Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Triborough Bridge

NYCDOT Prioritizes Sustainable Modes at Queens Approach to Triborough

By Noah Kazis | Jun 1, 2010 | 15 Comments

Plans for a new pedestrian area between Hoyt Avenue South and Astoria Boulevard. Pedestrians already crowd this space, which is only set off from traffic by striping (visible under the simulated sidewalk). Rendering: NYCDOT NYCDOT has proposed a significant street redesign for the base of the RFK Bridge (a.k.a. the Triborough) in Astoria [PDF], a […]

Economy Hitting the Skids? Time to Get Ambitious About Transportation

By Ben Fried | Oct 7, 2008 | 17 Comments

T.A. director Paul White sends along this little nugget he came across in the New York Times archive. Read it for a timely review (penned by a pre-Bilbao Herbert Muschamp) of a Municipal Art Society show staged the last time an economic downturn coincided with a presidential election, in 1992: "Steel, Stone and Backbone," which […]

You Can be a Streetsblog Contributor Too

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

This photo comes to us from Bicyclesonly who is uploading photos (of, you guessed it, bicycles only) to Flickr and tagging them "streetsblog." By tagging your photos as such, they will automatically pop up on our newly revamped "Contribute to Streetsblog" page over there in the upper left corner of the screen. You can upload […]