Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Planning

Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 12 Comments

As noted elsewhere, tonight the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 will consider a plan by DOT to redesign 9th Street from Third Avenue to Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Ninth Street is a very wide street for the number of vehicles that actually use it. Overly wide streets may tend to […]

A Tale of Two DOT Plans

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 2 Comments

Looking down Park Slope’s 9th Street at Prospect Park West. They call this "excess capacity." A lot of different things are happening on 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It’s got some gorgeous residential blocks, a bus route, a busy bustling commercial district including a post office, grocery store, car service storefront and lots of […]

Opposition Brewing to DOT’s Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 15 Comments

Tonight, 6:30 pm at Old First Church on 7th Avenue and Carroll Street, the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 hosts a blockbuster follow-up meeting to the "One-Way? No Way!" extravaganza of March 15. While I haven’t managed to get a look at DOT’s proposal, we know a few things about it: It will […]

A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | No Comments

All across the city neighborhood groups are coming together to re-envision and plan their own communities. In the last few months we’ve seen valuable community-planning processes taking place in Hell’s Kitchen, the Meatpacking District and, to a certain extent, along Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. People aren’t waiting around for real estate developers or city […]

An English Plan in New York

By Brad Aaron | Mar 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

The once traffic-filled street between Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery is now a thriving plaza. Climate change is a greater threat to London than terrorism, one of the city’s top planners said yesterday. Debbie McMullen (right), a one-time New Yorker who heads implementation of the "London Plan," made this matter-of-fact announcement at a Tuesday […]

StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 20, 2007 | No Comments

Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking Running time: 6 minutes 37 seconds "I don’t see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You’ve got your priorities exactly […]

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