Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

When Cycling Becomes the Norm

By Ben Fried | May 13, 2009 | 10 Comments

Following up on Sarah’s post this morning, here’s a Bike to Work Week special from Mikael Colville Andersen, the mastermind behind Copenhagenize and Copenhagen Cycle Chic. Colville Andersen’s blogs are like extended odes to urban cycling and bike culture, and in this vid he shows what bicycling looks like when it’s seen as a "normal" […]

Streetfilms Inspires New Jersey “Traffic Safety Quilt”

By Brad Aaron | May 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

Check out this livable streets story from Ocean City, New Jersey, where a local arts group, high school art students, and the police department teamed up for a street mural installation. The kicker: the project was inspired by Streetfilms (look for the shout-out at the 4:30 mark). Ocean City Mayor Sal Perillo says the benefits […]

Livable Streets Promised Land

By Ben Fried | Apr 9, 2009 | 13 Comments

Here’s a nice visual of what cities will look like when the livable streets movement has completely emerged from the wilderness (sorry for the extended metaphor, couldn’t help it today). GOOD Magazine ran this photosim done by our very own Carly Clark in their transportation issue, with text by Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Aaron Naparstek. They’ve got […]

SeeClickFix: Is “Little Brother” the Next Big Thing?

By Matthew Roth | Mar 25, 2009 | 6 Comments

SeeClickFix users report Union Street gridlock The next generation of community-driven reporting of quality-of-life issues — like potholes, graffiti, garbage buildup, or broken street lights — is SeeClickFix, software that enables users to populate a map with cases that are then forwarded to the responsible city agency. Much like a 311 system, SeeClickFix is predicated […]

Union Street Becomes a “Secret Garden”

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 20, 2009 | 6 Comments

Matt Jones at the Secret Garden from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo. I was getting ready to put out the recycling one Wednesday evening a few weeks back when I heard what I thought sounded like someone playing a Bonnie Prince Billy album out in front of my house. Climate change notwithstanding, February is early for the […]

ITDP: New York a World Leader in Sustainable Transport

By Brad Aaron | Jan 12, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Walter Hook, ITDP New York is one of five cities nominated by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy for its 2009 Sustainable Transport Award. Click through to see what measures taken by other nominees — Beijing, Istanbul, Mexico City and Milan — merited ITDP consideration. As for NYC’s breakthrough year, we couldn’t sum […]

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