Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks

By Jason Varone | Dec 3, 2007 | 15 Comments

We’re just catching up to this piece of good news in The Villager last week: With the Houston St. renovation project on the West Side finally nearing completion, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that the sidewalks between Sixth Ave. and W. Broadway on the street’s south side have doubled in width. And, in […]

Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 3, 2007 | 37 Comments

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel with comrades Karla Quintero of Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek to Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the livable streets movement there. We spent an entire Sunday, from 5am ’til nearly 5pm, riding bicycles around during Ciclovía, […]

Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal

By Brad Aaron | Nov 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Village Voice is reporting that Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion received $30,000 in campaign contributions from a firm that scored a $5 million air rights agreement for a pedestrian bridge to the new Yankee Stadium. Last summer the city agreed to pay $5 million to construct part of a pedestrian walkway to the new […]

The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 27, 2007 | 12 Comments

"It seemed to me that what was significantly undermining the ordinary daily happiness and health and economic life of both me and my fellow New Yorkers was the private car." –– Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist" Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton recently interviewed New York Times Magazine’s "The Ethicist," Randy Cohen, on the […]

DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 12, 2007 | 12 Comments

Via Brownstoner, the Department of Transportation is building out a nice street redesign project in Brooklyn right now as a part of its Ft. Greene Bike Lane & Traffic Calming Project (download a project description here). Formerly a 70-foot-wide one-way street, Carlton Avenue, above, has been converted to two-way operation with five-foot bike lanes on […]

Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 12, 2007 | 14 Comments

An op/ed by Eduardo Porter in today’s New York Times makes a passing suggestion that by reducing the number of people who do solo car commutes, congestion pricing would make New Yorkers happier. I can say this for sure: If it also reduces the number of honking, revving, careening and exhaust-spewing sociopaths clogging New […]

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