Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

Robin Chase: “The Web 2.0 of Transportation Technologies”

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 15, 2007 | 23 Comments

Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar and the founder and CEO of GoLoco, a ride-sharing service that uses social networks like Facebook to connect people who want to carpool. A Harvard University Loeb Fellow, Chase is an authority on the use of wireless and mesh network technology as it applies to […]

Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians

By Ethan Kent | Oct 15, 2007 | 27 Comments

Construction is underway on what may be the nation’s most advanced urban greenway system. Indianapolis, Indiana is making what could be the boldest step of any North American city towards supporting bicyclists and pedestrians. Known as an extremely auto-oriented city, most closely associated with the Indianapolis 500, this is one of the last cities we […]

City Approves Subsidized Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 9, 2007 | 15 Comments

Yes, the Yankees’ season is over. But on the bright side, this morning the city handed the team a nice consolation prize: $225 million in tax exempt bonds for parking deck construction at the new Yankee Stadium. Under the agreement, the city will give up some $2.5 million in taxes, with an estimated $5 million […]

“En-Suite” Parking, for the Discerning Antisocial Urbanite

By Brad Aaron | Oct 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

Love the glamor and glitz of the city but looking to avoid unpleasant public spaces, like sidewalks and building lobbies? Then 200 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea may be for you. Featuring "New York’s first En-Suite Sky Garage," which will allow residents to enter and exit their apartments without coming into contact with another human soul, […]

Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re the Yankees. Following up on his tour of the smelly swath of plastic turf the Yankees installed in the South Bronx after turning actual park land into a stadium construction site, Neil deMause reports in the Village Voice that a clause […]

Making the Case for Compact Development

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 21, 2007 | 9 Comments

From the people at Smart Growth America comes word of a new book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, just out from the Urban Land Institute. In the book, researchers argue that more compact development (such as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in Atlanta built on reclaimed industrial land, shown at […]

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