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The great thing about getting married in a city is everyone can walk from the wedding to the reception.
The NYC Parks Department reclaiming many of their city-owned parcels which they've turned-over to private groups to directly operate new fully-accessible parks is the type of urban socialism I could fully get behind.
Wish I could travel back in time before NYC legalized on-street parking, because these charming blocks must've been 😍AMAZING😍 before all of the stored motor vehicles mucked up the views.
The West 132nd Street Garden would've obviously been a cool place to hangout this autumnal afternoon. But despite this property being owned by the City there won't be any more access for locals until next year.
Kind of wish this was directly operated by @NYCParks to be honest.
I hate how near exclusive focus on the Colonial & Revolutionary War eras means other periods of Philadelphia's amazing history are often overlooked.
As a center of textile & apparel manufacturing Philly had a tremendous impact on American fashion, but legacy is nearly forgotten.
I love that the new mayor is planning to turn the so-called Elisabeth Street Garden into deeply affordable senior housing and new green space, but I'm worried the plans for the project are a little out of scale with the neighborhood.
This whole story is amazing and worth a full read. And the graphics team did an spectacular job too.
But mostly I'm wondering if anyone was brave enough to point out how silly it is to build a new rail line with such crazy close stop spacing?
So many of the most iconic American city parks are surrounded by skyscrapers. Yet somehow NIMBYs are occasionally able to convince our elected officials that tall parks ruin these shared public spaces.
In reality we need MORE parking oriented development.
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Wow, lots of Triboro fans on this post!
When we first came up with an outerborough rail option, RPA imagined it possibly going even further than our 2017 proposal.
Since its inception, the idea has shifted quite a bit 🧵🧵🧵
Why were there 3 separate locked up parks on one block of 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village this afternoon??
I absolutely LOVE a pocket park, so it's pretty maddening to be locked out of a couple of them on a pleasant afternoon.
American transportation planners will look you dead in the eye and tell you there's a bike lane in this photo:
Do the robot drivers ever enter an intersection even when they have NO chance of getting all the way through without obstructing crosswalks?
Because human drivers in NYC do that all of the time and it makes walking around the city so much more dangerous and u comfortable.
Honestly Mayor Adams backtracking on his commitment to build affordable housing here is part of why he lost my general election vote.
I can't wait until Mayor Mamdani turns this fenced off stretch of Mott Street into affordable senior housing.
The 7,600 square feet of high-quality publicly-accessible open space will also be cool, even if there are already a couple of nice parks around and near Nolita.
"Park acres per 1,000 residents" is such a horrible metric. Urban parks departments should drop it.
There are dozens of seniors in Dr. Sun Yat-sen Plaza this afternoon (and there always are).
This pocket of Columbus Park is obviously pulling way above its meager square footage!
Trump can claim all he wants that he beat inflation, but a haircut at this Chinatown barbershop was only $7 not too long ago:
Called 911 for EMTs for a homeless guy (his pants were off and it's starting to get cold) and then I noticed he still had a recent medical wristband on.
What are we even doing here? Cycling him back to the street instead of long-term hospitalization is just a death sentence.
Despite rhetoric from some city councilmembers, they'll still definitely have a voice in the approval process for many developments in NYC.
I just hope they'll consider local results on Props 2-5 before making any assumptions about how hostile to new housing voters actually are.
