mikelydon.bsky.social
Co-Founder @ Street Plans | Co-Author #TacticalUrbanism, Smart Growth Manual, Streets for Pandemic Response + Recovery | Board Member @ Congress for New Urbanism | Creator Open_Streets Project | Léo + Luca’s dad | 📍 Brooklyn, NY 🚲 🚶 🚌 🌆
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I can’t speak to NZ’s enforcement regime but here in NYC - laws or no laws against pool depths - NYPD is not rolling up with a tape measure to bust a family for cooling off during a heatwave. 😂
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Great news!
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Like, actually a PBL on Court? Didn’t know DOT put that on the table…
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Thanks to the many people who helped get this one over the finish line…City of Orange, Equitable Cities, thirdspacepARTners, Gina Rivas (artist) and many volunteers!
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I-195
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💯
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Gowanus, Brooklyn. Image taken from the 3rd Street Bridge.
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You would certainly know the details more than I! But why not develop increased density from the canal back towards the 4th Ave lots? I know height doesn’t = unit density but generally 20+ story buildings are on the canal and 8-16 on 4th Ave. Regardless, great to see housing built here 👍🏻 👏
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Best practice would be to step the density up from waterfront sites, peaking at transit locations, which confers more views and more value to more people distributed throughout the neighborhood. And no, I don’t consider @nycferry.bsky.social a “mass” transit when CitiBike serves 9x the # of people.
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There is plenty to critique but this is a critical addition of housing capacity in a massively desirable area. If I had to name one issue though, many recent NYC waterfront rezonings oddly cluster the most density the furthest from transit (Williamsburg, Hudson Yards, Hunters Point etc)
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NY state and NYC metro fares very well against the US average bit greatly skewed by housing production in NYC, which is largely very low or low VMT.
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I’ve been thinking the same for weeks…
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We moved from Connecticut to NYC - with kids - this past year and I heartily recommend it
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Weird. It was Gif’ing for me me 😂