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Sadik-Khan Kowtows to Critics, or Is 34th Street Just a Bait-and-Switch?

In her four years atop the city’s Department of Transportation, Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan has masterminded a re-engineering of the city’s

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The Bicycle Wars of 1893—Still Being Fought Today

It looks like the bicycle backlash is nothing new: The Times described upper Broadway as “a regular race track” for

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Times Square Comes to East New York: Pedestrian Plazas Aren’t Just for Midtown

It is a 50 minute ride on the 3-Train from Times Square to the end of the line in New

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Will Queens Plaza Become the New Times Square?

It was a big deal when JetBlue decided to move to Long Island City two years ago. The air carrier

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Bulldogs! Might Some Entitled Yalies Torpedo Plan to Pedestrianize Vanderbilt...

The knives are already drawn for a proposal that might not even happen, a proposed closure of Vanderbilt Avenue to

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A Tale of Two Pedestrian Plazas: Transformation In Corona, Lamentations in...

Who says the Department of Transportation does not respect the will of the community in which it is working? Last

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Among the Last Pedestrian Plazas of the Bloomberg Era, Marcy Avenue Plaza Is...

Primary Day: it is, for many New Yorkers, a time when the next mayoralty moves from the realm of the

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Times Square Business Leader: Panhandling, Not Toplessness, Is the Real Problem

Times Square Alliance President Tim Tompkins called the desnudas "a total distraction" and stood up for the pedestrian plazas.

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City Planning Chairman: ‘There’s Nothing in Times Square That Ever Surprises Me’

While the bare breasts of Times Square's painted ladies seemed to have shocked some officials, City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod—often credited with cleaning up Times Square the first time around—is...

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Batman Vs. Naked Cowboy: The Fight Over Taming Times Square

The Naked Cowboy doesn't mind being constrained within Times Square, but Batman does not intend to go quietly.

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