Grand Central Terminal: the commemorative MetroCard.
want! any NYC followers can send one to me??!
(via themovinglife)
The New York Times has published an interactive biking map of NYC where you can leave comments about your favorite routes around town. If you ride a bike (like we do) this should be especially helpful.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
An alternate title for “Gut Renovation,” Su Friedrich’s cranky, sarcastic documentary polemic about the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood, might be “The Rape of Williamsburg.” Ms. Friedrich, an independent filmmaker, moved there in 1989 when it was an artists’ haven and a multiethnic, working-class neighborhood with a vibrant street life. After the City Council passed a rezoning ordinance in 2005, an area 6 blocks wide and 17 blocks long became the site of a frantic real estate boom.
—nytimes review, 05.03.13.
playing @the new parkway (oakland) on sun. 16.06 and @the rio (santa cruz) on sun. 23.06. tickets. 12th annual SF DocFest (calendar).
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sfbike golden wheel awards. hotel whitcomb, 20.06.13. 18:30-21:00
too bad these award events are targeted to city officials, sponsors, etc. and not to the student demographic—$125 better get me into a two-day music festival with lasers, top sound systems, and multiple world-class headliners :P
Color Film of the Streets & People of New York City in 1939
The culmination of intense study, planning, and public outreach, the bike-share launch marks the birth of a new transit network. “It’s a rare thing to see a brand new transportation system become unveiled before our eyes,” said Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. “We have the A Train, and the New York City cab, and the Staten Island Ferry, and now Citi Bike joins the ranks of the transportation icon family in New York City.”
…At the time Fillin-Yeh wrote a bike-share feasibility study for the Department of City Planning in 2009, the major systems were in Paris, Barcelona, and Montreal, which had just launched with the solar-powered stations that NYC would later adopt. “We looked at those as a model of how far stations were placed apart,” she said, describing how the city determined the rough outlines of the initial service area and distribution of the bikes. “Then we started mapping that out and took a look at where are businesses in the city, where are hotels in the city, where are major institutions in the city, where are parks — and built all that into a model based off that, population density, workforce density, and came to those numbers.”
Today New Yorkers have a viable new transit network thanks to the foresight of the bike-share team and an administration that was not deterred by the scale of the undertaking or the setbacks that happened along the way. After extensive planning and station siting meetings, unforeseen software glitches and a potentially devastating hurricane strike, New York City bike-share is in motion.
streetsblog, 27.05.13.
Janette Sadik-Khan!!! she’s like major hero/celebrity to me! (lol transportation planning)
and that paragraph, what DOT bike-share program director Kate Fillin-Yeh did, that’s the kind of stuff I wanna do!
those maps look really good.
way better than the maps provided by denver’s bcycle bikeshare system. there, I had to keep a tab open on my smartphone at the bcycle website to find where the stations are, and then i had to go to google maps with the bicycling layer on to find directions. too much work!
THIS (above) is great. the maps include bike lanes (in green) in addition to the bikeshare stations, AND it’s placed closer to my eye level. (the denver map at the bcycle stations covered the whole city, and i needed to look at the northern half, but it was too high up for petite me.. x__x;;;;;)
(Source: peoplelookingatcitibike)
New York Street Vendors Displaced by Bike-Share Want Their Voices Heard
As the racks for the Citibike bike-share program have been installed around New York in recent weeks, New Yorkers have become aware of their public spaces in a whole new way.
..there’s one rack that is causing a different kind of problem, and revealing some deeper cracks on the contested sidewalks of New York. On Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan, outside an office building at 140 Broadway, five food carts employing fifteen people have been displaced by a rack installed on the sidewalk there.
The Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center, an advocacy group that claims nearly 2,000 of the city’s 20,000 mobile vendors as members, says that while five carts might not seem like a lot, the move raises questions about who has the right to use the streets of the city.”
atlanticcities, 22.05.13.
reminds me of the book Sidewalk by Michael Duneier that i read for my urban sociology class. highly recommended, btw.
