Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Waterfront

Questions Remain for Hunter’s Point South Transpo Plan

By Noah Kazis | Feb 9, 2011 | 6 Comments

This morning, the Bloomberg Administration announced the developer for the first phase of Hunter’s Point South, a Long Island City project the city is billing as the largest middle-class housing project since Co-Op City and Starrett City went up in the 1970s. A team led by the Related Companies will be developing the first 900 […]

Draft Plan for Waterfront Promises Greenways, Silent on Ferries

By Noah Kazis | Sep 17, 2010 | 6 Comments

With New York City in the midst of a wholesale rethinking of its more than 500 miles of waterfront, the Department of City Planning recently released a draft of its new comprehensive waterfront plan, Vision 2020. That plan lays out both broad citywide objectives, such as a commitment to building borough-wide greenways across the city, […]

Public Tells Planning Commission They Want a Walkable Riverside Center

By Noah Kazis | Sep 16, 2010 | 20 Comments

A hearing on the Riverside Center mega-development yesterday revealed a popular hunger for a more walkable West Side and perhaps some interest from the City Planning Commission in the same. Extell Development is looking to build a housing and retail complex, including 1,800 parking spaces, on this waterfront site equivalent in size to two Manhattan blocks. […]

Final Deal on New Domino Locks in Parking, Adds Shuttle Buses

By Noah Kazis | Jun 30, 2010 | 13 Comments

Add a whole lot more cars and some shuttle buses to this picture, and you’ve got the approved plan for the New Domino. Image: The New Domino The New Domino development slated for the Williamsburg waterfront passed the City Council’s land use committee yesterday in a unanimous vote, thanks to a last-minute deal between the […]

Saturday: Input Wanted on Inwood Waterfront Esplanade

By Brad Aaron | Mar 18, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo via NYCEDC For years, the New York City Economic Development Corporation intended to have the Sherman Creek area in eastern Inwood rezoned for higher-density residential and commercial development. That effort was ultimately abandoned when stakeholders couldn’t come to terms, but as the Manhattan Times reports, plans survive for a waterfront esplanade along the Harlem […]

Billyburg’s “New Domino” Mixes Parking Disaster With Bike-Ped Benefits

By Noah Kazis | Mar 4, 2010 | 27 Comments

The New Domino development proposed for the Williamsburg waterfront made headlines last week when a Brooklyn Community Board 1 committee voted against enabling its construction. This privately financed project is worth a close look because it exemplifies how developers can embrace certain livable streets goals while ignoring the big picture of traffic. It’s the kind […]

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