Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets

The service entrance leads to a supposedly car-free 78th Street with an in-the-works pedestrian plaza and park. Photo by Clarence Eckerson.

The City Might Give Up Its Plan to Ban Cars On One Jackson Heights Street

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 21, 2019 | 19 Comments

The city may surrender a years-in-the making plan to transform a Jackson Heights street into a pedestrian friendly car-free plaza because of a well-connected, wait for it, car dealership!

Cars would not be able to exit the Brooklyn Bridge at the span's end, but would have to take their damn congestion elsewhere. Meanwhile, pedestrians and cyclists would get a huge boost. Photo: 2018 Massengale & Co LLC, rendering by Gabrielle Stroik Johnson.

Group Calls for Amsterdaming Most of Lower Manhattan

By Ben Verde | Mar 19, 2019 | 7 Comments

Crowded streets in Lower Manhattan must give more space to throngs of tourists and other pedestrians with new designs that would bring motorists to a crawl, says a neighborhood group.

As Other Cities Lead on Street Safety, de Blasio Hits the Snooze Button

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 16, 2018 | 13 Comments

Madrid, like London before it, leads the way.

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Barcelona’s Superblocks: Change the Grid, Change Your Neighborhood

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 7, 2018

Without dangerous, noisy car traffic overrunning the streets, superblocks are full of life.

The final Summer Streets of 2013 is tomorrow. Photo: ##http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycstreets/6076947780/##NYC DOT##

Don’t Forget That “Summer Streets” Starts Saturday

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 3, 2018 | 9 Comments

Oh, but wouldn't it be great if Manhattan was always car-free?

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Madrid Moves to Boot Car Traffic Out of Its City Center

By Angie Schmitt | May 25, 2018

A major city center without cars? Madrid is going to come close sometime in the next year, says the administration of Mayor Manuela Carmena.

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