‘For a whole year, this place has been like a graveyard,’ one Bronx worker told El Diario of the area around Yankee Stadium. The venue reopened to fans last week for the first time since the pandemic struck.
Cycling advocates see promise in recent city initiatives but say they’d like to see the administration take more aggressive action overall when it comes to transforming New York’s streets.
In 2017, the city’s Parks Department issued 8,100 athletic permits for 877,000 hours of athletic time on DPR’s 800 ballfields—satisfying most but nowhere near all the demand for space. There are indications that pressures around parks permits are increasing.
The neighborhood has been in the middle of a tug-of-war between some local leaders and citywide policy over how far to go to accomodate bikers.
Corey Johnson also says he plans to introduce legislation that would require the Department of Transportation to issue a ‘a comprehensive master plan for city streets’ every five years, He also wants to ‘reimagine’ the BQE.
‘Undoubtedly, the U.S Open is positive for the city. We just wish the USTA was as involved in promoting the vibrancy of our communities as we believe they should be.’
The majority of the city’s designated bike lanes are unprotected: basically nothing more than around thee-feet wide stretches of asphalt marked by strips of paint and an occasional bike lane symbol. That has to change.
‘Every year segregated high schools ask the PSAL for more sports teams and are denied. Why is that allowed to happen?’
The case cites over a hundred public schools without any sports teams, of which Black and Latino students are twice as likely to attend.
The saga of the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium in the Philippines illustrates the possibility—and potential pitfalls—of using heritage preservation as a tool to resist gentrification.