Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Superblocks

Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

The folks over at the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership have unveiled the results of a collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) undertaken over the last couple of years. Two public workshops were held to get community input on the plans, which address four different areas of Myrtle Avenue, one of the main commercial […]

A Streets Renaissance in Lower Manhattan

By Brad Aaron | Sep 12, 2007 | 10 Comments

Last weekend the New York Times published a nice piece about a resurgence in downtown Manhattan street life. Optimism abounds now among developers and merchants, who are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into real estate along the narrow streets of Lower Manhattan. They are counting on the district, in its next incarnation, to be not […]

Atlantic Yards Planner: “Space on Streets is Useless Space”

By Jason Varone | Feb 22, 2007 | 18 Comments

In this week’s New York Observer, Matthew Schuerman talks at length with Laurie Olin, the landscape architect who may or may not have been teamed up with starchitect Frank Gehry on Forest City Enterprise’s Atlantic Yards project "to compensate for Mr. Gehry’s reputed lack of urban-planning skills." Schuerman writes: Mr. Olin’s role in the project […]