Like many other U.S. cities that have experienced significant industrial decline, high rates of poverty and racial and ethnic segregation, Camden is often presented as a virtual “lost cause.” Negative coverage of the city has only intensified since it was forced to lay off nearly half of its police officers and a third of its firefighters [...]
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The area targeted for development in New Haven. Two highway removal projects in the region got a boost of federal funds today. USDOT announced that New Haven’s Route 34 and the South Bronx’s Sheridan Expressway will receive $16 million and $1.5 million respectively to advance plans to convert these underutilized highway corridors into [...] Reworked Newark plans Taking to the streets with cameras and imagination, 45 Newark high school interns participated in a two-day exercise with TSTC to re-envision downtown Newark as a “great place” for residents and visitors. The exercise is a result of an on-going partnership with the Greater Newark Conservancy’s Newark Youth Leadership Project. [...] Property values are higher in areas where it's easy to walk to shops and schools. Walkable neighborhoods translate directly into higher home prices, according to a new report from the business group CEOs for Cities. The researchers studied real estate listings in 15 metropolitan areas and found a positive relationship between a home’s [...] Last Thursday, The Unified Community Civic Association hosted a public information session on a proposed FedEx distribution center in Astoria, Queens. The 255,000 square foot project is the source of serious consternation in the neighborhood, where residents fear hundreds of new trucks will flood the streets. The lot in question is part of the [...] In the last couple of years, New York City Mayor Bloomberg has done an impressive job in creating a vision of New York as a model of a sustainable city, even as it develops. And yet, even as the Bloomberg administration rolls out new pedestrian, bicycle, and transit projects seemingly every week, it has [...]
The Lighthouse offers a compelling vision for Long Island, but it’s the details — like its transit plan and traffic impacts — that will determine whether it succeeds. (Image: Lighthouse Development Group) The second of two scoping hearings concerning the “Lighthouse of Long Island” development, a 150-acre mixed-use project that will [...]
Despite a new Far West Side development deal, prospects for saving the MTA’s current capital plan still seem as barren as the Hudson Yards (Image via Hudson Yards Development Corporation). Last week, developer Tishman Speyer backed out of a deal to develop a mega-complex of offices, residential units, and park space [...] Brooklyn Speaks, of which Tri-State is a member, is co-hosting a rally to stop the demolition of the proposed Altantic Yards project. From the brooklynspeaks.org website: “As originally proposed, the Atlantic Yards project would overwhelm surrounding neighborhoods, further clog already overburdened streets, create outdated superblocks that deaden street life, overtax public transit, streets, water [...]
A slide shows one City of New Haven vision for its post-Route 34 future. On Wednesday, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the New Haven Urban Design League hosted a public event, attended by approximately 150 people, in order to raise awareness of and increase support for the [...] |
 
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