Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Waterfront

Aiming to Reduce Car Use Around Brooklyn’s New Park

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 25, 2006 | 8 Comments

Some excellent news just came across the transom in a press release from the Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront Local Development Corporation. The are announcing "the launch of a transportation study that will examine potential future means of providing access to Brooklyn Bridge Park, with an aim to reduce reliance on personal vehicles." The study is being […]

The Suburbanization of NYC’s Waterfront

By Ethan Kent | Aug 28, 2006 | 12 Comments

Recently, a bunch of us took a bike excursion along the East River waterfront from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn to the new Water Taxi Beach in Hunters Point, Queens. Traffic was light most of the way and street life relatively heavy. Though currently dominated by old industrial buildings, the thriving neighborhoods adjacent to the waterfront seem […]

Eyes on the Street: Weekend Edition

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 21, 2006 | 5 Comments

I recently took this boat, a water taxi, from Red Hook to South Street Seaport. Landing at the Seaport after having just been in Red Hook about five minutes earlier gives one an odd supernatural sense of having been teleported.