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[VIDEO] Here's What Brooklyn and Queens Residents Have to Say About the Proposed BQX Connector Street Car

2017-11-21T16:30:00-05:00

In this video from BRIC TV, hear what Brooklyn and Queens residents have to say about the proposed BQX Connector, a water-front streetcar that would connect the boroughs.

What will the proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) trolley mean for the neighborhoods it travels through? We hear opinions pro and con from local residents, commuters, small business owners, and an urban planner.

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'LoopNYC', a Proposal For Driverless Expressways Across Manhattan Alongside a 13-Mile Pedestrian Park

2017-07-19T15:30:00-04:00

LoopNYC is an ambitious urban planning proposal from architecture/engineering firm EDG in which lanes on Manhattan's major cross-streets (14th, 23rd, 42nd 57th, 86th and 110th) as well as lanes on the FDR and West Side Highway are reserved for self-driving, autonomous cars. EDG claims that these specialized "fast-lanes" would allow a commute from midtown to downtown and back in just 11 minuted, down from 40 minutes currently.

Also part of the proposal, LoopNYC has Broadway and Park Avenue completely blanketed in a public, pedestrian-only park. Running from Battery Park to Union Square, then Splitting up Park Ave and Broadway until 59th Street, the park would allow a car-free route from Lower through Midtown Manhattan.

Architecture/engineering firm Edg has created a proposal for "Loop NYC," a driverless transit plan that would free up nearly all of Broadway and Park Avenue for park space, reclaiming 24 miles of street to be used as uninterrupted walking paths and bike lanes.

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Check Out This Crazy "Big Bend" Skyscraper Proposal for Midtown Manhattan

2017-03-17T16:30:00-04:00

The Big Bend is a new skyscraper proposal from modern architecture and design firm Oiio that calls itself the "longest building in the world."

In response to the swathe of supertall luxury residential towers rising in New York, local studio Oiio has proposed a conceptual skyscraper that loops over to boast length rather than height. The Big Bend would be formed from a very thin structure that curves at the top and returns to the ground

If constructed, the Big Bend would not only be the "longest" building, but would also be the third tallest in the world, and the tallest in NYC at 2,000 feet.

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Check Out Some of These Ambitious Ideas to Help Tackle NYC’s Growing Population Problem

2016-11-03T11:42:16-04:00

If you’ve been on a subway lately, you know that New York City’s infrastructure is already beyond capacity. And guess what — the population is expected to rise from about 8.2 million to 9 million by 2040.

With that in mind, Crain’s asked 12 architecture, design and real estate firms to conjure some big ideas to deal with the projected crunch.

Their responses ranged from SLCE Architects suggestion of adding multi-use buildings to underused schoolyards, to Dattner Architects proposal to convert waste-transfer stations into eco-friendly fuel producers.

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This Gondola Proposal Could Connect Staten Island to Bayonne For More Efficient Transit

2016-09-28T11:55:00-04:00

In an effort to reduce transit times and congestion into Lower Manhattan from Staten Island, a Gondola has been proposed by design firm Leitner-Poma of America that would connect Elm Park to Bayonne alongside the Bayonne Bridge.

[&hellip] the route was chosen because it is the most efficient in terms of cost, total length and travel time. Total travel time from Elm Park to the World Trade Center PATH station would be 33 minutes, including a 6-minute gondola ride.

Check out the full article to read more about the proposal.

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First Look at the Official Lowline Underground Park Proposal in Full

2016-09-20T10:32:41-04:00

The Lowline is an urban enrichment program that plans to place a naturally lit underground park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Originally based on the success of the The High Line, co-founders Dan Barasch and James Ramsey have been planning the park for several years, and have only recently been given the chance to submit their proposal on how to use the uncontested underground space.

The New York City Economic Development Corp. (EDC) this past summer conditionally approved a plan to turn an abandoned trolley station below Delancey Street into the world’s first underground park. Now, for the first time, we’re getting a look at the winning proposal to create the Lowline on the Lower East Side.

Check out the full 154 page proposal for more details.

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Proposed Mega-Project in Red Hook Would Make Hudson Yards Look Like Legos

2016-09-13T10:06:07-04:00

Engineering and construction firm AECOM has proposed a massive waterfront redevelopment project for Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood.

The ambitious project envisions over 45,000 new units of housing, commercial buildings, infrastructure and a new 1 train tunnel from lower Manhattan.

If the project comes to fruition, a new residential neighborhood almost double the size of Battery Park City and several times as large as Hudson Yards on Manhattan's far West Side—the biggest development project currently underway in the city—would be created.

Check out the full article for more info.

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VIDEO: Proposal For Floating Glass Cube Restaurant at Hudson River's Glenwood Power Plant

2016-09-03T09:45:31-04:00

Big Foot Developers recently proposed this crazy conceptual rendering of a glass cube restaurant suspended by steel cables above the abandoned Glenwood Power Plant on the Hudson River.

The floating restaurant is a restaurant that hangs from two smoke stacks of the historic Glenwood power plant in the Hudson river and gives the people of New York an unpredictable new dinner experience. It's a restaurant that makes your blood rush from the excitement of being floating up high, that fills your emotional heart with the incredible views of the city from a point of view you can almost never get and the exclusiveness of being in a unique and select top restaurant in the world.

Check out the full article to read more about the proposal.

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New Department of Transportation Proposal Could Expand Brooklyn Bridge With Upper Pedestrian Level

2016-08-09T10:52:33-04:00

If you have ever tried to bike across the Brooklyn Bridge, you know just how unsafe it is to both bikers and pedestrians. Absent-minded tourists often wander directly into the bike lanes, causing collisions and injury. Locals have to walk into bike lanes to avoid crowds of tourists stopped in the middle of the walkways. Something has to change.

A new proposal from the New York City Department of Transportation would make the existing walkway almost entirely bike lanes, while moving the bulk of pedestrians to a new platfom above the current automotive lanes.

The idea is to widen the pathway by building on top of the steel girders that run over the bridge’s main roadways. Most of the wooden deck for walking and biking is four feet below the girders, so the expansions would be at a higher grade than the current path. Trottenberg said DOT will also explore expanding the concrete approaches to the wooden deck on both the Brooklyn and Manhattan sides.

The Brooklyn Bridge has certainly been altered over its lifetime to accomodate changing traffic patterns and means of transportation. With bike ridership on the rise, is it time to prioritize bike lanes?

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Sustainability Could Reach New Heights With New York City (Steady) State Project

2016-08-06T10:07:30-04:00

Green skyscrapers may very well become the norm of a self-sufficient future thanks to New York City (Steady) State Project. Terraform, an independent urban research center headquartered in NYC, began this project to investigate the constant tug of war between the approaching need for sustainable practices and stubborn political boundaries, and whether this tension can be relieved.

The team, led by Michael Sorkin, hopes to inspire debate, design and development by getting information out of the hands of environmental scientists and into the hands of civilians around the globe through a series of encyclopedia-style publications. Each volume focuses on one of the key aspects of sustainable urbanism: food, waste, air, water, climate, and movement.

Check out Terraform to learn more about New York (Steady) State Project and their other urban projects.

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