Velmanette Montgomery 9th Street Letter
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- Fire box down
- At some point in the last day or so, some driver apparently drove right up onto the new sidewalk extension at the corner of Bergen and Smith in Brooklyn. They hit and knocked down the fire signal box that had been installed there.
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From: sgoodyear
March 4, 2010
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The Next New York: How NYC Can Grow as a Walkable City
In the last eight years, Amanda Burden's Department of City Planning has rezoned 20 percent of New York along relatively transit-oriented lines, while simultaneously promoting quasi-suburban projects at prominent sites and maintaining parking minimums that erode the pedestrian environment. In other words, the planning department is promoting growth in the right places, but enabling the wrong kind of development. So in the next four years, will New York's planners adopt more sustainable practices or continue the status quo?
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- Students Paint the Pavement in Brooklyn
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