Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Out of Town

Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on “Faulty Assumptions”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 10, 2007 | 22 Comments

If you’re the type of person who has been following the Yankee Stadium parking garage story, or the Hudson Yards zoning story or the story about the city block in Prospect Heights that’s being leveled and turned into a gigantic surface parking lot, you may enjoy James Howard Kunstler’s column this week. The author of […]

The World’s Greenest, Most Livable Cities

By Jason Varone | Oct 8, 2007 | 9 Comments

Writing in this month’s Reader’s Digest, Matthew Kahn, an environmental economist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, analyzed data from 141 nations and ranked the planet’s greenest, most livable places. While Northern European nations like Finland, Norway and Sweden fared well, the United States performed poorly in several categories, ranking #107 in Greenhouse gases, #106 […]

Portland Sees Explosive Growth in Bicycling

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 28, 2007 | 21 Comments

Clever hedge fund managers have figured out ways to make money off of weather futures, the electricity grid and quite a few other unlikely sources. What I want to know is if anyone can help me find a way to invest my retirement savings in bicycling in Portland, Oregon. According to the latest numbers, it’s […]

More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 15 Comments

I was pretty sure that New York City had San Francisco beat for this year’s Park(ing) Day, what, with the children’s reading hour and the on-street gymnasium in Brooklyn; Staten Island and Queens getting in on the act; and German tourists frolicking on the sod in front of the MoMA (all captured by StreetFilms, […]

If Cyclists Think They’ve Got it Bad in NYC, Check Out L.A.

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 24, 2007 | 8 Comments

If you’re a New York City bike commuter and you’re feeling down about all of the pot holes, rude, dangerous drivers, and cops clipping locked bikes off of street furniture, two recent stories in LAist, the Los Angeles version of New York City’s Gothamist, might make you feel better: Hollywood Bus Driver Attacks Cyclist, LAPD […]

DC Could Mandate Bike Parking, Sort Of

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2007 | 9 Comments

While New York continues its on-again, off-again relationship with cyclists, Washington, DC is on the verge of requiring bike parking for commercial and residential development. Examiner.com has the story: The D.C. Council next week is expected to adopt legislation that could dramatically increase the number of parking spaces for bicyclists, a bill praised by the […]

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