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Call it the ultimate transit-oriented development (TOD). New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is pushing sustainability to new heights by seeking to turn historic Metro-North train stations outside the Big Apple into retail and dining hot spots... Read On

In an effort to get money flowing to important infrastructure construction sites, the Obama Administration announced this week that they would "fast track" a series of near-ready projects, and included among those is our own Tappan Zee. ... Read On

Philip Silva is standing on a sidewalk in Queens, quite literally hugging a tree. It's an enormous London planetree, more than five feet around, shading the sidewalk in front of a modest rowhouse that serves as both tutoring center and mosque... Read On

When they filed their lawsuit this March, opponents of the Prospect Park West redesign had little chance of succeeding in court. As NYU Law Professor Roderick Hills, Jr. told Streetsblog in March, "I take this complaint to be largely public relations, with no more law behind it than is minimally necessary to avoid sanctions for frivolity."... Read On

New York is spending multiple billions of dollars on two signature projects in Lower Manhattan of which the more expensive (PATH terminal at $3.8 billion) has no transportation benefits and the less expensive (Fulton Street Transit Center at $1.4 billion) has small transportation benefits... Read On

The complexity of crossing the street in a city comes through clearly at the corner of West 42nd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. At that spot, pedestrians heading toward Times Square usually start to cross the avenue after the uptown traffic stops... Read On

Train stations in Japan are a lot of things. They are busy - Tokyo's Shinjuku Station sees two-thirds as many passengers as the entire NYC Subway. They are complex - the big ones are shared by multiple railway companies, from public to private and everything in between... Read On

Time Warner Inc. is eyeing several new possibilities for its headquarters in Manhattan, from the World Trade Center to a new tower on the West Side of Manhattan, as it undertakes a broad evaluation of its real estate in New York, according to people familiar with the matter... Read On