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New York City Places and Spaces

Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: Jan, 2010

Description:

A growing collection of websites selected by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library staff for web archiving preservation by the Columbia University Libraries' Web Resources Collection Program. Website captures began in 2010 and are ongoing; in 2020, to reflect the collection's evolving subject focus, the collection title was changed to 'New York City Places and Spaces' (from the original 'Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning'). The collection's principal thematic focus is documenting the evolution of the built environment and public spaces in and around New York City through the interaction of historic preservation efforts and new development projects within urban planning debates. Selected websites are mostly published by non-profit groups or individuals based in the New York City area, including historic preservation groups, neighborhood associations, community development groups, public policy organizations, parks and open space conservancies, and both sponsors and critics of ongoing development projects.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Government - Cities Society & Culture Community development Public spaces Parks City planning Historic preservation Architecture

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Title: Access Queens

URL: http://accessqueens.org/

Description: "Founded in May of 2015, Access Queens is a coalition of local New York City residents committed to sustaining vibrant, diverse communities. We know that the success and economic stability of our communities and our borough, depends on access to appropriate infrastructure that supports and enables Queens to thrive. As infrastructure goes hand in hand with responsible development, and as Queens continues to grow, we will advocate for the needs of our borough."

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Subject:   Transportation

Title: Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Chelsea Coalition for Pedestrian Safety, CHEKPEDS

URL: http://chekpeds.com/

Description: "Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Chelsea Coalition for Pedestrian Safety (CHEKPEDS) was founded by residents and community leaders in September 2005, to reclaim 9th Avenue from the hellish Lincoln Tunnel traffic. The coalition works directly with elected officials, city agencies, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, business associations, Business Improvements Districts, local institutions, and Manhattan Community Board 4 to obtain crucial traffic relief and pedestrian safety measures."

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Subject:   Pedestrians Cycling Walking Transportation--Safety measures

Title: Move NY, MoveNY

URL: http://iheartmoveny.org/

Description: "Move NY is a region-wide grassroots campaign that seeks to build support for a master transportation plan for the New York metropolitan area. Our mission is to bring faster, safer, fairer transportation to all New Yorkers -- drivers, riders, cyclists, and pedestrians alike."

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Subject:   Transportation Toll roads Toll bridges Transportation--Fares

Title: Mobility in New York City, Mobility factbook

URL: http://nycmobility.org/

Description: "Mobility in New York City: The Factbook explores how New Yorkers move, now and in the past, using 28 transportation modes. Two modes were excluded due to a lack of reliable data: delivery bikes and motorized delivery bikes, which are evident on streets and often illegally parked on sidewalks, but unreliably measured."

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Subject:   Local transit Transportation Pedestrians Cycling Subways

Title: 2nd Ave. sagas, Second Ave. sagas, Second Avenue sagas

URL: http://secondavenuesagas.com/

Description: Second Ave. Sagas has been the home for news, views and commentary on the subway system, MTA and transportation in New York City since November 2006. Founded with an eye toward tracking the progress of the long awaited Second Ave. Subway, SAS has morphed into a site that focuses on all things transit underground--and some things above ground."

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Subject:   Transportation Subways Subway stations Land use City planning

Title: Transit Center

URL: http://transitcenter.org/

Description: "Transit Center is a foundation dedicated to urban mobility. We are 14 people from myriad backgrounds, including departments of transportation, transit agencies, taxi drivers, advocacy, elected office, and international development. Though diverse in perspective, we're united in the belief that the greatest challenges facing transit and better, more sustainable cities are not technological but rather human."

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Subject:   Transportation Local transit Buses--Ridership

Title: National Center for Bicycling & Walking, Bike Walk

URL: http://www.bikewalk.org/

Description: "The National Center for Bicycling & Walking (NCBW) is a resident program at Project for Public Spaces, Inc. NCBW was establishing in 1977, as the Bicycle Federation of America, Inc. NCBW's mission is to create bicycle-friendly and walkable communities ... The aim of the NCBW's program is to change the way communities are planned, designed and managed to ensure that people of all ages and abilities can walk and bike easily, safely and regularly."

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Subject:   Traffic safety Pedestrians Cycling Walking Bicycle lanes Bicycle commuting

Title: Alliance for Biking & Walking

URL: http://www.bikewalkalliance.org/

Description: "The Alliance for Biking & Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycling and walking advocacy organizations. We give advocates tools to win campaigns that transform communities into great places to bike and walk."

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Subject:   Traffic safety Pedestrians Walking Bicycle lanes Bicycle commuting Cycling

Title: Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, Brooklyn Queens Connector, BQX

URL: http://www.bqx.nyc/

Description: "Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, Inc. is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that supports the Mayor's initiative to create connectivity and generate economic development along the East River waterfront corridor from Sunset Park to Astoria through the construction of a modern streetcar that complements and enhances existing transportation infrastructure."

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Subject:   Transportation Land use City planning

Title: Brooklyn Historic Railway Association

URL: http://www.brooklynrail.net/

Description: "The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to returning trolleys to the streets of Brooklyn, NY. BHRA has 2 decades of experience working with light rail technology and historic trolleys ...The BHRA museum and trolley barn is located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the historic Beard Street Piers (circa 1870). BHRA currently has a fleet of 16 trolleys (15 PCC trolleys and a trolley car from 1897). We currently operate a fully functional trolley line along the historic Red Hook waterfront."

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Subject:   Trolley cars Transportation museums Transportation

Title: East River Skyway

URL: http://www.eastriverskyway.com/

Description: Website of proposed plan to build East River Skyway "to alleviate congestion on the L subway line, connect Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan, and create access to the Brooklyn Navy Yards."

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Subject:   Transportation Land use City planning

Title: Friends of Moynihan Station

URL: http://www.moynihanstation.org/

Description: Friends of Moynihan Station is coalition of leading civic organizations, business groups and elected officials advocating the construction of a grand new train hall in the Farely Post Office building to expand and improve Penn Station.

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Subject:   Moynihan Station (New York, N.Y.) Railroad stations City planning Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) James A. Farley Building (New York, N.Y.)

Title: International Design + Deliverability Competition

URL: http://www.pabtcompetition.com/

Description: "The purpose of the Port Authority Bus Terminal International Design + Deliverability Competition is to seek ideas and design concepts for a new bus terminal that also are deliverable in a complex urban environment...The competition is an early-stage step by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey prior to proposing a major regional project for a new midtown bus terminal, which will be subject to a transportation alternatives analysis and thorough assessment under the applicable federal, state, and local government processes with extensive opportunities for public involvement."

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Subject:   Transportation Bus terminals Port Authority Bus Terminal (New York, N.Y.) Design--Competitions

Title: Riders Alliance

URL: http://www.ridersny.org/

Description: "The Riders Alliance fights for reliable, affordable, world-class public transit in order to build a more just and sustainable New York. We organize subway and bus riders to develop grassroots power across racial, economic and neighborhood lines."

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Subject:   Transportation Subways Bus lines--Ridership Subway stations

Title: Straphangers Campaign, NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign

URL: http://www.straphangers.org/

Description: Home page for the Straphangers Campaign, which was founded in 1979 by the New York Public Interest Research Group to serve as a public advocate for subway and bus riders. Offers information on mass transit system, reports and opinion polls, and links to other related resources.

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Subject:   Transportation Buses Subways

Title: Streetsblog : informing the movement to improve walking, biking, and transit

URL: http://www.streetsblog.org/

Description: "Streetsblog connects people to information about how to reduce dependence on cars and improve conditions for walking, biking, and transit. Since 2006, our reporters have broken important stories about efforts to prevent pedestrian injuries and deaths, build out bicycle networks, and make transit more useful."

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Subject:   Transportation

Title: Tri-State Transportation Campaign

URL: http://www.tstc.org/

Description: "The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is a 501(c)(3) non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to reducing car dependency in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut ... In the 20 years since our founding, the Campaign has enjoyed a strong record of accomplishment. Among our most notable victories are halting highway widenings, fighting fare increases and service cuts, encouraging smart growth approaches at state departments of transportation, and calling for millions of dollars of investment in public transportation, pedestrian, bicycle, and transit-oriented development initiatives."

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Subject:   City planning Transportation

Title: BQE Corridor Vision -- Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

URL: https://bqevision.com/

Description: "New York City is moving forward to fix the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) in Brooklyn. The BQE is a vital part of our transportation system and our economy – we can and must immediately start working on a community-driven plan for the safe, modern, resilient roadway we need."

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Subject:   Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (New York, N.Y.) Highway planning City planning Transportation

Title: Harbor Ring : a 60-mile bicycle/pedestrian route around New York Harbor

URL: https://harborring.org/

Description: "The Harbor Ring Committee is a partnership of organizations and individuals working collaboratively to promote bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure encircling New York Harbor, including the main missing link, a pathway across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge."

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Subject:   Walking Cycling Bicycle lanes Bicycle commuting Transportation Greenways

Title: Streetsblog New York City

URL: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/

Description: "Streetsblog NYC covers the five boroughs of New York and important transportation policy developments in Albany. Starting with our first scoop in 2006, which tallied up the rampant abuse of parking placards, we’ve helped set the agenda for local transportation coverage. "

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Subject:   Transportation

Title: Region NYC

URL: https://region.nyc/

Description: "This website is a means of sharing ideas, information, photos, maps and research related to planning, architecture and urbanism. We hope that the exchange of perspectives on planning, housing, transportation, architecture and the built environment will enhance the understanding of planning principles and practices and how they affect the lives of urban dwellers."

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Subject:   City planning Urban development Transportation

Title: Seastreak Ferries

URL: https://seastreak.com/

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Subject:   Transportation Ferries

Title: Stop the Chop NY NJ

URL: https://stopthechopnynj.org/

Description: "Stop the Chop NYNJ is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt grassroots organization formed to ban nonessential helicopter flights over NYC, the NY Metropolitan Area and NJ. Non-essential (tourist, charter and commuter) helicopter flights dramatically reduce the quality of life for millions of people in the New York metropolitan area. They pollute our environment, pose significant safety risks, harm our children, and make us miserable"

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Subject:   Helicopters--Noise Noise pollution

Title: QueensLink

URL: https://thequeenslink.org/

Description: "The QueensLink looks to provide a new north-south transit link in Queens while also using available land for new park space. The QueensLink proposes rerouting the M train south after 63rd Dr-Rego Park station along a new 3.5-mile extension south along the border of Rego Park and Forest Hills, the through Forest Park, Woodhaven, and Ozone Park before connecting to the existing A train to Rockaway Park."

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Subject:   Railroads Transportation Land use Parks

Title: 14th Street Coalition

URL: https://www.14thstreetcoalition.org/

Description: "We are the 14th Street Coalition, a growing group of concerned residents and organizations formed in response to the MTA and DOT proposed plans, scheduled to commence April 2019, for a complete L train shutdown and traffic pattern changes on 14th Street and the Williamsburg Bridge that will negatively impact all the surrounding streets and neighborhoods for its projected 15 month duration -- but who really knows (think 2nd Avenue Subway)."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning Transportation Fourteenth Street (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)

Title: NYA - New York & Atlantic Railway

URL: https://www.anacostia.com/railroads/nya

Description: "New York & Atlantic Railway began operation in May 1997 as result of the privatized concession to operate freight trains on the lines owned by Long Island Rail Road. The railway serves a diverse customer base and shares track with the densest passenger system in the United States. NYA connects with CP, CSX, NYNJ, NS and PW."

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Subject:   Transportation Freight and freightage Railroad trains Railroads

Title: BQX, Brooklyn Queens Connector

URL: https://www.brooklynqueensconnector.nyc/

Description: "The Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) is a City investment to better connect New Yorkers who have limited transit options to where they need to go. The BQX is a proposed streetcar that will connect a dozen neighborhoods along an 11-mile corridor from Red Hook to Astoria. "

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Subject:   Land use Transportation City planning

Title: Citi Bike: NYC’s Official Bike Sharing System

URL: https://www.citibikenyc.com/

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Subject:   Cycling Bicycle sharing programs

Title: Straphangers Campaign

URL: https://www.nypirg.org/straphangers/

Description: "The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign fights for safe, reliable, accessible, and affordable New York City mass transit, offers critical information to the public, and empowers riders."

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Subject:   Transportation Buses Subways

Title: New York Transit Museum

URL: https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/

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Subject:   Transportation Subways

Title: New York Water Taxi

URL: https://www.nywatertaxi.com/

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Subject:   Transportation

Title: NY Waterway

URL: https://www.nywaterway.com/

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Subject:   Transportation Ferries

Title: Rebuild the original Penn Station, Rebuild Penn Station

URL: https://www.rebuildpennstation.org/

Description: Mission: "To dramatically enhance the quality of life in the New York City metropolitan area by rebuilding the original Pennsylvania Station as the centerpiece of a new world-class transportation network for the entire region."

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Subject:   Land use City planning Transportation Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

Title: ReThinkNYC

URL: https://www.rethinknyc.org/

Description: ReThinkNYC is a New York City-based non-profit organization specialized in transportation infrastructure and how it relates to complex urban, governance and socio-economic issues."

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Subject:   Transportation City planning

Title: Riders Alliance

URL: https://www.ridersalliance.org/

Description: "The Riders Alliance fights for reliable, affordable, world-class public transit in order to build a more just and sustainable New York. We organize subway and bus riders to develop grassroots power across racial, economic and neighborhood lines."

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Subject:   Transportation Subways Bus lines--Ridership Subway stations

Title: Transportation Alternatives

URL: https://www.transalt.org/

Description: "Transportation Alternatives' mission is to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile and to promote bicycling, walking, public transit."

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Subject:   Transportation Cycling Bicycle commuting Bicycle lanes Pedestrians Traffic safety

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