Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Waterfront

Chicago: A City Whose Mayor Cares About Bicycling

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 8, 2006 | 12 Comments

November’s Governing Magazine has a great story on how big cities across the U.S. are gearing up to make themselves more bike-friendly. There is no mention of New York City, but check out what Chicago is doing and how they are doing it: In the next decade, it plans to expand its network of bike […]

Eric Ng Memorial Bike Ride This Saturday

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 5, 2006 | No Comments

There will be a memorial bike ride for Eric Ng, the cyclist killed by a drunk driver on the Hudson River Greenway last week. Details below. Also, here is a note from the Visual Resistance blog. VR are the guys who make the "ghost bikes:" I’ve been making ghost bikes for strangers for a year and […]

Drunk Driver Kills Cyclist on Hudson River Greenway

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 2, 2006 | 32 Comments

Gothamist has the sad, outrageous story.

The Idea of Rising Sea Levels is Sinking In

By Jason Varone | Nov 14, 2006 | 1 Comment

Some light reading from the Christian Science Monitor before tomorrow’s rumored Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability conference: The city’s Department of Environmental Protection, which manages the city’s freshwater supply and wastewater — 13,000 miles of pipe, total — formed a task force to look at the long-term effects of climate change. Among other things, the DEP […]

The Bronx is Burning Bicycling

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 26, 2006 | 3 Comments

In the aftermath of last weekend’s 5,000 rider Tour de Bronx, I thought it might be worth revisiting the the Department of City Planning’s August 2006 Bronx Harlem River Bicycle and Pedestrian Study. The study identifies a number of specific ways to carve out space for cyclists and pedestrians and help neighborhoods of the South Bronx get better connected to […]

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | No Comments

The Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Inititiave is one of the most inspiring and visionary development projects going in New York City right now. The project is very grassroots. Over ten years ago, three Brooklyn residents, Brian McCormick, Milton Puryear and Meg Fellerath got it in their heads that Brooklyn’s waterfront should have a bike path and linear […]

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