Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | No Comments

Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas is keeping track of the street redesign currently underway at Ninth Ave. and 14th St. in Manhattan. Here is his Flickr photo set. Lockhart Steele at Curbed has named this project the "Bizarro Meatpacking Plaza."

CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 19, 2007 | 38 Comments

On Monday, July 9 the transportation committee of Community Board 8 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side took up the issues of congestion pricing and a new pair of crosstown bike lanes. Congestion pricing, it turns out, was the evening’s non-controversial issue. Even after a series of impassioned speeches against Mayor Bloomberg’s traffic reduction plan the […]

State Assembly Meeting in Manhattan to Talk Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 16, 2007 | 4 Comments

Brooklyn Assembly Member Jim Brennan (right) tells me that he sees sentiment against Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan running at about "three- or four-to-one against" among his colleagues. Brennan suspects that the plan may not even pass the Republican-controlled Senate. While Brennan supports congestion pricing himself, he is concerned that advocates have "over-sold the benefits […]

DOT Media Blitz Forthcoming

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 13, 2007 | 16 Comments

Laura Conaway at the Village Voice caught the filming of a bike lane-related television ad near Lafayette and E. 4th Street yesterday. We’re guessing that either MyBikeLane brought in some venture capital funding and is going big-time or the Dept. of Transportation was filming a public service advertisement. We’re leaning towards the latter because we’ve […]

It’s Getting Better All the Time

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

NYC is ChangingA StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr. Running Time: 1 minute 55 seconds Clarence Eckerson put together a really nice little StreetFilm featuring some of the public space improvements that are now underway in various parts of New York City. He’s got before-and-after shots of 9th Street Bike Lane, DUMBO Pearl Street Piazza, Broadway […]

Bloomberg Stadium Foes Urge Silver to Support Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 4 Comments

Then: "Honk No" to Mayor Bloomberg’s plan. Now: Stop honking and pay $8. Bloomberg’s West Side stadium foes are now his congestion pricing friends. Manhattan Community Boards 4, 5 and 6 are holding a joint public hearing on the PlaNYC congestion pricing proposal tonight at 6:00pm. In an interesting twist of politics, the West Side […]

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