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First up, some news and commentary: the Gowanus rezoning is on hold; the shovel-ready tunnel link that will double the number of Penn Station's Jersey commuters proves once again that much stimulus thinking is short-sighted; and Omnibus fan and fellow cinephile Leni Schwendinger discusses, with a leading…
08 21 09 • by Urban Omnibus • communication, data visualization, grand concourse, lighting, news, planning, roundup, technology, video
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While it’s exciting that Broadway’s redesign is busy shouting to New York City what was whispered to Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come,” what’s more thrilling from a transportation perspective is that the redesign might also be convincing people of the inverse: If you take it away…
New York City's plan to close Times Square to vehicles looks like a triumph. The chaise-lounges [or chaises-longues, depending on whom you ask - Ed.] the city dropped at the Crossroads of the World on May 24th have stayed popular throughout the week, like day-glo brigadiers in a…
05 28 09 • by Alec Appelbaum • atlantic yards, broadway, manhattan, move, opinion, planning, public space, street, transit
Last Wednesday night NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute resounded with several starkly different visions of Coney Island’s future in advance of the city planning public hearing on its rezoning on May 6th. Author and professor of journalism Suketu Mehta, who convened the symposium, invited representatives of New York City’s…
05 05 09 • by Cassim Shepard • brooklyn, community engagement, coney island, planning, play, real estate, review
Mayor Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan have created quite a lot of buzz today with their announcement of the pilot program “Green Light for Midtown.” The idea is that both automobile traffic flow and pedestrian safety (and sanity) can be improved, and public and green space can be increased, through two…
02 26 09 • by Varick Shute • infrastructure, manhattan, move, planning, public space, street, transit
