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PlaNYC 2030: One Year Later
On Earth Day 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a wide-ranging plan to make the city more environmentally friendly as it expands to meet the needs of 1 million more residents by 2030. His PlaNYC offered 127 specific proposals on land use, transportation, energy, reducing greenhouse gases and other vital issues. For Earth Day 2008, Sustainability Watch, a joint project of Gotham Gazette and the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development, asked experts to assess the plan -- its successes and failures, what it does and does not do -- and what the next steps are in the long-term effort to create a livable city for 9 million people.
Congestion pricing has come and gone. And now advocates and experts examine what could come of some of the other 126 initiatives in the administration's PlaNYC in our second installment of Sustainability Watch.
Toxic Town May 26, 2009
New Yorkers see the smog in the air and garbage on the street. But many of the city's most polluted areas struggle for notice and cleanup. We look at three of them. By Gotham Gazette Staff.
On the Gowanus, Say 'No' to Superfund May 26, 2009
David Von Spreckelsen, a senior vice president of Toll Brothers, which hopes to build along the Gowanus canal, argues the city has a better plan. By David Von Spreckelsen.
Brooklyn's Lavender Lake Needs Superfund May 26, 2009
Joshua Verleun, an attorney with Riverkeeper, writes that the Gowanus Canal area should be designated a Superfund site. By Joshua S. Verleun .
The Brooklyn-Queens Border: As Polluted as Ever May 26, 2009
The estuary separating Brooklyn and Queens has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the country's most polluted waterways. Residents, advocates and others have long pleaded for a cleanup -- to no avail. Is that finally about to change? By Courtney Gross.
Staten Island's Toxic Stew May 26, 2009
This area of approximately 5.2 square miles includes more than 20 sites the government or residents consider contaminated -- many of them close to apartment buildings and houses. In March, the community learned of further dangers. By Melissa Checker.
City Gears Up for Green Buildings Apr 23, 2009
Perfectly timed for Earth Day, the Bloomberg administration and the City Council introduced a package of legislation yesterday that seeks to improve energy efficiency in large commercial buildings and could require about 20,000 buildings to improve their use of electricity.
The plan hopes to reduce the city's carbon footprint by 5 percent -- roughly comparable to the carbon emissions generated by Oakland, Calif.
A combination of updating the energy code and creating efficiency and lighting benchmarks, the energy plan already has racked up criticism from a wide array of interest groups, including the real estate industry and tenants rights advocates. Many are concerned over the financial impact of the legislation.
By Courtney Gross.More Stories from Gotham Gazette...
- City Gears Up for Green Buildings (Apr 2009)
- Stated Meeting: Shutting Engines At Schools (Jan 2009)
- Working for a Greener Harlem (Nov 2008)
- Rebuilding Ground Zero: Long-term Costs of Short-term Planning (Sep 2008)
- Climate Change Could Threaten a Green Willets Point (Aug 2008)
- How the City Has Reduced Soot (Jul 2008)
- The Past and Future of Sustainability (Jun 2008)
- A Community Plan for the 'Highway to Nowhere' (May 2008)
- A Smoother Ride for Cycling in the City (May 2008)
- Making Black Cars Green (Apr 2008)
- An Unknown Urban Forest (Apr 2008)
- Reclaiming the City's Abandoned Land (Apr 2008)
- Blocking the Sun: Solar in the City (Apr 2008)
- A More Secure Way to Feed to City (Apr 2008)
- Cleaning Up a Creek (Apr 2008)
- The Need for a Parks Plan (Apr 2008)
- As City Grows, Affordable Housing Shrinks (Apr 2008)
- Making Zero Waste Part of the Plan (Apr 2008)
- Jumpstarting the Greenways System (Apr 2008)
- Bridging New York's Transit Gap (Apr 2008)
- Is the Long-term Sustainability Plan Sustainable? (Apr 2008)
- Reclaiming New York's Blighted Waters (Apr 2008)
- Street Closures and the Battle of Prince Street (Apr 2008)
- A City by the Sea -- or Under It? (Mar 2008)
- Concerns Grow but the Grass Doesn't (Feb 2008)
- The Race to Develop a Toxic Waterway (Feb 2008)
- Next Steps for Congestion Pricing (Jan 2008)
- Setting Standards for Green Neighborhoods (Jan 2008)
- Creating People-Friendly Streets (Nov 2007)
- Breathing Easier in 2030 and Beyond (Nov 2007)
- Greening City Schoolyards (Nov 2007)
- Cleaning Up New York’s Buildings (Oct 2007)
- Storm Warnings (Sep 2007)
- How Clean (or Dirty) Is Our Air? (Sep 2007)
- Making Coney Island Green (Sep 2007)


