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A Century of New York, Above and Below West 4th Street
How a station built for trains that didn’t exist yet became the gateway to one of New York’s densest cultural pockets.
 • Tal Roded and Alexa Weiser
Clinton Street Has a Traffic Problem. A Low Traffic Neighborhood redesign would fix it.
The Williamsburg Bridge funnels 16,000 vehicles a day onto a single one-lane residential block, resulting in endless traffic and frequent pedestrian…
 • Tal Roded
New York Needs to Grow
Challenges and opportunities New York faces as it tackles its affordability crisis
 • Tal Roded
Parks or Transit? The Rockaway Beach Branch Debate Is…Complicated
A walk through the RBB corridor, a conversation with QueensWay advocates, and the MTA’s own projections make the case for the greenway harder to dismiss…
 • Tal Roded
March Parks Committee Report for Manhattan CB3
A floating pool in the East River and an operator for long-shuttered public restrooms in the Allen Street Malls are coming soon!
 • Zachary Thomas
NYC's Streets Are Getting Better. Just Not Fast Enough.
Five years in, NYCDOT is falling short of bike lane and bus lane mandates by wide margins. With the 2026 Streets Plan coming, I looked at what went…
 • Tal Roded
The Interborough Express Might Be NYC’s Best Transit Investment in Decades
A data-driven look at ridership, cost efficiency, and what happens when transit finally connects the outer boroughs to each other
 • Tal Roded
Help Protect a Tompkins Square Park Ginkgo Tree!
How you can help add a new tree guard in TSP, why tree guards matter, and how Parks procurement works
 • Tal Roded
NYC Mapped Its Greenways. Now It Has to Build Them.
Examining the Greater Greenways Plan, accessibility patterns, and the problem of isolated pedestrian infrastructure
 • Tal Roded
An Inside Look at the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project
Notes from an on-site tour with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection
 • Tal Roded
A Blueprint for Safer, Quieter Streets in NYC
Why NYC needs to go beyond Open Streets and pilot permanent low-traffic zones that prioritize pedestrians over cars - and how DOT can get it done
 • Tal Roded
Inside NYC DOT’s Canal Street Safety Improvement Plan
A long-awaited proposal aims to fix one of Lower Manhattan’s most dangerous streets, and the public has a chance to push it forward
 • Tal Roded
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