The greenest grocer
Here on Jackson and 11th is easily one of LICs best shops – Natural Frontier Market. Grand organic and healthy to the max so perhaps you won’t want to do ALL your shopping here. But you want to do SOME. They have all the coolest edge snacks and yogurts and drinks and cereals and stuff […]
Subway stations retain signs listing places and streets that no longer exist
They’re signs of the times — old times. On the A line in the Rockaways, the Beach 98th Street-Playland stop sits next to a high-rise housing development in an otherwise depressed neighborhood. There’s nothing playful about the area, where the roller coaster of the once-popular amusement park Rockaways’ Playland rumbled until the theme park shuttered […]
Bike riding up 4x since Bloomberg took over. 20,000 riders per day
See on Scoop.it – Long Island City Their numbers show commuter cycling has doubled in the last four years and nearly quadrupled since 2001. See on transportationnation.org
Subway stations retain signs of places and streets that no longer exist
They’re signs of the times — old times. On the A line in the Rockaways, the Beach 98th Street-Playland stop sits next to a high-rise housing development in an otherwise depressed neighborhood. There’s nothing playful about the area, where the roller coaster of the once-popular amusement park Rockaways’ Playland rumbled until the theme park shuttered […]
Bloomberg Pushes a Plan to Let Midtown Soar
London, Tokyo and other metropolises have created central business districts with forests of skyscrapers in recent years, seeking to meet the needs of globe-trotting corporate tenants. But New York’s premier district, the 70-block area around Grand Central Terminal, has lagged, Bloomberg officials say, hampered by zoning rules, decades old, that have limited the height of […]