Residents of all ages, electeds and planner-about-town Jan Gehl gathered at PS 87 last Thursday to mark the launch of &#8220;Blueprint for the Upper West Side: A Roadmap for Truly Livable Streets.&#8221; A year-long community-based project of the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance campaign, the Blueprint [PDF], as its name implies, offers a detailed vision…

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