Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Space

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 […]

Eyes on the Street: Weekend Edition

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 21, 2006 | 5 Comments

I recently took this boat, a water taxi, from Red Hook to South Street Seaport. Landing at the Seaport after having just been in Red Hook about five minutes earlier gives one an odd supernatural sense of having been teleported.

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 […]

Traffic Engineering by Body Count

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2006 | 2 Comments

Van Brunt and Wolcott Streets. Before paint, July 7. After paint, July 14. The New York Observer’s Real Estate reported that the woman struck by a mini-van pulling out of the Fairway Market parking lot in Red Hook on Thursday, July 6, has died. The Daily News identified her as Janett Ramos, 45, of Sunset […]

Vehicle City

By Ethan Kent | Jul 16, 2006 | No Comments

Foreign correspondence from Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces: I was working in Flint, Michigan the first part of this week. Remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine "Steets Rennaissance." Flint originally built itself around the car and, after […]

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