PlaNYC Neighborhood Presentation: Astoria
If you want to know more about what PlaNYC offers for your neighborhood and you live in Astoria, please join Transportation Alternatives as it presents to residents, workers and business owners.
10:38 PM EDT on May 31, 2007
If you want to know more about what PlaNYC offers for your neighborhood and you live in Astoria, please join Transportation Alternatives as it presents to residents, workers and business owners.
Throughout the summer, Transportation Alternatives will be working in all five boroughs to educate New Yorkers about the bicycling, walking, mass transit and public space components of PlaNYC. If you are interested in having us speak at your block association, community board, Business Improvement District or civic group about PlaNYC’s transportation impact, email info @ transalt . org to set up a meeting.
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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