Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Iris Weinshall

A New Vision for the Meatpacking District

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 23, 2006 | 6 Comments

The Gansevoort Project Aims to Turn a Chaotic Intersection into a Grand Piazza At Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s transportation policy conference last week, DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall said she was committed to working "with communities and other city agencies to reallocate street space" to "create public plazas in neighborhoods in all five boroughs." "These […]

The Iris Weinshall Renaissance

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 13, 2006 | 10 Comments

DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s speech was, for many long-time Livable Streets advocates, the single most remarkable aspect of yesterday’s Manhattan Transportation Policy Conference. As Jon Orcutt at TSTC noted, Weinshall’s speech "laid out an array of measures to improve New York’s pedestrian and bicycling environments, soften the quality of life impacts of heavy traffic, and […]

Live-Blogging the Manhattan Transpo Policy Conference

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | 19 Comments

I’m up at Columbia University covering Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference, live: 10:40 am: Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia is the keynote speaker. In only one three-year term as Mayor, Penalosa revolutionized the transportation system and public spaces of his city of 7 million (Mayors only get one term in office […]

NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 1 Comment

In the aftermath of September 11th, concrete and steel barriers sprouted like mushrooms around big buildings in New York City. It almost seemed to me to be a kind of status symbol. You knew you worked in an important building if your landlord had hardened it against truck bombs. The barriers were often ugly and […]

Endless Summer on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 20, 2006 | 4 Comments

For most New Yorkers the official end of summer is Labor Day which, this year, fell on Monday, September 4, 2006. For astronomers, pagans and Daniel Libeskind’s "Wedge of Light," the end of summer is the Autumnal Equinox, the moment when the sun crosses the celestial equator from north to south. By that measure, Fall begins […]

Weinshall and Budnick on WNYC

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 15, 2006 | 7 Comments

Did people have a chance to listen to Brian Lehrer’s interview with DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall and Transportation Alternatives’ Noah Budnick yesterday morning? If so, what did you think? Listen to the show right here.

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