Please mr Wolfe; those little parks are NOT separated from the street. They ARE the street. Streets are for people not just cars.
I never have seen the attraction of sitting next to car fumes...give me a little more separation from the carbon monoxide but, hey, different strokes!
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"It's so relaxing here."....Really???
Dining in the midst of street traffic, honking horns and car exhaust?...oh, and I forgot to mention the bees.
Am I missing something??
Dining in the midst of street traffic, honking horns and car exhaust?...oh, and I forgot to mention the bees.
Am I missing something??
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I never saw what was special about this either, plus there are already a number of parks and plazas that exist right now that they can easily use.
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Pop-Up parks in the street, during the age of terrorists mowing people down with cars and trucks, does not seem like a good idea. Better that the city limit vehicular traffic on certain streets and make them SAFE for people enjoying an al Fresco lunch. The Students have the right perspective on green space and making life in the city even more enjoyable, but please, please, please do not make yourselves targets.,
You are forgetting that terrorists don't play by the rules. They could drive a vehicle into these if they wanted to. In all honesty, they don't need to drive into others to make their statements. Some of them can have knives for stabbing or carry some explosives with them either strapped to themselves or in something like a briefcase for suicide bombings. I know this from all the terrorist attacks that go on in Israel by Hamas, who for some reason are labeled a resistance group instead of terrorists by anti-Israel fanatics, especially being from there.
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Thanks for this, Tal. When Palestinians drive trucks and tractors into Israelis, or take knives and -- having learned how from how-to videos -- slash the throats of Israelis, they're applauded. That is, if such events even get publicized. When such things happen here, it's terrorism.
It's a miracle that Israelis forge ahead and continue to invent our medicines and technologies.
It's a miracle that Israelis forge ahead and continue to invent our medicines and technologies.
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Does the “Night Mayor” position (in the "And Finally" section) need a theme for the want ad, maybe?
"Night Mayor"
Tune of "Night Fever" [Saturday Night Fever version]
Looking at our town, when the sun is going down
People in a tux or gown - fill the city
Or for other events, need a little grit or glamour -
We need someone to head a committee
The right man or woman should be a good czar
Someone fun who’ll take control
Write to us now if you think you’d be right
(chorus)
Oh yes, a Night Mayor, Night Mayor
Who’d know how to do it
Need a Night Mayor, Night Mayor
Come on, now, hop to it
(repeat chorus)
"Night Mayor"
Tune of "Night Fever" [Saturday Night Fever version]
Looking at our town, when the sun is going down
People in a tux or gown - fill the city
Or for other events, need a little grit or glamour -
We need someone to head a committee
The right man or woman should be a good czar
Someone fun who’ll take control
Write to us now if you think you’d be right
(chorus)
Oh yes, a Night Mayor, Night Mayor
Who’d know how to do it
Need a Night Mayor, Night Mayor
Come on, now, hop to it
(repeat chorus)
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Another inspired tune, Frdddie- thank you!
WHEEL AWAY, STRANGER
My holy land
And private place
Is the sacred ground
That's my parking space.
My holy land
And private place
Is the sacred ground
That's my parking space.
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CANINE CANYONS
Manhattan dogs
Are here to stay
And cover the streets
Twice a day.
Manhattan dogs
Are here to stay
And cover the streets
Twice a day.
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Parklets of carbon monoxide
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I'm all for fewer cars, fewer parking places, and more pop-up parks.
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"The person holding the position will be responsible for resolving disputes and act as a liaison between nightlife establishments and residents."
You think you can get the urinators to hold it until they get home? Unless, that is, they're all eighty-five-year olds with bladder problems.
You think you can get the urinators to hold it until they get home? Unless, that is, they're all eighty-five-year olds with bladder problems.
The Mayor of Ithaca, Svante Myrick, walks to work so turned his parking spot into a minipark back in 2012. http://grist.org/cities/ithaca-mayor-turns-his-personal-parking-space-in...
Not a fan of these at all. I walk by a few of them in the mornings, and all I see are homeless people "living" and sleeping in them, sometimes defecating and urinating, in these areas.
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If you tried to address this issue to either anti-car fanatics over on Streetsblog or Transportation Alternatives, they will most likely deny that in order to keep their agenda going.
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Mayor John V Lindsay had night mayors! I met one -- and snapped his photo --at the opening of the exhibit celebrating "The Lindsay Years" at the Museum of City of New York several years ago. The exhibit lives on, online, here: http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/americas-mayor
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I don't own a car in the city, so I think pop-up parks are great; I do, however, recall my mother searching high and low to find a parking spot in the neighborhood (the same as Parsons), as she aged and parking spots became rare, the long hike back to the apartment took a greater toll on her physically and mentally (remembering where she parked became a challenge). For some, a car is essential to get to work and lot rates in the neighborhood are astronomical.
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Hey go easy on those people who forget where they park their car: I can lose my car easily in the parking lot – only because there are other four wheeled vehicles nearby– Now if I had six wheeled vehicle, that would be unique enough for me to figure out if it's mine
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To me it sounds like a waste of a perfectly good parking spot; and if it was too hot, I could at least turn on the blower since the AC isn't working in my carbon huffing vehicle… But i wont be making it to the city anytime soon, since I like my Redwood trees that could be laid to waste by one of little Kim's nuclear dirty bombs anyway.
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These parklets are great. They've had them in San Francisco for maybe a decade and they are very popular. One person getting to park their car gets changed to many people getting to use the same space. And all those people spend money in businesses in front of the parklets. There are plenty of other ways to free up parking spaces if we want to: raise meter rates, lower parking lot taxes, congestion pricing, update subway signaling.
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In all honesty, I'm not a big fan of these pop-up parks. They just take up too much space be it on the streets or in the sidewalks. When it comes to weather, they will be seen as a waste of space. If it's too hot, most wouldn't want to spend their time outside and boiling themselves in such heat unless they are desperate for a place to sit when they will most likely want to be inside where it's probably air conditioned and cooler. Meanwhile, if it rains, nobody will even use that seating in such weather. Unfortunately, this is just another of Bloomberg's anti-car agenda to help promote congestion pricing by creating the very congestion itself. Either way, it feels like a hassle to place them up and take them down just like the Summer Streets. As for parking, all the really do is just shift the vehicles over to somewhere else giving other areas that problem. On a side note, the Liberty are hosting the Washington Mystics tonight on MSG Network yet I'm surprised that didn't get mentioned even though Sunday's game did.
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What nonsense. Greenspaces aren't worthwhile because people tend not to go outside in inclement weather? By that logic, we should pave Central Park and put up a parking lot. If unfettered access to parking for one's private car is one's chief priority, perhaps one should leave New York City and move to Pleasantville. Oh, wait...
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First of all, I do take offense from you insulting me from where I live, but that's probably what I have to expect from fanatics such as yourself. I'm not against green spaces as a whole, I just don't think that they should take up spaces on the streets let alone replace entire streets. This is the reason why there are parks and plazas. How about doing something with the green space that already exists rather than just creating new ones elsewhere? At least with parks like Central Park, I can go in the shade where there are a lot of trees to avoid the sunlight while that isn't the case for the pop-up parks. Personally, I do wish that de Blasio would remove the plazas in both Times and Hearlds Squares as he originally said he would do, but then reneged after huge pressure from the anti-car fanatics to keep them around despite all the issues especially after mascots harassing people while there. Unfortunately, you anti-car fanatics don't seem to understand where the rest of are coming from let alone understand the causes to why we drive and rather use the effects instead.