Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Hudson Yards

Let’s Chop Up Superblocks

By Alex Marshall | Feb 22, 2008 | 22 Comments

Forest City’s Atlantic Yards project would create two massive superblocks in Prospect Hts., Brooklyn Portland, Oregon, which has ascended the ranks of cities judged most walkable, bikable, and urbane, benefits mightily from its small 200-foot square blocks, which provide businesses more street frontage and people more streets on which to bike, cycle and walk. These […]

State Opposes City Plan for Hell’s Kitchen Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 24, 2007 | 9 Comments

In June we reported on the city’s effort to bring some 20,000 additional parking spaces to the Hudson Yards area on the far West Side, via a rezoning provision adopted in 2005. Though it’s a remnant of the failed stadium plan, the Bloomberg administration nonetheless intends to hold on the parking component, going so far […]

Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 20, 2007 | 20 Comments

Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron Janette Sadik-Khan: Four days. Streetsblog: Left in the legislative session? JSK: Yeah, well, maybe four days left, maybe more days. August in Albany. What can be better? SB: (Laughing) So, let’s start with something other than congestion pricing. How […]