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Ninth Ave. Renaissance Forum: Less Traffic, Better Streets

Ninth Avenue Renaissance invites you to attend a town hall meeting on traffic congestion in Hell's Kitchen. Expected speakers include Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Tim Tompkins of the Times Square Alliance and Fred Kent of Project for Public Space, but most of the agenda remains focused on community input.

By Aaron Donovan

1:39 AM EST on January 3, 2007

Ninth Avenue Renaissance invites you to attend a town hall meeting on traffic congestion in Hell’s Kitchen. Expected speakers include Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Tim Tompkins of the Times Square Alliance and Fred Kent of Project for Public Space, but most of the agenda remains focused on community input.

Co-sponsored by:

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
State Senator Thomas K. Duane
Congressman Jerrold Nadler
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried
Manhattan Community Board 4

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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