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Parking it in Midtown
Today is International Park(ing) Day. Also known as a "parking squat," Park(ing) is a quasi-legal reclamation of urban street space in which a metered, curbside parking spaces are transformed into urban parkland complete with sod, benches, trees and human beings. Here is how Park(ing) Day is being celebrated this morning in Midtown Manhattan on 8th Avenue near 30th Street:
September 21, 2006
Dead Ball
Whatever you think of the idea of a highrise cluster in Downtown Brooklyn, you have to worry that the sponsors of the Atlantic Yards project suggest that creating jobs and housing justifies the kind of planning that discourages street life. Among the lowlights of the marathon August 23 "public hearing" on the draft Environmental Impact Statement covering the Atlantic Yards, consider these signs:
August 29, 2006
“Atlantic Yards” Public Hearing
Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.New York City Technical College (Klitgord Auditorium)285 Jay Street, Brooklyn
August 23, 2006
Having it Both Ways in the “Atlantic Yards” DEIS
Combing through the massive Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the "Atlantic Yards" project in Brooklyn, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has found at least four instances of the strange, Hamlet-like soliloquy, exemplified below.
August 14, 2006
New York Magazine on the “Atlantic Yards” Project
For a few years now, the city's media elite has studiously avoided serious, honest coverage of Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. That is why it is so refreshing to see that this week's New York magazine is running the single best story on the mega-development project that I have yet seen in any mainstream press. It's by political reporter Chris Smith and it is a must-read.
August 7, 2006
Community Board Forums on “Atlantic Yards”
Thursday, August 3, 6 - 8 pmThree separate locations. See below.
August 3, 2006
Fewer Seats But More Cars at Yankee Stadium
Anybody else catch the Discovery Channel's 2-hour special on global warming on Sunday night? It recapped the many problems we can expect to see from global warming: potential death for millions of people, millions more forced to move as coastal cities are permanently flooded, extinction for many species of plants and animals, more frequent severe weather events like forest fires, hurricanes and tornadoes, and positive feedback loops that reinforce the warming. It all would sort of a change life as we've come to know it - for the worse. Complete transformation of the planet: Every other issue sort of pales in comparison, and it makes one wonder, how can we be concerned about anything else?
July 18, 2006
Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking
Continuing to ask the questions that don't seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report's Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner's massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
June 29, 2006