On Staten Island, community activists push for a High Line-style park
Out on the North Shore of Staten Island, an abandoned train line is slowly rotting away.
Out on the North Shore of Staten Island, an abandoned train line is slowly rotting away.
With help from an unlikely trio, an abandoned rail car that sits forlornly on North Broad is set to become the official welcome center for the Rail Park.
When the High Line Canal Conservancy set out to create an updated plan for the 71-mile National Landmark Trail, the nonprofit was tasked with managing a unique and broad set of dilemmas.
The Army Corps of Engineers signed off on the permit last Wednesday and Harris County Flood Control officials received approval of the individual permit for the project on Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration announced on Tuesday that his soon-to-be-unveiled executive budget will include $100 million to “significantly narrow” the “largest gap in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.”
A group of skateboarders is hoping the city will spare a small skatepark they’ve built on a walkway beside Fort York, about six months after crews demolished another DIY park in the west end.
Once seen as urban blight, abandoned industrial corridors and rail lines have been transformed into some of the country’s most popular parks and trails.
Washington D.C.’s Wards 6 and 8 are right next to each other, but the two could not be more different.
Talk of “infrastructure” may be one of the few things—if not the only thing—that comes close to uniting Democrats and Republicans at the moment.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced a new fund to help residents in the Beltline pay their rising tax bills as home prices increase in the area.