announced that Dutch team West 8 would design a 40-acre park for Governors Island, which will include a fleet of 3,000 wooden bicycles free for use by island visitors. The Times reports: The design, commissioned by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, calls for transforming much […]

Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo) and the Design Trust for Public Space are launching an "Ideas Competition" called Reinventing Grand Army Plaza. Building on GAPCo’s on-going effort to re-envision this historic Brooklyn crossroads, the Ideas Competition will solicit new, creative proposals for Grand Army Plaza’s re-design. Top submissions will be exhibited in the summer […]

New Grand Army Plaza Concept is “Brilliantly Obvious”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 16 Comments

In the most recent issue of the Architect’s Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief William Menking has some very enthusiastic things to say about the Grand Army Plaza Coalition’s project, Rethinking Grand Army Plaza (download the proposal here) which was recently awarded a 2007-2008 Design Trust fellowship. Menking writes: This past month I served as a juror on the […]

Silver: “We’re Not Doing Gansevoort Today.”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 23, 2007 | 10 Comments

From City Room: Speaker Sheldon Silver told City Room this morning that the Assembly would not act on the proposed West Side trash transfer station near Gansevoort Street in the meatpacking district, in his latest snub of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The station has been a priority for the mayor, who held a news conference […]

Silver Stalls Plan to Reduce Garbage Truck Traffic

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2007 | 23 Comments

Under the city’s proposed waste management plan, more trash would be hauled by trains and barges. Reactivation of a garbage transfer station that the city considers crucial to its waste management plan — a plan it says will reduce truck traffic and allow more waste to be moved by barges and trains — is being […]

Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re the Yankees. Following up on his tour of the smelly swath of plastic turf the Yankees installed in the South Bronx after turning actual park land into a stadium construction site, Neil deMause reports in the Village Voice that a clause […]

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