Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

Traffic Engineering by Body Count

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2006 | 2 Comments

Van Brunt and Wolcott Streets. Before paint, July 7. After paint, July 14. The New York Observer’s Real Estate reported that the woman struck by a mini-van pulling out of the Fairway Market parking lot in Red Hook on Thursday, July 6, has died. The Daily News identified her as Janett Ramos, 45, of Sunset […]

Vehicle City

By Ethan Kent | Jul 16, 2006 | No Comments

Foreign correspondence from Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces: I was working in Flint, Michigan the first part of this week. Remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine "Steets Rennaissance." Flint originally built itself around the car and, after […]

Noise: NYC’s Top Neighborhood Quality of Life Problem

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 13, 2006 | 6 Comments

Today’s New York Post reports: Street noise is so out of control that frustrated and sleep-weary New Yorkers cite it as the Big Apple’s No. 1 problem, a new survey has found. This, according to a survey by former Congressman Peter Kostmayer’s organization, Citizens for New York. Kostmayer said that if half the drivers who […]

Why Only One Museum Mile?

By Ethan Kent | Jun 14, 2006 | 2 Comments

Some images and reflections from last night’s Museum Mile Festival: What if New York City’s streets were designed to support its cultural insitutions as destinations. What if New York City’s streets allowed the life and creativity inside these cultural institutions to spill out onto engaging sidewalks, plazas, and streets? In a big, crowded city, space […]

Pedestrian-Only Fifth Avenue: Tonight, a Three Hour Test

By Ethan Kent | Jun 13, 2006 | No Comments

Tonight is the Museum Mile Festival. From 6:00 to 9:00 pm, twenty-three blocks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 105th Streets will be closed to traffic for the event billed as "New York’s Biggest Block Party." Admission to the museums is free and there are all kinds of events, workshops and street performances. Project for Public Spaces got […]

The 96th Street Sidewalk Nibblers

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 8, 2006 | No Comments

Enjoy the new Clarence Eckerson film, "The Sidewalk Nibblers." "Erosion of cities by automobiles entails so familiar a series of events that they hardly need describing. The erosion proceeds as a kind of nibbling." –Jane Jacobs The New York City Department of Transportation and MTA recently announced plans for a big, new subway station with elevators in […]

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