Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Hell’s Kitchen Parking Plan Continues to Confound

By Brad Aaron | Nov 6, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Daily News has picked up on the city’s court battle to bring some 20,000 new parking spaces to the far West Side, a plan that — along with at least one or two other notorious examples — is directly at odds with the Bloomberg administration’s ambitious environmental agenda. Local residents are suing to block […]

Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 6, 2007 | 5 Comments

Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton and Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan will be talking about this evening’s Upper West Side Streets Renaissance workshop with Jan Gehl on the Brian Lehrer Show, 93.9 FM, at 10:40am.

“A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 2 Comments

As we lead up to next Tuesday’s big Upper West Side Streets Renaissance workshop with Jan Gehl (have you submitted your RSVP yet?) here is another StreetFilm delving in to the kinds of issues we hope to be talking about. In this segment, Upper West Siders Mark Gorton and Lisa Sladkus briefly examine just how […]

Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 1, 2007 | 18 Comments

David Dartley sends this in: Perhaps it’s just as well that I only had the crappy camera on my cell phone and you can’t see much detail. A taxi had smashed into a storefront on Madison Ave. just above 53rd St. On the other side of a taxi, there was a person lying face-down on […]

Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 11 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson took to the streets in costume to check on the progress of DOT’s new 9th Avenue physically separated bike lane. The pleasant surprises continue as new signs, markings and cyclist-oriented traffic signals have recently appeared. Although driver behavior continues to improve, there are still a few problems to highlight, as well. If […]

RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

Help shape the neighborhood streets of the Upper West Side. Work with your neighbors to create beautiful, green streets with safer bike lanes, great walking spaces, less traffic and cleaner air. The Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign is holding a series of events aimed at empowering residents to re-imagine neighborhood streets and make their […]

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