Making Headway on the Perfect New York Street

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12 street view [Making Headway on the Perfect New York Street]( Small steps toward safer streets and fewer rats. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Justin Davidson, Courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation Two years ago, frustrated by the desultory and scattershot progress in making New York’s streets safer and more pleasant, Curbed asked a team of volunteer architects and consultants to imagine [a thoroughly reengineered]( Third Avenue as a model for the rest of the city. The stretch they came up with seemed like a fantasy then and doesn’t exist now, but a different section of the avenue [is getting a makeover](, and many of the elements we featured are appearing elsewhere, adding up to creeping yet visible change. It can’t come soon enough: [Drivers still slam into pedestrians, bikes, and cars with appalling regularity and horrific consequences](. [Last year, car crashes killed 267 people](, including 132 people who were just walking along. And that doesn’t count the maimings, brain damage, and trauma among those who survived. This year is shaping up to be marginally less lethal. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [A Place, at Last, for Everything (Including the Teenager and the Shoes) A family thought they’d outgrown their apartment, until they met the architects Ideas of Order. Before and after photos for what they did.]( By Wendy Goodman [The Listings Edit Newsletter Is Back! Sign up to get The Listings Edit, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York City.]( By Nora DeLigter [My Morning on the Beam Rockefeller Center’s 1932 stunt photo is now its $25 tourist ride, minus lunch.]( By Zach Schiffman [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved