Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parks

More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 25, 2006 | 1 Comment

It’s not everyday that people are out on the street doing art installations dedicated to parking and land use policy, so here are some more scenes from Park(ing) Day San Francisco, snapped by Clarence Eckerson:

Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day San Francisco

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 25, 2006 | No Comments

Park(ing) Day San FranciscoA Clarence Eckerson StreetfilmRunning time: 6:51 – 22.05 MB, QuickTime New York City Streets Renaissance Filmmaker Clarence Eckerson happened to be in San Francisco on Thursday during International Park(ing) Day. Organized by an art collective called Rebar Group, the idea behind Park(ing) is to reclaim curbside automobile parking spaces by temporarily transforming […]

Parking it in Midtown

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 21, 2006 | 21 Comments

Today is International Park(ing) Day. Also known as a "parking squat," Park(ing) is a quasi-legal reclamation of urban street space in which a metered, curbside parking spaces are transformed into urban parkland complete with sod, benches, trees and human beings. Here is how Park(ing) Day is being celebrated this morning in Midtown Manhattan on 8th […]

The Suburbanization of NYC’s Waterfront

By Ethan Kent | Aug 28, 2006 | 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 […]

The Post ‘Drops the Ball’ on Yankee Stadium Story

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 12, 2006 | 3 Comments

The Post had a story yesterday reporting on the last ditch effort to stop the Yankee’s bad plan to build a new stadium with fewer seats for us Yankee fans but dump more traffic and emissions on the already suffering low-income neighborhoods of the south Bronx. Here’s how the Post characterizes opponents of the plan: Stadium opponents, led by […]

Eyes On the Dog Run

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 8, 2006 | 3 Comments

Talk about "eyes on the street," there is a group of New York City residents who patrol the city’s streets and parks at all hours of the day and night, everyday. They are the city’s dog owners and dog walkers. And they are under attack. The boom in New York dog ownership owes itself in large […]

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