Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Design

Rocky Road

By Alex Marshall | Dec 19, 2007 | 26 Comments

Cycling intimately acquaints you with every bump, slice, crease, divot, ledge, ripple and of course pothole in a street, because not noticing means you might get thrown off your steed into bone-breaking and life ending car traffic. While riding along Lafayette Street in Manhattan, or Bergen Street in Brooklyn, or essentially anywhere in New York […]

What Makes a Place Walkable?

By Glenn McAnanama | Dec 14, 2007 | 10 Comments

Bikes at Work has an interesting database that uses census numbers to show how many people walk to their jobs in cities, towns and villages across the US. A quick search for the highest walk-to-work locations for towns with over 1000 people yields the following results: Location POP % Walk to work Naval Academy, Maryland […]

Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo) and the Design Trust for Public Space are launching an "Ideas Competition" called Reinventing Grand Army Plaza. Building on GAPCo’s on-going effort to re-envision this historic Brooklyn crossroads, the Ideas Competition will solicit new, creative proposals for Grand Army Plaza’s re-design. Top submissions will be exhibited in the summer […]

Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 12, 2007 | 28 Comments

Blinding headlights make cycling difficult on a mile-long uptown stretch of the Hudson River Greenway. Lars Klove is a professional photographer who lives way uptown and uses the Hudson River Greenway to bike to and from his apartment on 183rd Street just about every day. Now that it is getting dark earlier in the evening, […]

New Grand Army Plaza Concept is “Brilliantly Obvious”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 16 Comments

In the most recent issue of the Architect’s Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief William Menking has some very enthusiastic things to say about the Grand Army Plaza Coalition’s project, Rethinking Grand Army Plaza (download the proposal here) which was recently awarded a 2007-2008 Design Trust fellowship. Menking writes: This past month I served as a juror on the […]

Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 19 Comments

It looks like the street redesign around the Manhattan entrance of the Manhattan Bridge is nearing completion. Considering that Transportation Alternatives has been pushing for these fixes for years, that was pretty fast. DOT presented its plan to the local Community Board, to unanimous approval, in July; sketched out the lines on the street in […]

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