Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Space

Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 12 Comments

I will not be able to attend tonight’s big meeting in Brooklyn so I really hope that someone will ask DOT about this and report back on what they say: At the big Houston Street bike lane meeting a couple of weeks ago, DOT’s Ryan Russo and Josh Benson told Manhattan’s Community Board 2 that […]

Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 12 Comments

As noted elsewhere, tonight the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 will consider a plan by DOT to redesign 9th Street from Third Avenue to Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Ninth Street is a very wide street for the number of vehicles that actually use it. Overly wide streets may tend to […]

Eyes on the Street: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

By Jason Varone | Mar 28, 2007 | 12 Comments

A tipster spotted this Parks Department garbage truck doing its morning rounds on the sidewalk at Plaza Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, near the Grand Army Plaza subway stop in Brooklyn today. "As far as I can tell," he writes, "the sole reason for it is so the workers don’t have to move the trash cans […]

Eyes on the Street: Randall’s Island

By Aaron Donovan | Mar 23, 2007 | 6 Comments

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 14, 2007 | 10 Comments

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way Running time: 5 minutes 10 seconds In Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Department of Transportation has put forward a plan to convert a pair of two-way neighborhood avenues to one-way operation. DOT says that the plan is designed strictly "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street," but […]

Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Daily News and New York Sun have more details on DOT’s plan to speed up buses on Broadway south of Houston Street.

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