It looks like the city is saying no to several planters on Union Street in Park Slope. The concrete planters near Seventh Avenue contained small evergreen trees. News was posted over at Brooklynian: The city in it’s infinite wisdom has revoked the permits we had for the planters along union street. They have given us […]

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Check out the Street Films vid and blog post about the new Pearl Street Triangle space in Dumbo and the city’s project to transform 30 streets into public spaces. As one would expect, Dumbo NYC has had great coverage of the project.

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The way things go from day to day in Brooklyn and New York City generally, “Outrage!” could refer to everything from the construction site next door to a plan to toss food vendors from a local park. In this case, it’s a photo contest being run by the Municipal Art Society, which is looking for […]

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Here’s the second installment in this week’s Street Couch Series. This, too, comes from the sofa-filled sidewalks of Williamsburg. We call this one Sofa with Hanging Bicycle.

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Workers have been toiling at installing these tree guards in Park Slope this spring, particularly along Prospect Park West, Eighth Avenue and, recently, Fifth and Sixth Streets. We don’t know how many have been installed, or will be, but you’ll know they’re coming to a tree near you by the square boxes painted on the […]

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We have walked past this stop sign too many times to count. We haven’t seen it. In fact, we’re running it as part of our challenged signage feature because, well, it might escape your notice unless you’re sitting in the cab of a tractor trailer or about ten feet tall. And, even then, you might […]

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Among the many places those new glassy bus shelters have popped up in recent weeks is Columbia Street in Red Hook. We’re still not sure how we feel about them as part of the streetscape, although we suppose we more like them than not. We like that they’re labeled as to location of the stop, […]

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Call them newspaper condos. At some point soon, a “modular distribution box” will be coming to the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street designed to address the issue of dozens of individual news boxes at the intersection. (There are, for instance, 14 boxes near Smiling Pizza at Seventh and 9th.) The “news box clutter” […]

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