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SEE IT: Streets Can Be So Much More than Car Sewers
Vital City asked architects and designers to re-envision concrete and pavement without cars. The results were awesome.
June 30, 2023
Eyes on the Street: NYC Keeps Rolling Out the Bioswales in Queens
It's fair to say that I've been geeking out over streetscape improvements in NYC that incorporate plantings to manage stormwater runoff (here, here, and here). These sidewalk expansions are popping up all over the place near my apartment in Jackson Heights.
September 4, 2013
Community Boards Set to Review Livable Streets Proposals
Over the next week or so, community boards in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn will take up planned livable streets projects, as described below.
April 1, 2008
Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood
Broadway at Dyckman/200th Street and Riverside Drive: a confusing, foreboding free-for-all
February 15, 2008
Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers
The Greenstreet at 110th and Amsterdam helps keep sewage out of city rivers and features a beefed-up, traffic-calming "blockbuster."
February 14, 2008