Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Planning

Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re the Yankees. Following up on his tour of the smelly swath of plastic turf the Yankees installed in the South Bronx after turning actual park land into a stadium construction site, Neil deMause reports in the Village Voice that a clause […]

DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2007 | 3 Comments

Howard/Stein-Hudson consultant Chris Ryan directs UWS traffic Over 200 Upper West Siders turned out last night to tell the DOT what they think of street conditions in their neighborhood. Held at John Jay College Auditorium on 10th Avenue and 58th Street, the premiere "listening session" of the West Side Transportation Study attracted "one of the […]

Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 21, 2007 | 20 Comments

Monday, September 246:00 to 9:30 pmJohn Jay College899 Tenth Ave. (at 58th St.)RSVP to westsidestudy @ hshassoc . com or (917) 339-0488 Do you have thoughts about improving the bicycle, pedestrian and transportation environment on the Upper West Side? In conjunction with Councilmember Gale Brewer, the Department of Transportation would like to hear your thoughts, concerns […]

Making the Case for Compact Development

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 21, 2007 | 9 Comments

From the people at Smart Growth America comes word of a new book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, just out from the Urban Land Institute. In the book, researchers argue that more compact development (such as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in Atlanta built on reclaimed industrial land, shown at […]

Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

The folks over at the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership have unveiled the results of a collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) undertaken over the last couple of years. Two public workshops were held to get community input on the plans, which address four different areas of Myrtle Avenue, one of the main commercial […]

Does New York Need a ‘New Moses’?

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2007 | 24 Comments

Okay, so the question comprising the title of this post sounds naive enough to border on rhetorical. But in light of the city’s current development climate, it takes a stronger resolve than mine to read "Power Broken," by NYU’s Thomas Bender, without wondering which side of the fence to come down on. Published in the latest edition of […]

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