Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

Grand Plans for Brooklyn’s Iconic Public Space

By Jason Varone | Apr 19, 2007 | 7 Comments

In all of the uproar over DOT’s various transportation proposals for Park Slope last month (One Way? No Way! and 9th Street) this Grand Army Plaza project managed to slip beneath the radar. That’s too bad because it’s a really thoughtful and detailed piece of planning work that will help connect neighborhoods and improve the […]

Bicycle Advocacy TV Ads from the Netherlands

By Jason Varone | Apr 18, 2007 | 12 Comments

A collection of Dutch bicycle advocacy videosRunning time: 8 minutes 11 seconds We don’t understand a word of it, but in this video compilation from the Netherlands, we see what a well-funded television ad campaign to encourage cycling might look like. Or not. Check out the ad about three minutes in: It appears to show […]

SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo’s sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City’s plan to install new bike lanes […]

Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice

By Brad Aaron | Apr 17, 2007 | 3 Comments

Gotham Gazette talked recently with Cecil Corbin-Mark, of West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), about environmental justice in Upper Manhattan. WE ACT formed in 1988 to fight the siting of a sewage treatment plant, a bus depot and a garbage transfer station in an area already bearing an undue share of the city’s environmental […]

CB2 Committee Approves “Additional” Prince/Bleecker Routes

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

The CB2 Traffic & Transportation Committee met at the LGBT Center on Tuesday. A crowded and often contentious Tuesday night meeting yielded a compromise on proposed bike lanes through Lower Manhattan, one some fear could come at a cost. The Traffic & Transportation Committee of Community Board 2 voted 8-1 to recommend the DOT add […]

Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 9 Comments

The scene in front of Dizzy’s Diner on 9th Street and Eighth Avenue. Park Slope’s 9th Street corridor, with Prospect Park on one end and the Battery Tunnel on the other, has long been known as one of the most dangerous streets in the neighborhood when it comes to car crashes. In March 2004 two […]

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