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Open Streets and Open Dining – A lot to like, and some health worries
Over the last month the City accelerated it use of street space to help pedestrians keep their distance from each other and restaurants resume their business in a viable way.
Many more streets were open to the residents as “Open Streets” in the City. This gives priority to pedestrians by limiting speed to 5 mph. and […]
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Tagged furniture, parking, Pedestrian safety, sidewalk
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Claim a free tree guard!
Time to claim a tree guard for your favorite tree!
One of the initiatives funded by the 2019 Participatory budget will provide tree guards for newly planted trees. If there are some in your neck of the hood, on the streets and especially on the avenues where the conditions are harsher for the newly planted trees, […]
Join us at Transit Center – Neighborhood Empowerment Project
As usual Open Plans founders are ahead of the game. This new initiative explores how monolithic agencies with many silos could enroll nimble and motivated local people who have a more holistic view of their streets in order to improve their productivity and response time.
This approach was embraced by corporations long ago in order to […]
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Can electronic scooters peacefully co-exist with pedestrians?
CHEKPEDS has learned that Speaker Corey Johnson and Transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez are working on a legislation to ensure the orderly inclusion of electric scooters in the New York Transportation options.
These appliances which look like a children ‘s toy have showed up in various cities and caused consternation with pedestrians as described in this article “What […]
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, Pedestrian safety, Sidewalk, Traffic Justice
Tagged bicycles, furniture, Pedestrian safety, sidewalk, Street Design
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West 37th Street Renaissance
Over 10 years ago CHEKPEDS initiated a 9th Avenue Renaissance project which incorporated over 1,000 input from the community. The resulting suggested various designs for streets.
Fast forward to 2017 , when the recently formed Hudson Yards/Hell’s Kitchen Alliance (HYHK Business Improvement District) initiated a Streetscape Study of its district.
in 2018, HYHK started to implement the plan […]
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, Greening, Pedestrian safety, Sidewalk
Tagged furniture, park-plaza, Pedestrian safety, Street Design
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10th Avenue Bike Lane, Street Seats and Crashmapper
[ March 21, 2018; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Join us at the Manhattan Community Board 4 Transportation Committee to share your comments and opinions on these topics and more..
Manhattan Community Board 4 – Transportation Committee
Wednesday, March 21st, 6:30 p.m.
The Flats, 554 West 53rd Street (10/11)
The meeting will be followed by the first meeting of the ADA Working group .
Posted in CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Events, Pedestrian safety
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Finally more space on the sidewalk
You have all seen them in front of restaurants’ doors in the winter: the large vestibules or storm enclosures that take up 3′ or 4′ of sidewalk . They stay up until April or sometimes during the whole year and they are illegal! Per the code, they cannot extend by more than 18″.
But when it […]
Good Bye 2016… Welcome 2017
2016 ended up as a tough year!
Congestion – Clean Air
The Project to replace the Port Authority Bus Terminal dominated our activity , with townhalls, press conferences, testimonies , killer missives and arm wrestling between our elected officials and the Port. We thought it was ending up on a positive note when the Port Authority Board […]
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Congestion, Greening, Pedestrian safety, Port Authority, Sidewalk
Tagged bicycles, crashes, furniture, NYPD, PANYNJ, park-plaza, Pedestrian safety, safety
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Pedestrian Delight: 40 phone booths will be removed
After years of advocacy ( since 2008!) and with the help of MCB4 District Manager Jesse Bodine and Borough President Brewer and her staff, DoiTT has finally confirmed in writing which phone booths will be removed and NOT be replaced by a LinkNYC installation. See the complete list HERE .
Some of them do not comply […]
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LinkNYC – A work in progress
LinkNYC is the Wi-FI and phone charging system that replaces the phone booths. It is currently installed at 364 locations in Manhattan, mostly on 8th Avenue in our district . The service has been very successful with 700,000 subscribers and 37 million internet sessions in its first year. It provides internet speed about 500 times […]
