Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parks

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 […]

Central Park Administrator Pushes East-West Bike Routes, Car-Free Park

By Noah Kazis | Sep 21, 2010 | 56 Comments

Central Park Conservancy head Douglas Blonsky wants his park to get a lot more bike-friendly, he revealed at a meeting of Manhattan’s Community Board 7’s parks committee last night. Not only is he working to create shared use paths that would allow cyclists to cross the park east-west safely and legally, he repeatedly announced his […]

DOT Proposes Safety Fixes to Help People Reach Harlem River Park

By Noah Kazis | Aug 20, 2010 | 5 Comments

Bridge traffic and very wide streets make the intersection of 135th and Madison difficult for pedestrians to cross, impeding access to the Harlem River Park. Image: Google Street View One of the biggest planning stories of the last decade is undoubtedly the opening of the New York City waterfront to the public. Across much of […]

The Hudson River Park Bike Seizure: Why’d They Do It?

By Noah Kazis | Aug 18, 2010 | 22 Comments

Though there’s a rule forbidding parking bikes to objects that aren’t racks, it’s easy to miss unless you already know what to look for. Photos: Noah Kazis Last Saturday, ten cyclists returned to where they had parked their bikes in Hudson River Park to find them gone. They had been attached to a railing along […]

Eyes on the Street: Cyclists Told to Walk Riverside-Hudson Greenway Link

By Brad Aaron | Jun 23, 2010 | 38 Comments

New, and contradictory, signage in Riverside Park. We got a couple of e-mails this week about a new directive from the Parks Department ordering cyclists to dismount on the Riverside Park path that connects the Hudson River Greenway and Riverside Drive at W. 72nd Street. On his Flickr page, BicyclesOnly says he learned of the […]

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Transforming Pavement to Parks in San Francisco

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 18, 2010 | No Comments

In San Francisco, the Pavement to Parks program has launched an initiative that may someday alter the way U.S. cities treat their commercial strips. Taking the PARK(ing) Day concept a step further, the Parklets Program is experimenting with allowing businesses to convert parking spaces into public spaces and cafes. The first was installed in March […]

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