Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl: Half of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 1 Comment

If you haven’t heard it already, WNYC’s Arun Venugopal has an outstanding piece on New York City’s rapidly changing transportation policies regarding bicycling. We hear from T.A.’s Noah Budnick, Copenhagen’s Jan Gehl, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYPD Chief Ray Kelly, Judy Ross of Times Up, and a moron in a huge SUV. Click here or […]

1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 8, 2007 | 5 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival’s "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn’t allowed to film the event so he published a nice write-up on StreetFilms. Some excerpts: Mr. Byrne, dressed in black and sporting his cool taxi-yellow […]

Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 7 Comments

The interim redesign of Ninth Avenue and 14th Street is done. Tables, chairs, planters and some of those giant granite blocks from DOT’s Bridges Division have been set out as multipurpose bollard-bench-tables atop a gravelly, earth-tone pavement surface. What was very recently one of the longest and most hectic pedestrian crossings in Manhattan, and no […]

NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 20, 2007 | 154 Comments

The Department of Transportation revealed plans for New York City’s first-ever physically-separated bike lane, or "cycle track," at a Manhattan Community Board 4 meeting last night. The new bike path will run southbound on Ninth Avenue from W. 23rd to W. 16th Street in Manhattan. Unlike the typical Class II on-street bike lane in which […]

A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

We reported yesterday that noted Danish urbanist Jan Gehl will soon be surveying New York streets with an eye toward improving them for human use. Gehl has been working in Sydney, Australia as of late, and an essay he wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald offers insight into what he may be looking for here in […]

DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project

By Brad Aaron | Sep 12, 2007 | 12 Comments

The New York City Department of Transportation has retained Danish urbanist Jan Gehl’s firm to evaluate city streets and other public spaces. Streetsblog first reported this development as a possibility back in June, when we interviewed Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. Not long after, we got word that Gehl had been hired by the city as a […]

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