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A Year After Eric Ng’s Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed
This piece was written by Transportation Alternatives:
January 4, 2008
Greenway Killer is Sentenced 3½ to 10½ Years
Portraits of cyclists killed on the streets of New York, Eric Ng, Keith Powell, Andre Anderson, and Carl Nacht by artist Christopher Cardinale.
January 4, 2008
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Comes to Life
The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, a citizen-driven project that began with a handful of insane visionaries picking up trash and planting flowers beside a BQE off-ramp, is taking shape on Columbia Street.
December 21, 2007
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas?
The Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo) and the Design Trust for Public Space are launching an "Ideas Competition" called Reinventing Grand Army Plaza. Building on GAPCo's on-going effort to re-envision this historic Brooklyn crossroads, the Ideas Competition will solicit new, creative proposals for Grand Army Plaza's re-design. Top submissions will be exhibited in the summer of 2008 at the Brooklyn Public Library or the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
December 13, 2007
New Grand Army Plaza Concept is “Brilliantly Obvious”
In the most recent issue of the Architect's Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief William Menking has some very enthusiastic things to say about the Grand Army Plaza Coalition's project, Rethinking Grand Army Plaza (download the proposal here) which was recently awarded a 2007-2008 Design Trust fellowship. Menking writes:
December 11, 2007
Silver Stalls Plan to Reduce Garbage Truck Traffic
Under the city's proposed waste management plan, more trash would be hauled by trains and barges.
October 22, 2007
Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger
The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you're the Yankees.
October 3, 2007
DOT Minds the GAP
With city workers pouring concrete in the background (and StreetFilms' cameras rolling), New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced pedestrian and cyclist improvements for Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza yesterday. The plan calls for 11,000 square feet of new, landscaped pedestrian islands, a separated bike path, new crosswalks and pedestrian signals.
October 2, 2007