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City Unveils Design for Long-Decrepit East Harlem Greenway
Nearly two dozen blocks of crumbling greenway along the Harlem River are slated for a revamp in 2025.
April 12, 2024
Smoke-Belching Cruise Ships Are Welcome in NYC For Another 11 Years!
Officials hailed shore power in 2009, but ships won't have to be fully equipped for it until 2035.
January 18, 2024
‘Blue Highway’ Blues: A Maritime Freight Pier is Coming to Downtown Heliport … By 2029
It's progress, but does it really take five years to build a barge — especially one that's been in talks for five years already?
November 14, 2023
The Fifth Ave. Redesign is Going on Five Years Delayed
Mayor Adams on Monday announced yet another round of community engagement and more "visioning" processes for the long-awaited redesign of Fifth Avenue — a process that comes after the previous administration spent two years doing just that.
November 7, 2023
Cruise Ships Saddle Red Hook with Traffic ‘Nightmare,’ Toxic Fumes
Red Hook is drowning in traffic and smog from cruise ships Mayor Adams has touted as a "boost" to the economy.
September 21, 2023
Fifth Time’s the Charm? Advocates Wary of City’s Latest Talk of Redesigning the Ritzy Avenue
More than two years since the city first proposed a redesign of Fifth Avenue that included a car-free busway, Mayor Adams on Sunday announced a “major new visioning process to reimagine” the world-famous Manhattan corridor with improved pedestrian and cycling space, and expanded sidewalks. Huh.
December 20, 2022
City to Install Protected Bike Lane Beneath Inwood’s Elevated Subway — in 2027
Well, here's one reason to hope Mayor Adams gets a second term.
November 17, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: City to Launch Long-Overdue Traffic Study for Congested DUMBO
Any objective study would show what we all know to be true: that cars are the true culprit.
November 14, 2022
The Blue Highway: City EDC Takes a Major Step Forward for Cleaner Freight
To paraphrase the old song: Four loaded pallets of beer on the boat, four loaded pallets of beer — if somebody somewhere would just build a pier ... more and more pallets of beer on the boat.
October 27, 2022
