Placemaking on the Upper East Side

By Brad Aaron

Tuesday evening, Project for Public Spaces held a "placemaking" community workshop for Manhattan's Upper East Side, featuring PP founder and president Fred Kent. Streetsblog regular BicyclesOnly was there and files this report.

Kent gave a presentation to about 50 citizen and community activists from the East Side regarding the efforts in New York City and elsewhere to redesign urban space for the needs of people and communities over the moving of traffic. The event was organized by State Senator Liz Krueger.

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