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Showing posts with label old nyc streets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old nyc streets. Show all posts
Monday, August 6, 2018

Can we make the Central Park "drives" two way again now?

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They say Central Park is now car-free. The other day I passed five construction trucks, three random cars and four golf carts, one of which...
Monday, January 18, 2016

We need to stop converting streets to one-way

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New York is famous for its livable streets revolution, where Janette Sadik-Khan, with the backing of Mayor Bloomberg, turned the city Depart...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

The return of the mixed-traffic streetcar

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I wrote before that mixed-traffic streetcars no longer make sense in this country, because whenever a corridor has enough walkable destinati...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Ten things Trottenberg can do for pedestrians

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Back in 2009, when Janette Sadik-Khan had only been New York City Transportation Commissioner for a year, I offered five things that she co...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tweaking congestion

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A bunch of people liked my post last week about the 85th Percentile Rule, in which I reformulated the rule to incorporate pedestrian and cy...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Why Fifth Avenue is so great

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When I first moved back to New York City in my early twenties I was living with my dad on the Upper West Side. I had a friend living on the ...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Great Curbside Land Grab of 1947-1952

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In previous posts I've talked about how it was illegal to park your car overnight in New York City in the 1940s, how car ownership got ...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How not to deal with parking moochers

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Let's say that you live by yourself in a two-bedroom apartment. Your friend's brother is coming to town to look for a job, and your...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

PIty for the rich and fake populism in 1940s New York

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You may not have heard this particular story before, but it'll sound awfully familiar. That's because the story of the Great Curbsid...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The right to free parking in 1940s New York

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As I wrote on Sunday , around 1947 the ban on overnight curbside car storage became untenable. The New York Times reported that there were ...
Monday, September 10, 2012

How the overnight parking ban broke down

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Okay, so I promised you the story of how overnight curbside parking became legal in New York City, as reported in the archives of the New Y...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

When overnight curbside parking was illegal

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There's a quote that's been floating around the net for a few weeks: Manhattan banned overnight curb parking until the 1940s. Ed Gla...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

A superficial charm

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The guest author for tonight's post is Robert Moses, Chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. I have access to the New Y...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Shit we can't keep in the street

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As I wrote on Sunday , if the sidewalks of Manhattan (and the rest of New York) seem crowded, it's no accident. They are now playing ho...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Sidewalk encroachments and encumbrances

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Last week I discussed some of the changes that had happened to turn New York City's streets from common space where children could play...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

There's no magic bullet for safer streets

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I would like to find the one magic bullet that would make our streets safe again. I would love it if my kid could play in the street the wa...
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