News from the past week:
A Brooklyn of Wealth and Needs Gets a Major Charity All Its Own (New York Times)
Walking the Dog to Draw Attention to a Cause (City Room)
Dreaming of Brooklyn: Development Reconsidered (City Limits)
Cool Roofs for the City and the Country (New York Future Initiative)
Interview with Aaron Naparstek: Why ride a bike in [...]
Founded in 2007 and run entirely by volunteers, the Street Memorial Project honors cyclists and pedestrians that have been killed on New York City’s streets. According to the website, the Project was inspired by similar groups in Pittsburgh and St. Louis, and continues the work of many groups and volunteers who have created similar memorials [...]
A few years ago, Governors Island was a kind of mysterious off-limits outpost off the tip of Manhattan. I remember when I was still new to New York looking out from the Manhattan Bridge and seeing this landmass and wondering if I was looking at Staten Island, Brooklyn, or New Jersey.
That mystery began to [...]
Transportation Alternatives, the city’s biggest bicycle advocacy group, has been promoting a new “street code” for cyclists, encouraging them to heed by certain rules in order to make biking a better experience for everyone. Here’s their motivation:
We know – and studies show – that more bicyclists make for safer cycling, and safer cycling will encourage [...]
If you think the High Line is cool, check out the plans for the new Queens Plaza. From Urban Omnibus:
The Queens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Landscape Improvement Project transforms the tangle of urban infrastructure cutting through Long Island City from a harsh, disorienting industrial maze into a lush, navigable landscape, a gateway to Long Island [...]
News from the past week:
Sikh Students Speak Out: “We Want Safe Schools Now!” (RaceWire)
Talking Trees on the Concourse (Mount Hope Monitor)
Push to Close Schools on Muslim Holy Days Gains Momentum (Mount Hope Monitor)
When ‘Slumming’ Was the Thing to Do (City Room)
Summer Brings a Wave of Homeless Families (New York Times)
Tour galore for 1,000-plus bicyclists (Daily [...]
To enjoy the summer weather (finally!), you’ll have plenty of opportunities to wander, bike, and play in the streets without having to worry about those pesky automobiles:
Summer Streets is happening again this year, connecting Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge for three Saturdays in August.
Weekend Walks is an expansion of the Summer Streets program into [...]
May is Bike Month NYC (you may have noticed the 30,000 people kicking it off by cycling through your borough in the pouring rain last weekend), and Transportation Alternatives and the Department of Transportation have teamed up to offer a series of exciting events—the most exciting of which, of course, involve getting free breakfast or [...]
Part of the delight of living in New York City is that you could potentially be hit by not only falling cranes or cars but also our speedy bike messengers. Or so you might think. A number of nonprofit organizations exist in New York that are working to protect, defend, and change the [...]
We hope this ingenious idea for a laser projected bike lane comes to fruition someday soon. Dreamed up by Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude, it would allow cyclists to create a virtual safety zone around their bike as they ride.
Not only could this idea potentially make city biking a safer mode of transportation, [...]
