Telling the Story of Cities
Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: an unprecedented rent decrease, office-to-residential conversion puzzles, and an update on NYC’s trash conundrum. Philly Plans to Cap the Vine Street Expressway to Reconnect Chinatown (The Philadelphia Inquirer) – “The planning also will address ground-level Vine Street itself, where traffic is plentiful and fast, so… Read more What We’re Reading – March 21st
5 articles curated by the Wagner Planner staff: The Official Brooklyn Bus Redesign is Out (Pedestrian Observations) – “The frequency in the proposed system is, frankly, bad. The MTA seems to believe that the appropriate frequency for urban mass transit is a train or bus every 10 minutes. This is acceptable in the suburban neighborhoods… Read more What We’re Reading – December 13th 2022
More NYC transit riders than ever have limited English proficiency. Improving language access would benefit equity and the economy. Jorge Gobbi As New York City continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, residents in working-class and immigrant neighborhoods have gotten back to riding public transportation. Or in many cases, they never had a choice to… Read more WHY NEW YORK CITY’S PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM NEEDS BETTER LANGUAGE ACCESS