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Biz Students See Ripe Market for Bike-Share in NYC

By Noah Kazis | | 7 Comments
A Nextbike kiosk in Tubingen, Germany. Image: Eldersign via Flickr. With bike-share systems launching in three major American cities this year, the question naturally arises: Does New York have an appetite for bike-sharing? Patricia Bayley and Martin Mazza say yes. Students at Barcelona’s IESE, one of Europe’s top business schools, Bayley and Mazza intend to […]

EDC Chief Seth Pinsky: Minimizing Parking “The Worst Thing We Could Do”

By Noah Kazis | | 27 Comments
Seth Pinsky, NYCEDC president. Image: NYCEDC. The NYC Economic Development Corporation’s predilection for suburban-style, parking-filled projects earned it last year’s Streetsie for worst city agency. Well, now we’ve got some more insight into what makes EDC tick. After an event at the New School last night, NYCEDC president Seth Pinsky told Streetsblog why his organization’s […]

Pro-Parking Policies Will Sully the Legacy of PlaNYC

By Brad Aaron | | 6 Comments
Photo: Getty via Daily Intel Former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, widely credited as the architect of PlaNYC, spoke at the Museum of the City of New York last week on the potential impact of Mayor Bloomberg’s signature program. According to City Room, Doctoroff considers the two-year-old environmental blueprint on par with such grand projects as […]
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