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Streets
getting around
Nov. 8, 2023
Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer
“Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking the city to go after the same group of people.”
By
Clio Chang
environment
Sept. 29, 2023
Scenes From a Flooded New York
Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
By
Curbed Staff
getting around
July 18, 2023
A Makeover for Third Avenue
More bike and bus lanes on the Upper East Side. It’s better!
By
Christopher Bonanos
streets
Feb. 16, 2023
New York City Finally Has a Public-Realm Czar
Ya-Ting Liu, a former transit advocate, will work on projects like Open Restaurants and the pedestrianization of Fifth Avenue.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Jan. 27, 2023
Clearing Vendors From the Brooklyn Bridge Won’t Solve Its Overcrowding Problem
The bridge deserves a more comprehensive plan.
By
Diana Budds
q&a
Dec. 23, 2022
The Would-Be Salt Kings of New York City
Talking to Joe Bucci Jr. and Joe Bucci Sr.
As told to
Adriane Quinlan
street view
Dec. 21, 2022
Walkable City
’s Jeff Speck Knows There Are Worse Things Than Crawling Traffic
Ten years on, he reflects on pipe dreams turned real (like California’s ADU boom) and not (like truly safe streets).
By
Justin Davidson
streeteries
Oct. 5, 2022
We’re Getting Closer to Permanent Outdoor Dining
The State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit that threatened the program.
By
Diana Budds
hot garbage
Sept. 1, 2022
It’s Time to End Our ‘Rat Nutrition’ Program
The case for containerized trash.
By
Diana Budds
design edit
Aug. 26, 2022
Psychosexual Furniture, Raf Simons’s Shaker Home Goods, and More Finds
Plus a new documentary on the global fight for safe streets.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Aug. 4, 2022
Eastern Parkway Was Never Meant to Be a Highway
The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.
By
Diana Budds
design edit
July 15, 2022
Tables Inspired by Pasta, Hudson Square’s Walkable Upgrade, and More Finds
Plus new stormwater flood maps for New York.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Jan. 19, 2022
New York City Is Finally Getting Raised Crosswalks
They serve the dual purpose of slowing down drivers and making pedestrians more visible.
By
Caroline Spivack
streeteries
Dec. 27, 2021
The Era of Experimental Streeteries May Soon Be Over
Brace yourself for blandmarks.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Nov. 1, 2021
A Very ‘What Is New York’ Halloween
The quirky Instagram account documented killer clown bus drivers, paddle-boarding witches, and more.
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Sept. 23, 2021
The Street Fight Is Back
Everybody wants a piece of your block, and it’s going to take a lot more than planters and metal barricades to resolve who gets what.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Sept. 17, 2021
I Wish I Liked the New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane More
A hard-won symbolic victory that’s a baby step.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Sept. 14, 2021
We’re Falling Short on Even the Simplest Fix for Storm Flooding
Plugged-up drains should be the most straightforward problem to solve, and the city can’t keep up.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Aug. 17, 2021
The Renegade Skate-Ramp Builders of New York
Who is pouring concrete under the L.I.E.?
By
Daniel Karel
streets
Aug. 11, 2021
A Napping Corner in Hudson Square (That’s Also a Playscape and Lunch Spot)
This is the curbside architecture New York City needs.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Aug. 5, 2021
New York’s Stoopers Have a New Enemy
“If I had to imagine the Dr. Evil of the stooping community, this is it.”
By
Caroline Spivack
getting around
June 9, 2021
Helmet Laws Are Not What New York City Cyclists Need Right Now
Elected officials keep proposing more rules for bicycles and scooters instead of fixing streets.
By
Alissa Walker
streets
Apr. 30, 2021
A Driver Destroyed Another Streetery, and This Time Someone Died
The crash killed a 37-year-old delivery worker.
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Apr. 7, 2021
Volunteers Are Funding Open Streets Programs. Why Isn’t the City?
Locals and donors are doing the day-to-day work of making it happen.
By
Caroline Spivack
anatomy of a streetery
Feb. 2, 2021
GRT Architects Designs Streeteries That Can Outlast the Pandemic
Outdoor dining spaces at Cote, Don Angie, and Quality Eats demonstrate how the firm is experimenting.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Jan. 26, 2021
What Does Polly Trottenberg’s NYC DOT Tell Us About What She’ll Do in D.C.?
Trottenberg moved the needle forward on street safety, but some say she could have done more.
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Dec. 31, 2020
New York Is Bringing Up the Absolute Rear on Trash Pickup
A new pilot program will start collecting trash just like every other city already does.
By
Alissa Walker
streets
Dec. 17, 2020
Anatomy of a Streetery: Guevara’s
It’s Cuban-inspired and stands solidly on the corner of Clifton and Grand.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Dec. 3, 2020
From Prada Pumps to Sacks of Rice: It’s All Free at These New Brooklyn Stores
“We had a shelf of cereal, and then four black leather BDSM harnesses.”
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Nov. 20, 2020
Should Parking Snitches Get Riches?
A new bill would give New Yorkers a 25 percent cut of fines for tattling on illegally parked cars.
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Nov. 19, 2020
Anatomy of a Streetery: Rangoon
It’s kinetic and inspired by Burmese design.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Nov. 11, 2020
Perking Up the Plywood: Artists Get Their Hands on the City’s Streeteries
From mirror mosaics to sprawling murals.
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Oct. 23, 2020
Stoop-to-Stoop: A Week of Curbside Finds From a Stooping Pro
“I was looking for a cup of coffee, but instead stumbled upon this really nice desk.”
By
Caroline Spivack
streets
Oct. 15, 2020
This Spring, We All Drove Much Less. Yet Traffic Deaths Went Up. Why?
The lure of the open street.
By
Alissa Walker