Dear Commissioner Garcia: I am writing to tell you how excited I am for the new Bicycle Boulevard configuration on 39th Avenue, and how much I appreciate it. When my wife and I were looking for an apartment in the neighborhood, we
You may have heard of “inn to inn” walks. It’s like backpacking, but with restaurant meals, beds and showers every night. I’ve heard about it in Europe, particularly in England. In California, Tom Courtney and his daughter Emily have published a series
In the summer of 1998 I was on a bus from Montreal to New York. At the United States border we were told to get off, get our bags and file through a building. Inside I showed an immigration agent my passport,
Mayor de Blasio, the CEO of Amtrak, and the leadership of the Queens Chamber of Commerce want to build a series of decks over the Sunnyside Yards, that would then serve as platforms for new apartments, offices and possibly parks and attractions.
In 1956 Isaac Asimov wrote a little song about the Second Avenue Subway, set to the tune of a classic Christmas carol. Fifteen years later he published it in his Treasury of Humor. I’ll let you follow the link and read it,
Today I took a walk along Queens Boulevard in my neighborhood, where the Department of Transportation has been working to transform the medians into walking and cycling paths like those on Eastern and Ocean Parkways in Brooklyn. One of the most interesting
“Et si on commençait par élargir les trottoirs, Madame Hidalgo?” December 8, 2014. Le Monde. By Olivier Razemon, translated by Angus B. Grieve-Smith. View the original post for full-size images. Banning diesel vehicles, partially pedestrianizing the four central districts, bike paths, routes
On the evening of September 28, 2013, college student Luis Bravo was killed by a hit-and-run driver in my neighborhood while walking down Broadway on the way home from the supermarket. As I wrote a few days later, that part of Broadway
This past Saturday, a young college student was killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking on Broadway at 58th Street here in Woodside. I know the danger he felt. Just two weeks before I was walking home from a dinner date in
Last month I guessed that when Ari Wallach said that Hastings-on-Hudson is a village “in a Wittgensteinian sense,” he meant that it was part of a family of things that are called “villages,” but don’t all share the same set of criteria.