Plazas on the Street

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Ben Welle

An article in USA Today describes the new program in New York City to create “street plazas” from pieces or entire lanes of streets. On Broadway, the neon-lit, iconic avenue that slices through Manhattan, city officials have transformed two traffic lanes between Times Square and Herald Square into pedestrian plazas where folks can sit at [...]

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Build Parks, See Investment

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Ben Welle

There’s more evidence of parks positive affect on property values from New York City. A new report issued today by the Friends of Hudson River Park found that the $75 million the public invested in a section of the park in Greenwich Village sprouted into an additional $200 million in property values in a two-block [...]

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