Posts tagged "new york"

Diagonal streets closing for car free plazas

Both New York and San Francisco, there are streets closing to create new pedestrian plazas. New York has begun closing parts of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square on weekends to create additional pedestrian space in these busy areas. San Francisco recently closed part of 17th Street at Market in the Castro as a [...]

curious to see how this would look in sf . . .

Even though it’s sort of Web 1.0, I’m glad someone is collecting these data. The New York maps are kind of boring, really, and more or less confirm what most people already know: there’s a lot going on there, all over, all the time. LA is more interesting, and because event venues are more spread [...]

san francisco, new york style

Looks like we’re finally earning out keep as the capital of the Left Coast. New York has one-upped us for too long on reappropriating unused asphalt (thanks to that pesky Janette Sadik-Khan), but San Francisco just unveiled plans for its first street pedstrianization project, at the corner of 17th and Market. The opinion among my [...]