Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

Draft Plan for Waterfront Promises Greenways, Silent on Ferries

By Noah Kazis | Sep 17, 2010 | 6 Comments

With New York City in the midst of a wholesale rethinking of its more than 500 miles of waterfront, the Department of City Planning recently released a draft of its new comprehensive waterfront plan, Vision 2020. That plan lays out both broad citywide objectives, such as a commitment to building borough-wide greenways across the city, […]

Public Tells Planning Commission They Want a Walkable Riverside Center

By Noah Kazis | Sep 16, 2010 | 20 Comments

A hearing on the Riverside Center mega-development yesterday revealed a popular hunger for a more walkable West Side and perhaps some interest from the City Planning Commission in the same. Extell Development is looking to build a housing and retail complex, including 1,800 parking spaces, on this waterfront site equivalent in size to two Manhattan blocks. […]

Envisioning a New York Where Cycling Isn’t Just for Cyclists

By Noah Kazis | Aug 13, 2010 | 33 Comments

At a panel sponsored by the American Institute of Architects last night, two of the city’s top transportation planners joined one of its hardest-working bike advocates to discuss how to make cycling a mainstream mode in New York. The director of the Department of City Planning’s Transportation Division, Jack Schmidt, DOT Senior Policy Advisor Jon […]

DCP Report Adds Another Wrinkle to Measurements of NYC Cycling

By Noah Kazis | Aug 11, 2010 | 10 Comments

The number of cyclists on the Second Avenue bike lane, at 7th Street, has been on the rise. Image: DCP More New Yorkers are riding bikes than ever, but a new report from the Department of City Planning further complicates the effort to precisely determine how much cycling has taken off. The report, which looks […]

Big Box Mall’s Giant Parking Garage a Predictable, Preventable Waste

By Noah Kazis | Jul 8, 2010 | 43 Comments

Despite copious subsidized parking at East River Plaza, most customers still walk or take transit to get there. Who could have seen that coming? Image: Curbed In a surprise to few, the wannabe-suburban East River Plaza big box mall can’t fill its 1,428 space parking lot. As the Wall Street Journal reported this week, Manhattan […]

Bloomberg Touts Approval of 1,600 Parking Spaces at Flushing Commons

By Noah Kazis | Jun 24, 2010 | 8 Comments

Flushing Commons puts growth next to a major transit hub, but it’s stashing a lot of parking there as well. Image: Rockefeller Group Development Corporation. The City Planning Commission approved plans for the Flushing Commons development yesterday, sending the project forward through the land use approval process. Officials’ portrayals of this development, which will put 1,600 parking […]

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