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Eighth Avenue Protected Bike Lane Slated for 11-Block Extension

By Ben Fried | Jun 7, 2010 | 21 Comments

The Eighth Avenue protected bike lane is up for an 11-block extension from 23rd Street to 34th Street. Photo: BicyclesOnly/Flickr A reader sent along this item spied on the DOT events calendar for next week. On Wednesday the 16th, at Manhattan Community Board 4… DOT will present a proposal to extend the Eighth Avenue Bike […]

Will Robert Lieber’s Successor Finally Fill the Gaps in PlaNYC 2030?

By Noah Kazis | May 19, 2010 | 4 Comments

NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Lieber. Photo: New York Daily News City Hall has another big vacancy to fill. This morning the Bloomberg administration announced that Robert Lieber, deputy mayor for economic development, is returning to the private sector. Lieber’s portfolio includes the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Department of […]

Getting to Know Stephen Goldsmith, NYC’s New Deputy Mayor

By Noah Kazis | May 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

New York’s new deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith. Photo: AP. As the new deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith will soon be responsible for a portfolio of about a dozen city agencies, including NYCDOT, the NYPD, and the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. To a certain extent, the livable streets agenda will go […]

Scott Stringer Asks: What Are Your Budget Priorities?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 2, 2010 | 5 Comments

If you had to choose where the city should cut funding, which mode of transportation would you target? Personal automobiles, cabs, Access-A-Ride? How about buses, subways, bikes, and pedestrian safety enhancements? This somewhat loaded prompt is one of several transportation-related questions posed by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in an online survey on the next […]

Instead of Scaling Down Parades, What If We Scaled Back on Police?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 23, 2010 | 10 Comments

Cops march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo: Nat Bane/Flickr When NYPD announced Monday that, effective April 1, city parades must be shortened in distance by 25 percent and may no longer exceed five hours — period — there was an understandable sense of disappointment. But since the move was framed as an unavoidable […]

The Next New York: How NYC Can Grow as a Walkable City

By Noah Kazis | Feb 22, 2010 | 12 Comments

In the last eight years, Amanda Burden's Department of City Planning has rezoned 20 percent of New York along relatively transit-oriented lines, while simultaneously promoting quasi-suburban projects at prominent sites and maintaining parking minimums that erode the pedestrian environment. In other words, the planning department is promoting growth in the right places, but enabling the wrong kind of development. So in the next four years, will New York's planners adopt more sustainable practices or continue the status quo?

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