Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Plazas

Diversity Plaza Wishes You a Happy Valentine’s Day

By Stephen Miller | Feb 13, 2015 | 3 Comments

In preparation for Valentine’s Day, the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership set up a camera in Jackson Heights’ Diversity Plaza to learn how to say “I love you” in some of the 138 languages spoken in Queens. Diversity Plaza lives up to its name. In the video you’ll hear Farsi, Bangla, Hungarian, Italian, Urdu, Basaa, and Tibetan. Located in the heart […]

City May Turn Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Ramp Into Pedestrian Space

By Brad Aaron | Feb 13, 2015 | 9 Comments

A nice-sized pedestrian space is shaping up in the Financial District, thanks to the Downtown Alliance, City Council Member Margaret Chin, and Community Board 1. Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza is separated from Trinity Plaza by a redundant exit ramp for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The Broadsheet Daily reports that the Alliance wants the city to close […]

Hudson Square Plaza Revamp Leaves Shared Space Street for Another Day

By Stephen Miller | Feb 6, 2015 | 16 Comments

A plan to convert a two-block street on the border of Soho and Hudson Square into shared space is going to sit on the shelf — for now. The Parks Department and the Hudson Square Connection Business Improvement District are splitting the cost of a $6 million plan to overhaul a triangular park along Sixth […]

The Search Is on for Healthy Food Vendors to Serve This South Bronx Plaza

By Stephen Miller | Jan 30, 2015 | 1 Comment

In the Meatpacking District, people can grab a seat and buy healthy prepared food from a vendor in a bustling plaza. But New Yorkers who live in less affluent neighborhoods tend not to have the same options — at least not yet. A new effort aims to bring several vendors to a plaza under construction in […]

New Year, Same Old Community Board 10

By Stephen Miller | Jan 16, 2015 | 11 Comments

Despite serving an area of the city where the vast majority of people don’t own cars, Manhattan Community Board 10 has delayed, watered down, or otherwise worked to foil several major projects to improve transit and street safety in the past few years. After obstructing 125th Street Select Bus Service and refusing to support traffic […]

Eyes on the Street: SUVs Planted in 14th Street Pedestrian Plaza

By Brad Aaron | Nov 17, 2014 | 16 Comments

“The Vanishing Game” is a Range Rover ad posing as a book. What a fitting title for this takeover of the pedestrian plaza at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue, a sizable area of which disappeared over the weekend under a couple of luxury SUVs. True to the ad-as-book fakery, these things were tilted on jacks […]

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