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Posted in Christine Quinn, Gansevoort Plaza on Jun 20th, 2008
Christine Quinn (Council Speaker) is holding a meeting next week regarding use of the newly reconfigured Gansevoort Plaza.
We decided to set this up after we heard a lot of concern from neighborhood residents and businesses about how often and what sort of events will be allowed in the plaza.
The new plaza formation is [...]
Posted in Gansevoort Plaza, Our Spaces, traffic on Jul 24th, 2007
My apologies for the above UGLIEST MAP EVER (I suck at graphics), which is my rendering of the proposal from the Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project for Gansevoort Plaza re-configuration. If anyone wants to send me a fancier, prettier, better map, I would happily replace mine with theirs. BTW - [...]
Posted in CB2 meetings, Gansevoort Plaza, events on Jul 3rd, 2007
If anyone out there has not yet heard about the Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project (God is that a mouthful), here’s your opporutunity. The group will be presenting their findings and proposals to the (open to the public) TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION committee of Community Board 2 on Tuesday, 7/10 @ 6:30 PM –NYU Silver [...]
Posted in Billboards, Gansevoort Plaza, Hotel Gansevoort on Feb 22nd, 2007
Ugh, not only are they erecting a hideously ugly billboard, but the billboard base has now taken the space where Hotel Gansevoort used to keep their trash, so now we have to walk by their massive loads of trash heaped on the sidewalk every day. Aren’t there rules about where and how you can [...]
Posted in Gansevoort Plaza, traffic on Feb 22nd, 2007
Walking home through Gansevoort plaza this weekend, I noticed that the snow clearing (or lack thereof) epitomized the root of the traffic issues in Gansevoort Plaza. The street is so large, and so oddly sized that cars don’t even drive through a large triangle-shaped section in the middle - as you can see from the [...]
Posted in CB2, Christine Quinn, Gansevoort Plaza, MPDI, PPS, TA, Tom Duane, events, traffic on Jul 1st, 2005
TRAFFIC IN THE MEAT MARKET: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Do you have ideas for traffic and pedestrian uses in Gansevoort Market?
Attend the
Gansevoort Market Evaluation and Visioning Workshop
Conducted by:
Project for Public Spaces and Transportation Alternatives
Sponsored by:
Community Board 2
Office of State Senator Tom Duane
Office of City Council Member Christine Quinn
Tuesday, July 19
6:30 PM
Housing Works
320 West 13th [...]