Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Hell’s Kitchen

Streetfilms: Street Star Christine Berthet

By Jason Varone | Jan 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

Today, StreetFilms debuts Street Stars, the first of many planned vignettes for 2008 which will focus on the amazing organizers in our communities who are fighting constructively for livable streets. Hopefully, these Stars will provide a road map for change and inspire others to work to transform their neighborhoods. Their first choice is Christine Berthet, […]

Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 15, 2008 | 8 Comments

A few weeks back Atlantic Yards Report posted a compendium of recent writings that point to the contradictions inherent in, and problems resulting from, parking requirements for urban development plans. Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s much-praised PlaNYC 2030 contains a glaring omission, a failure to address the antiquated anti-urban policy that mandates parking attached to new residential […]

Hell’s Kitchen Parking Plan Continues to Confound

By Brad Aaron | Nov 6, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Daily News has picked up on the city’s court battle to bring some 20,000 new parking spaces to the far West Side, a plan that — along with at least one or two other notorious examples — is directly at odds with the Bloomberg administration’s ambitious environmental agenda. Local residents are suing to block […]

State Opposes City Plan for Hell’s Kitchen Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 24, 2007 | 9 Comments

In June we reported on the city’s effort to bring some 20,000 additional parking spaces to the Hudson Yards area on the far West Side, via a rezoning provision adopted in 2005. Though it’s a remnant of the failed stadium plan, the Bloomberg administration nonetheless intends to hold on the parking component, going so far […]

Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen

By Aaron Naparstek | May 7, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Ninth Avenue Renaissance project continues to evolve into the most thorough and impressive community-driven Livable Streets effort currently underway in New York City (the Gansevoort Project runs a close second). Following up on a design workshop facilitated by Project for Public Spaces in January, Ninth Avenue Renaissance has launched a survey that allows you […]

Are Phone Booths on Ninth Avenue a Pedestrian Menace?

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | No Comments

As reported in Sunday’s City section of the Times (Times Select required), residents of Hell’s Kitchen are concerned that the placement of a double phone booth at the corner of 45th St. and Ninth Ave. may have been a contributing factor in two pedestrian fatalities at that intersection. On May 22, 2000, a tour bus […]