Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Space

Meatpacking Plaza Update

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 1, 2007 | 3 Comments

Here’s another photo from Mike Epstein showing progress on the Ninth Avenue redesign at 15th and 14th Streets. The photo is looking southbound. It’s looking like most of the traffic engineering is basically done — note the new bike lane running along the left-hand side of the photo. Now let’s see what sort of public […]

A Solution to Stroller Rage

By Alex Marshall | Jul 31, 2007 | 51 Comments

The feminine part of "women and children first" has, perhaps, been dropped in our more equitable and less chivalrous times, but the kid side of the sum has not, at least that’s my sense of things. As a society, we generally try to put children first knowing they are our world’s future, not to mention […]

Official Statement on Central Park Car-Free Hours Increase

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 31, 2007 | 30 Comments

As we reported yesterday, starting Monday, August 6, Car-Free time in Central Park will be increased by one hour in the morning on the Park’s West Drive. Here are the details from the Dept. of Transportation: New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today announced further […]

Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | No Comments

Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas is keeping track of the street redesign currently underway at Ninth Ave. and 14th St. in Manhattan. Here is his Flickr photo set. Lockhart Steele at Curbed has named this project the "Bizarro Meatpacking Plaza."

CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 19, 2007 | 38 Comments

On Monday, July 9 the transportation committee of Community Board 8 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side took up the issues of congestion pricing and a new pair of crosstown bike lanes. Congestion pricing, it turns out, was the evening’s non-controversial issue. Even after a series of impassioned speeches against Mayor Bloomberg’s traffic reduction plan the […]

The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 13 Comments

David Haskell, executive director of the Forum for Urban Design, and organizer of last week’s New York Bike-Share Project demonstration in Soho, says it’s time for New York City to ditch the London model and take a closer look at the traffic-reduction techniques Paris has implemented without congestion pricing. An op/ed in today’s New York […]

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