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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 value and its [...] 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 large [...] 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 harbored [...]
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 include retail, housing [...]
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 over the MTA’s [...] 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the Atlantic Yards project would overwhelm surrounding neighborhoods, further clog already overburdened streets, create outdated superblocks that deaden street life, overtax public transit, streets, water and [...]
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 “tear-down” of the [...] L-R: New Haven’s Oak Street neighborhood in the 1950s, the area in the 1970s after the construction of the Route 34 Connector, and today. The negative impacts of postwar urban renewal — wanton highway construction, residential displacement, social fragmentation — are still felt in cities throughout America. New Haven, the recipient of more per capita [...] Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi spent much of yesterday’s State of the County address discussing government consolidation and property tax relief, but also talked at length about responsible growth, calling for increased investment in downtowns that would attract new businesses and stem the exodus of young people from Long Island. This “New Suburbia” concept has [...] Last night Cooper Union’s Great Hall played host to the five developers and architectural teams bidding for the rights to build over the MTA’s Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan (The five groups are Extell, The Related Companies, Durst/Vornado, Brookfield, and Tishman Speyer/Morgan Stanley). The development has huge ramifications for the [...] |
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