February 2010
24 posts
DOT Green Light for Midtown Evaluation Report →
DOT’s official report announcing that the partial closure of seven city blocks including Times Square to autos will be permanent.Traffic congestion goals were only met partially, with 7% overall faster traffic flow on average on 6th and 7th Avenue, but it looks like significant improvements in both pedestrian and motorist/passenger safety and positive feedback from locals outweighed traffic...
Watch1909- 2009 by Ngoc Minh Ngo Spectator Spectacle
Looking Down at the Ground.
Image Credit: Curbking
So my analysis of our area from the 1609-1709 period, has created an interest in curbs. This curb appeal starts with the question of why we have road curbs at all? In earlier times the edge of a street ended at the frontage of the building. Their origin is from Europe. The word is derived from both the French and English. The OED finds first use of the word in 1477-...
Streetsfilms.
If you don’t know it already, check out Street Films www.streetfilms.org “Documenting livable streets world wide”. Quite sure NYC DOT knows about it.
Wouldn’t that be a great job? To go document pedestrian plazas all over the world. Internship anyone?
- Kathleen
(Re)Becoming a New Yorker.
At this point I never feel like a tourist in this town. I long ago adopted the confident stride and steely-eyed-forward- facing stare of so many New Yorkers. When traveling through midtown-a place I more often then not try to avoid, I impatiently sidestep the slow moving herds of Europeans and Midwesterners if I must be there at all. But last Thursday night, too cold for most visitors, with the...
Links We Like.
Mannahatta Project
http://themannahattaproject.org/
NYCDOT Broadway
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/broadway.shtml
Times Square Alliance
http://www.timessquarenyc.org/
Makeshift Mall in Times Square - NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/nyregion/01bigcity.html?_r=3
Times Square Will Never Be Finished
http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2009/62709/
Times Square Cam
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Columbus Circle to Madison Square.
Beginning a project like Times Square is daunting. Not that the size of the space, from a landscape perspective, is particularly large. Nor is the scope of program. But it’s much like setting out to make sense of a massive canyon created by centuries of activity layered one on top of the other; the resulting formations can be complex and dizzying. There is no built public space quite...
Who We Are.
Visiting the Ice Heart. Credit: Monica Hernandez
Chris Zenk
Charlie Fields
Elizabeth Short
Erin McLean
Jean Galle
Melissa Schiltz
Monica Hernandez (in spirit)
Ngoc Minh Ngo
Kathleen O’Grady
Anne Trumble (instructor)
“Times Square Studio is the public space section of the final design studio in...”
