Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Nick Whitaker

Streetfilms: Chicago’s Sunday Parkways

By Ben Fried | Nov 3, 2008 | No Comments

Streetfilms contributor Nicholas Whitaker files this report from Chicago, which put on a pair of major car-free events last month called Sunday Parkways. Recently Streetfilms has also covered car-free events in New York, Portland and San Francisco, and like the Summer Streets video, this one features a guest turn from Gil Peñalosa, one of the […]

Streetfilms: Going Car-Free in Milwaukee

By Brad Aaron | Aug 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

Summer Streets may be getting most of the attention lately, but New York isn’t the only US city opening its streets to public use. On a recent visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Streetfilms contributor Nick Whitaker captured two car-free events happening at once. First, the Brady Street Festival, which has roots going back to the 1970s, […]

Streetfilms: Pedestrians Storm Smith Street, Sans Autos

By Ben Fried | Jul 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

Every year, on the Sunday closest to Bastille Day, Brooklyn bistro Bar Tabac helps put on one of the city’s finest car-free events, turning two blocks of Smith Street into a neighborhood party. As restaurants take over sidewalks with café seating and shady tents, the center of the street transforms into a sandy arena for […]

Streetfilms: A Look at Bus Rapid Transit in L.A.

By Brad Aaron | Apr 11, 2008 | 3 Comments

Nick Whitaker files this first in a series of Streetfilms on transportation for Streetsblog Los Angeles. Here, we hear from LA City Council Member Wendy Greuel, Director of LA County Regional Transit Planning Rex Gephardt, and Executive Director of the Transit Coalition, Bart Reed, on how the city’s burgeoning Bus Rapid Transit system can be […]

StreetFilm: The Street Life of Havana

By Ben Fried | Feb 26, 2008 | 40 Comments

Ethan Kent of Project for Public Spaces recently returned from a trip to Havana with a trove of pictures, cut together in this Streetfilm by Nick Whitaker. Whatever changes are in store for the country in the wake of Fidel Castro’s departure from power, these images make clear that the dense, flourishing street life of […]

Streetfilm: NYC Bike Move

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 22, 2008 | 33 Comments

Inspired by a previous Streetfilm from Portland, Oregon, filmmaker Nicholas Whitaker decided to answer the challenge and bring you, "Bike Move Too." When his girlfriend Jes Schultz was priced out of her Fort Greene Brooklyn apartment, they decided to call a few friends with bikes and move her out, futon and all, to a new […]

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