Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

The Fastest Way to Get to New Jersey

By Jason Varone | May 21, 2007 | 7 Comments

Bike courier Brendan McMullen displays the summons he received for riding through the Holland Tunnel NY Minute‘s courier company’s courier of the month knew exactly what to do when a client’s error resulted in a last minute dash to Jersey City: Courier 135, Brendan, picked up what he thought was a rush delivery to Hudson […]

Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941

By Aaron Naparstek | May 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

This striking color photograph was snapped on Broome Street near Baruch Place (a street that vanished beneath the Bernard Baruch housing project) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, September 27, 1941. The photo is part of the Charles W. Cushman collection at Indiana University. A tip of the hat to Kevin Walsh’s outstanding Forgotten […]

Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design

By Aaron Naparstek | May 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

A "woonerf" or "shared space" street design in the Dutch town of Haren. Yesterday a Streetsblog reader reported that the Department of Transportation is removing stop signs and installing traffic signals at some intersections in Battery Park City as a way "to provide for the safest streets possible citywide." The reader noted, "The area is […]

Time to Expand DOT’s Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals?

By Aaron Naparstek | May 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

A Streetsblog reader reports from Lower Manhattan: DOT is removing a series of stop signs from a five block street along the river in Battery Park City for reasons explained below. The street is lined on one side by a heavily-used waterfront park, and the other by residential apartment buildings and entrances to other parks. […]

Gridlock Sam on Car-Free Central Park

By Aaron Naparstek | May 16, 2007 | No Comments

Yesterday we put forth the argument that fastest, cheapest, easiest and most symbolically rich way for Mayor Bloomberg to initiate his new green agenda for New York City would be to make Central Park car-free during the summer of 2007. Last fall, in a wide-ranging interview with Open Planning Project executive director Mark Gorton, New […]

Days Numbered for City Parking Privileges?

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Michael Bloomberg (front row, fourth from right) with other mayors at the C40 Summit City employees should not have the right to free parking any more than New Yorkers who labor in the private sector, Mayor Bloomberg said Tuesday, hinting that the perk which entices 35 percent of government workers to drive to Manhattan could […]

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