In a lengthy and at times lively meeting Tuesday night, the Hoboken City Council heard public comment and debated the Hoboken Terminal and Yards Redevelopment, before voting 8-1 to approve the plan. Councilmembers Bhalla, Castellano, Cunningham, Doyle, Giattino, Mello, Occhipinti, and Russo voted in favor, while councilmember Mason offered the lone dissenting vote. Ann Brady,…
In 1999, the owner of the NJ Devils hockey team proposed to build a $350 million arena atop Hoboken Terminal and the rail yards: The proposal, which has been in the planning for nearly two years, envisions the creation of a new 3.3 million-square-foot complex called Hoboken Station on the riverfront amid the Beaux-Arts style…
At the 2014 Summit for New York, the Municipal Art Society and Regional Plan Association presented the latest development in their Penn 2023 campaign to remake Penn Station. The 42-page report, Madison Square Garden: Shaping the Future of West Midtown, highlights two options for the future of the station and arena, along with a feasibility…
Four years ago, when the Christie Administration cancelled ARC, the project to build two new trans-Hudson tunnels, Yonah Freemark of The Transport Politic suggested that NJ Transit could borrow an idea from Paris’ RER and increase passenger capacity on its existing trains by removing some seats: Whereas New Jersey Transit carries roughly 275,000 riders a…
In February 2014, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Weehawken announced plans to jointly launch a bicycle share system using bikes from Nextbike, a German company that operates bike share systems in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. In June 2014, the Wall…
In 2010, Hoboken adopted a Complete Streets policy to make streets throughout the mile-square city meet federal and state standards for multi-modal street design and traffic control, ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines on public rights-of-way, and balance the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and motorists. At a public meeting…
New York City owes much to the elevator, the engineering achievement that made quick travel beyond a few stories feasible. The vertical advance reached a fever-pitch by the early 20th century and has continued unabated ever since, giving the city some of its most iconic landmarks and stunning views. From 2011-2013, I undertook a project…
I transformed CFA Institute’s professional programs with a digital-first approach, and built a social media presence named #1 in finance by Association Trends.
Jonathan Harris thinks the Internet is in the midst of a crisis: The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all look the same. We use the same tools and social networks, fitting into the same templates, designed by companies to maximize page views and profits. Most online experiences are made, like…
John Lanchester: There’s a romance attending on those jobs, the ones that keep things running all night long: it’s part of the fascination of big cities, the sense that something is always going on somewhere, even in the smallest of small hours. Bakers and police and nurses and cab drivers and market porters all belong…
Throughout the arrival and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I gathered photos posted on Twitter of the storm’s impact from above New York. The pictures paint a portrait of a deeply resilient city preparing, withstanding, and recovering from the devastating effects of an unprecedented storm. Fri 11/2, 2:28 pm – Getting Back to Work View of…
Those are the words of Miep Gies—who died yesterday at 100—when she gave Otto Frank his daughter’s diary on his return to Amsterdam from Auschwitz in 1945. His wife, Edith, and daughters Margot and Anne, died in Bergen-Belsen, but Anne’s diary is our window into her family’s life while hiding from the Nazis in the…
Steven Walling of ReadWriteWeb polled the site’s readers on the perceived value of technology pilots. A comment on the article suggested the generally small size of pilots makes them irrelevant to large organizations: Interaction among workers in a tiny subset of your organization isn’t a fair test. However, of the 84 responses to Steven’s poll,…
Steve Jobs, speaking at the D8 conference, explains how Apple chooses the technologies to include in their products: Apple is a company that doesn’t have the most resources of everybody in the world, and the way we’ve succeeded is by choosing what horses to ride really carefully – technically. We try to look for these…