Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Midtown

DOT Sets Construction Timeline for Permanent Ped-Friendly Times Square

By Brad Aaron | Mar 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

Think you can top this? Photo: berk2804/Flickr DOT yesterday announced a competition for temporary designs to "refresh" Times Square while the agency develops plans for permanent pedestrian plazas. According to a media release, the design phase for the permanent plazas will run for about the next 18 months, with construction set to begin in 2012. […]

DOT Plans to Bring NYC’s First Separated Busway to 34th Street

By Noah Kazis | Mar 2, 2010 | 101 Comments

What the 34th Street transitway might look like between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Image: NYCDOT When DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan hinted last Tuesday that bolder ideas were on the way for bus rapid transit in New York City, she apparently meant "next week." The DOT website now displays an updated plan for the next phase […]

Moynihan Station Is the First Big TIGER Stimulus Winner

By Elana Schor | Feb 16, 2010 | 17 Comments

New York City’s Moynihan Station project has snagged $83 million in grant money from the stimulus law’s Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced today. A rendering of the proposed Moynihan Station. (Photo: The Real Deal) The grant makes the intended successor to the current Penn Station, a longstanding priority […]

Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan Commit to a World-Class, 21st Century Broadway

By Ben Fried | Feb 11, 2010 | 30 Comments

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and leaders from the Midtown business community announced this morning that the new public spaces along Broadway will become permanent features of the city’s landscape now that an eight-month trial period has ended. The city will seek to build on the trial project’s success by […]

Bloomberg: The Transformation of Broadway Is Here to Stay

By Ben Fried | Feb 11, 2010 | 25 Comments

There’s no going back. Photo: nanpalmero/Flickr Eight months after New York City changed traffic patterns in midtown Manhattan, transforming Broadway and reclaiming acres of urban space for pedestrian plazas at Times Square and Herald Square, Mayor Bloomberg announced this morning that the trial has proven successful and the changes will be permanent. Streetsblog will post […]

Great Public Spaces for Midtown

By Ben Fried | Feb 3, 2010 | 9 Comments

The new Times Square versus the old Times Square — worth a few seconds of motorist inconvenience on a few streets. Photos: berk2804 and midweekpost via Flickr Mayor Bloomberg has seen some of the data from the city’s trial of car-free, pedestrian-priority spaces in Midtown, and it looks like the changes in traffic speeds are […]

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