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Governing Magazine - Placemaker Profile: Allan Jacobs
Envisioning New York
Check out these photo-simulations PPS developed for the New York City Streets Renaissance.- Astor Place
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- Nowhere else in New York offers more opportunity to create something out of nothing than Astor Place.
- Bleecker Street and Christopher Street
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- Replacing pavement with plaza space could make this intersection much better.
- West Broadway
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- What an underutilized stretch of roadway would look like if more sidewalk space were given to shops and restaurants.
- Grand Street
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- This street is used by pedestrians more than vehicles, but you'd never know it if you saw the sidewalk space.
- Public Space Transformations
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- A StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson, Jr
Watch as New York's streets transform into pedestrian havens before your very eyes!
Running time - 2:00
