Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

City Planning Department Suggests Safer Streets, Better Buses for Red Hook

By Stephen Miller | Jan 16, 2015 | 11 Comments

Cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and lacking direct subway access, Red Hook can feel like an isolated part of Brooklyn. A study from the Department of City Planning, released last November, calls for expanded pedestrian space, new bus service to Manhattan, and bicycle and pedestrian safety fixes throughout the […]

How NYC Could Get More Transit Funding From Developers

By Stephen Miller | Nov 10, 2014 | 15 Comments

As the MTA capital plan funding gap has come into focus, there’s been a lot of discussion about how new development can help pay for the transit service it requires. It turns out the city already has a tool that links real estate with transit improvements, but it’s so limited that it’s been used to […]

DCP Sketches Out Waterfront Transit and Safer Streets for Western Queens

By Stephen Miller | Oct 10, 2014 | 11 Comments

A new transitway from LaGuardia Airport to Downtown Brooklyn is the most ambitious recommendation in a draft report [PDF] from the Department of City Planning on transportation in Western Queens, which also includes a raft of smaller changes that would make the streets of Astoria and Long Island City safer and more livable. While the transitway is the […]

To Make Atlantic Ave Safer, Advocates Want to Hear All About Its Problems

By Stephen Miller | Oct 1, 2014 | No Comments

Efforts to improve safety along Atlantic Avenue are moving ahead as advocates gain support and the Department of City Planning continues its study of the dangerous arterial street. Each year, about 140 pedestrians and cyclists are seriously injured or killed on Atlantic Avenue, according to Transportation Alternatives. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign ranked Atlantic the third-most […]

Planning For Growth and Safer Streets at Bronx Metro-North Stations

By Stephen Miller | Aug 28, 2014 | 6 Comments

Once the MTA’s East Side Access project is finally complete, a few additional upgrades will allow Metro-North’s New Haven Line trains to stop at new stations in the East Bronx and cross the Hell Gate Bridge before heading to Penn Station. The Bronx is also expected to grow faster than any other borough in the coming years. With both […]

A Proposal for Incremental Parking Reform in NYC

By Stephen Miller | Aug 19, 2014 | 16 Comments

In most of New York City, zoning requirements compel new development to include a certain amount of parking. These mandates make housing more expensive while causing more traffic and pollution, but the Department of City Planning took only the most timid steps to reform them during the Bloomberg administration, and the de Blasio administration isn’t shaping up […]

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