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Showing posts with label staten island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label staten island. Show all posts
Thursday, April 7, 2016

What are your #SightsOfSI?

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Tourists don't know where to go when they get off the Staten Island Ferry, so let's make some posters for them! Here's one I m...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Visit Saint George!

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Staten Island is home to beautiful parks, lovely architecture, tasty restaurants and fascinating museums. As Joby Jacob and I recently docu...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Saint George's Hidden Treasures

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The AIA Guide says there are a bunch that we didn't get to. See this album in Google Photos.
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Visit Staten Island!

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Staten Island offers lovely architecture, beautiful parks and fascinating museums. Thousands of tourists set foot on the island on warm sun...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Along the Chemical Coast to Staten Island

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People seem to be captivated by the unused stretch of the Staten Island Railroad along the North Shore of the island. It makes sense to do ...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Fifth Borough?

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On my post about Staten Island, chrismealy commented that we could trade it for Bergen Neck, the peninsula in New Jersey just north of it. ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Staten Island and our goals

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This summer I went to Staten Island for the first time in several years. There are some things I like about it, but I don't go there ve...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Gonna get fooled again, again?

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Three of the reasons that are most commonly cited for rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge are the current bridge's narrow lanes, no shoulde...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Slaying the parking dragon

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Streetsblog is reporting that the New York City Economic Development Corporation is trying to build a "vibrant downtown" next to t...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

From Staten Island to 34th Street

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Commenter and occasional contributor George K has pointed out something that the Department of Transportation's bus planners seem to hav...
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Monday, July 5, 2010

The Republican strategy

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Back in March, Streetsblog reported that of the $143 million that the State Legislature cut from the MTA budget last year, $118 million was...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Public and private on the Goethals Bridge

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Image: Port Authority As I wrote before , our government plans to spend over $2.4 billion in road projects over the next several years: $500...
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Skimming the cream off the poached siphons

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Some anti-van activists, like Roe Daraio and the Queens Crapper argue that private jitneys "have long poached fares" from the MT...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

But what does Jay Walder think?

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Your Cap'n can be an arrogant sumbitch, but I'm not so arrogant that I believe I'm the first one to think of everything. And wit...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Staten Island: Why light?

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Staten Island has a rail line, but it used to have three. In addition, the Bayonne Bridge was built to handle light rail, a capacity that h...
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