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December 6, 2007
NYC is Good for Walkies
Gothamist
We probably didn't need a Brookings Institution study to confirm that New York is a highly walkable city, but we did learn something from it. Did you know that one of the most-walkable neighborhoods is "Atlantic Yards?!"
The walkable NYC places mentioned are: (Metropolitan area) Downtown/Wall Street, Midtown, Brooklyn/Atlantic Yards....
However, there may have been some problems with the study:
The study's author, Christopher B. Leinberger, admits there are issues with the methodology, namely that walkable places are weighted the same in different areas, even though Midtown Manhattan is 30 times bigger than the DC area's Reston Center.
NoLandGrab: One additional methodological problem might be the study's inclusion of places that don't actually exist, except in glossy marketing and public relations brochures. It's possible that they meant "Vanderbilt Yards," though that not-so-walkable site is surrounded by chain-link fence and poses the risk of one's getting run over by a train.
Given the area's walkability, however, one has to wonder why plans for Atlantic Yards call for 3,600+ permanent parking spaces and an enormous "interim surface parking lot."
Posted by lumi at December 6, 2007 10:41 AM