DCP Sketches Out Waterfront Transit and Safer Streets for Western Queens
A new transitway from LaGuardia Airport to Downtown Brooklyn is the most ambitious recommendation in a draft report [PDF] from the Department of City Planning on transportation in Western Queens, which also includes a raft of smaller changes that would make the streets of Astoria and Long Island City safer and more livable.
October 10, 2014
Manhattan CB 6 Backs East River Greenway Connector on 37th Street
It's going to become safer and easier to access the East River Greenway, thanks to a vote last night by Manhattan Community Board 6. In a surprisingly drama-free meeting, the board backed the recommendation of DOT and its own transportation committee for a two-way bike path on a single block of 37th Street, connecting the greenway to First Avenue.
October 9, 2014
Momentum Builds for Car-Free Trials in Central Park and Prospect Park
The very first Streetfilm was released 10 years ago, for a campaign that's on the verge of a major milestone today.
October 9, 2014
Pulaski Bridge Bikeway Likely Delayed Until Next Year
One of the most anticipated livable streets projects of 2014 probably won't get built until next year.
October 8, 2014
Rumor Mill: Safety Overhaul in the Works for the “Boulevard of Death”
Word on the street is that Queens Boulevard could be the first major arterial redesign initiated by Polly Trottenberg's DOT.
October 6, 2014
Kallos Puts Out a Meek Report on Upper East Side Street Safety
The Upper East Side is full of dangerous intersections, and residents are clamoring for bus countdown clocks, benches, and bike racks, according to a two-part report released today by Council Member Ben Kallos [PDF 1, 2]. It's not often a council member releases a report on livable streets, and Kallos should be commended for his interest. (DOT says it "has not received any similar reports from other elected officials.") But the report amounts to a wish list of small fixes, with nary a recommendation to improve street design and enforcement in the neighborhood.
October 3, 2014
Want Safer Connections to the East Side Greenway? Tell CB 6 on Monday
On Monday, the Manhattan Community Board 6 transportation committee is set to reconsider a plan to install a two-way protected bike lane on a block of East 37th Street, connecting First Avenue with the East River Greenway. The plan has run up against stiff opposition from residents of an adjacent condominium tower who don't want a bike lane on the same side of the street as their building.
October 3, 2014
Peak Sprawl? The Fringes of the New York Region Are Shrinking
A new report out of Rutgers University [PDF] reveals that since 2010, the fringes of the New York region have lost population as the core has grown, a reversal of the sprawling pattern that predominated starting in 1950, when the suburbs grew and the city shrank.
October 2, 2014