Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

“Don’t Block the Box” Bill Clears Albany

By Ben Fried | Jun 23, 2008 | 23 Comments

With 2800 agents able to enforce rules against blocking the box, drivers may soon take these signs seriously. A bill intended to step up enforcement against drivers who block the box made it through the state legislature last Thursday. While the measure is not expected to play a major role in traffic reduction, it should […]

Feed the Meters, Feed the Homeless

By Brad Aaron | Jun 9, 2008 | 8 Comments

Brad Aaron files this report from Athens, Georgia. Bounded by the 615-acre campus of the University of Georgia (student population: 25,000), downtown Athens is in the midst of a decades-long revival. When department stores and other businesses left the area for shopping malls in the 70s, budding entrepreneurs took advantage of resulting cheap rents on […]

Hell’s Parking Lot

By Ben Fried | May 30, 2008 | 7 Comments

If there's one thing a neighborhood overrun by traffic doesn't need, it's more public parking garages. But that's exactly what New Yorkers who live by the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel will get if the City Planning Commission allows current development patterns to continue.

It’s Man Vs. Car in NYC and Tim Robbins is “The Rectifier”

By Aaron Naparstek | May 15, 2008 | 16 Comments

Granted, I always secretly hoped that Tom Hanks would play the Aaron Naparstek role in "Honku: The Movie" but Tim Robbins’ new film "Noise" is, without question, the early runner-up for Streetsblog’s 2008 Movie of the Year: David (Oscar-winner and New York City resident Tim Robbins) is a successful lawyer who can’t stand the fact […]

Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2008 | No Comments

With development projects across the city threatened by an uncertain economy, critics of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project believe that a slowdown in construction could burden Prospect Heights with decades of blight. A slide show by the Municipal Art Society, called "Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?," offers a bleak look into the future, like this […]

Streetfilm: A Pedestrian Paradise in Melbourne

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2008 | 17 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson recently made the journey to Melbourne, Australia, where he found a "new world city" redesigned for people-oriented development and mobility. Writes Clarence: Melbourne is simply wonderful. You can get lost in the nooks and crannies that permeate the city. As you walk you feel like free-flowing air with no impediments to your […]

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