Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Regional Plan Association

Replace Penn Station Rats’ Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard

By Brad Aaron | Dec 7, 2007 | 5 Comments

Penn Station concourse under West 33rd Street Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wants to trade parking spots for wider sidewalks and bike infrastructure on West 33rd Street, moving more Moynihan Station commuters above-ground. AMNY has the story: Stringer will float the idea to widen sidewalks and create bike lanes at a public hearing [Thursday] on […]

Good Streets Include Streetcars

By Alex Marshall | Dec 4, 2007 | 50 Comments

Last stop for Brooklyn’s trolley dodgers at Fairway Market in Red Hook. Devotees of the Red Hook, Brooklyn Fairway grocery store can have the pleasure, after loading up on gourmet salt and other essentials, of sipping coffee on their back veranda over looking the river. It’s a wonderful view. On your right is the Statue […]

Saturday: MTA to Liven Up Public Hearings

By Jason Varone | Nov 13, 2007 | 3 Comments

Next Saturday the MTA will be running a town hall-style meeting to take public input on various fare and financing options. The latest issue of Spotlight on the Region sums it up pretty well (as does the photo above): If you are tired of public hearings where outraged citizens stand at a microphone and rant […]

What Up, G?

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

Graffiti at the Metropolitan Ave. subway station on the G line. Streetsblog will be keeping an eye on Save The G, a new blog advocating for service improvements on the beleaguered G subway line. The blog is being produced by a coalition of civic groups and elected officials from Brooklyn and Queens, including, Queens Civic […]

Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC

By Alex Marshall | Aug 2, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Urbanist Musketeers: Alex Garvin, Jan Gehl and Fred Kent in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 30, 2006. Jan Gehl, the famed Danish urbanist, is in New York City this week where, sources say, he has been hired as a consultant for Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC program. At a presentation to the board of the Regional Plan Association […]

Brodsky Attacks Critics of His Congestion Pricing Study

By Jason Varone | Jul 11, 2007 | 41 Comments

On the Brian Lehrer show this morning, Assembly Member Richard Brodsky brushed off reports of his parking industry campaign contributions and TA, RPA and Streetsblog’s substantive criticism of his congestion pricing study as a "personal attack." Here’s a transcript: Brian Lehrer: Streetsblog, the website, reported yesterday that over the past five years you have accepted […]

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