Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit-Oriented Development

Eyes on the Street: At Knickerbocker Ave. Station, No Such Thing as TOD

By Noah Kazis | Nov 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

This isn’t what transit-oriented development is supposed to look like. Reader Christopher Taylor Edwards sent us these photos from two blocks of Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick. Immediately adjacent to the M train, suburban-style development — complete with single-story buildings, drive-throughs and underutilized parking lots — marks the end of a vibrant commercial corridor. One block down […]

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HUD Awards Bring “Bittersweet” End to Sustainability Program

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 23, 2011 | No Comments

Just days after the interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities was issued a death blow by having its funding axed in the FY2012 transportation budget, which President Obama signed into law Friday, HUD issued a reminder of just how sad that loss is: The agency released its list of 2011 award grantees — communities embarking on […]

Department of City Planning Continues to Restrict Development Near Transit

By Noah Kazis | Jul 6, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Department of City Planning’s commitment to rezoning the city along more transit-oriented lines is a critical component of its sustainability agenda. Allowing more people to live and work next to transit means more people will ride transit and fewer will drive. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden, upzonings have indeed […]

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$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2011 | No Comments

With multiple versions of two years’ worth of federal budgets flying around, some details are still emerging about what’s in and what’s out. At the end of last week we heard that the FY2011 budget, which has been sent to the president for his signature, includes $100 million for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. According […]

HUD Grant Will Lay the Groundwork for TOD in New York and Connecticut

By Noah Kazis | Apr 15, 2011 | 8 Comments

From Suffolk County to New Haven, the communities of New York and Connecticut are planting the seeds for a serious investment in transit-oriented development in the years ahead. Funded by a $3.5 million grant from HUD’s Sustainable Communities program, nine cities, two counties and six regional planning organizations have come together to develop regional plans […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: Transit-Oriented Development

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 15, 2011 | No Comments

For the first chapter in Streetfilms’ Moving Beyond the Automobile series, we’re taking a look at transit-oriented development, more commonly known by the acronym TOD. Streetfilms headquarters is a short train ride from some great TOD success stories taking shape along a stretch of New Jersey’s Hudson River coast. Across the river from NYC, transit-oriented […]

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