plazas
Birdhouse-style 'bee hotels' coming to 7 NYC plazas to help at-risk pollinators
The city’s buzzworthy project provides nutrition and nesting in the form of wooden boxes on poles and bee-friendly vegetation, Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said Thursday.
Hochul & Adams' 'vision' for post-COVID New York gets it almost entirely wrong
No cheers for Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “shared vision” for a post-COVID-19 New York City, which they touted at an Association for a Better New York event this...
This NYC neighborhood is going car-free forever after test-run
The streets of Manhattan's touristy Meatpacking District are going car-free forever after Mayor Bill de Blasio closed them and dozens of others to regular car traffic during the height of...
Junkies again flock to reopened 32nd Street pedestrian plaza
If you build it, they will slum. Like the swallows to Capistrano, junkies are again flocking to West 32nd Street near Penn Station now that the city Department of Transportation...
City will expand 'shared streets' into Midtown
A Midtown street is slowly morphing into a pedestrian plaza. The city plans to turn East 43rd Street between Lexington and Third avenues into one of its new "shared streets,"...
Fisher Brothers' office building is getting a $65M upgrade
A new front porch is coming to 1345 Sixth Ave. A $65 million upgrade of the public space, lobby and infrastructure at Fisher Brothers’ office tower includes this redesign of...
Free Water Street! City's 'public space' rules blight Downtown
Downtown Manhattan faces a critical turning point: The City Council can vote to make the district’s eastern slice as vibrant and appealing as the rest of the resurgent area. Or,...