Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Parks

Grand Plans for Brooklyn’s Iconic Public Space

By Jason Varone | Apr 19, 2007 | 7 Comments

In all of the uproar over DOT’s various transportation proposals for Park Slope last month (One Way? No Way! and 9th Street) this Grand Army Plaza project managed to slip beneath the radar. That’s too bad because it’s a really thoughtful and detailed piece of planning work that will help connect neighborhoods and improve the […]

Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 1, 2007 | 14 Comments

Please note: This was an April Fool’s Day post… Dr. Thomas Frieden accepting his new job as DOT commissioner this morning in Central Park. In a major restructuring of the Bloomberg Administration, outgoing Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall will be replaced by Public Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden. Bloomberg’s surprise announcement came at a rare Sunday morning […]

Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 20, 2006 | 9 Comments

Photo: Metrolens Will of On NY Turf is urging people who care about bike safety on the Hudson River Greenway to attend tonight’s meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4’s Transportation Committee. Less than a month after a drunk driver leaving a party at Chelsea Piers drove onto the Hudson River Greenway and killed cyclist Eric […]

Central Park Cyclist in Serious Condition

By Aaron Donovan | Dec 14, 2006 | 25 Comments

Channel 7 has the story of a woman hit by a car in Central Park last night. (By the way, buy a Toyota!)

Reader Contributions

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2006 | 10 Comments

An apology to Streetsblog tipsters. Though our new, high-tech "Contribute to Streetsblog" page has been up and running for a few weeks, I’ve been having technical problems with the tips@streetsblog.org account and haven’t really been checking reader mail very regularly. The problem is now fixed and I’m excavating lots of excellent contributions. I’ll try to […]

File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 5, 2006 | 7 Comments

While New York City inexplicably continues to open up Central Park to motor vehicles from Thanksgiving to New Year’s as a "holiday traffic mitigation," London transformed its most popular shopping area this weekend into a car-free pedestrian zone for holiday shoppers and visitors. Stretches of Oxford and Regents Streets were made into car-free zones this Saturday, December 2 from 10:30 am […]

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