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What Would It Take to Run a Successful East River Ferry Program?

By Noah Kazis | Dec 1, 2010 | 16 Comments

A few more details about the city’s new subsidized East River ferry service were revealed at a Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance panel yesterday afternoon, including the route’s stops and hours. Mostly, however, the panel offered advice on what it will take to make ferries successful and provided some valuable context for the public discussion about waterborne […]

NYCEDC Building a Park(ing Lot) for Downtown Brooklyn

By Noah Kazis | Sep 27, 2010 | 28 Comments

If you’ve ever wished you could dodge more cars and inhale more exhaust on your way to the park, Downtown Brooklyn’s next green space is for you. It will be built on top of a garage with nearly 700 underground parking spots. Last Thursday, the city’s Economic Development Corporation released a request for proposals to […]

Fordham Plaza Overhaul Promises Big Improvements for Pedestrians

By Noah Kazis | Aug 3, 2010 | 24 Comments

Plans for a re-designed Fordham Plaza would add 15,750 square feet of public space. Image: NYCEDC/DOT Fordham Plaza, one of the city’s busiest transit and retail hubs, but also one of its most dangerous, is slated for a major redesign [PDF] by NYCDOT and the Economic Development Corporation. Highlights of the badly-needed overhaul include a […]

EDC’s Queens Plaza Project Adds Better Bike-Ped Routes, Subtracts Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jul 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

The Queens Plaza North bike lane will run in a center median. Image: NYCEDC Protected bike paths are coming to Queens Plaza as part of a major redesign of the area by the city’s Economic Development Corporation. Construction work to transform the dangerous, overwide streets and surface parking at "the gateway to Queens" has been […]

Yankee Stadium Parking Boondoggle Getting Worse Every Day

By Ben Fried | Jun 16, 2010 | 9 Comments

The subsidy for the new Yankee Stadium’s 9,000 parking spaces keeps turning into a worse deal for New York City taxpayers. Juan Gonzalez reports in the Daily News that the garage operator is deep in the red, even after last year’s extended championship season: As of this month, Bronx Parking Development LLC owes the city […]

City Bigs, Local Electeds Back Deal to Bridge East River Greenway Gap

By Glenn McAnanama | Jun 8, 2010 | 16 Comments

On Sunday, a group of city officials and East Side electeds made their case for a deal to close the gap in the East River Greenway, addressing a full auditorium at the Schottenstein Cultural Center on East 34th Street. The deal has several moving parts, but the major takeaway was that the Bloomberg administration and […]

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