Who knows? I know more high voltage lines are being connected into the city from Canadian Hydroelectric plants all the way to the city. There are several high profile wind farms being built in NY and NJ waters. I’d also assume there are countless solar projects going on that aren’t big news.
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As it stands atm, the Niagara Hydroelectric Stations generate 25% of all power produced in the state, which is really significant coming from one station, but NY is also a fairly small state. The rest of NYs energy is powered from natural gas or nuclear.
Elon spotted in NYC - visiting Lincoln Center. This guy is the GOAT - his Twitter purchase has become a real game changer. If I was anywhere near Lincoln Center that day; it would have been a honor to shake his hand.
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Yes, let’s annihilate affordable housing for an EFFING garden. A garden, instead of a place for 123 humans to live in a crowded city. They need to annihilate community input. Seriously.
And they’ll be asking why there’s still a housing crisis in the city lol
The NIYMBY’S strike again. These people have no brains and think that every land including Central Park is going to be redeveloped into mega skyscrapers. Look at what happened at “One 45”, They really need to get a life already. Fight something that actually matters.
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Oh God. 
It’ll be interesting to see how this works, that intersection is always busy and the traffic has to flow somewhere.
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Interesting challenge. I live in the area, and always wondered how to improve this intersection.
I’m all for a better pedestrian experience, specially now that Vanderbilt became such a pedestrian success.
But I’m afraid if it’s not done right, it will create more chaos around the neighborhood. As the article mention the traffic on Flatbush is really heavy at any time. How do you re-route such volume of cars without disrupting the streets around?
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What if they just made the outer ring (Plaza St) wider to accomodate the traffic lanes that would disappear in closing down Grand Army Plaza. This would really just make the roundabout bigger in that sense but it would also allow for the Greenmarket to be joined with the overall oval.
To be honest I don’t think I’ve ever really seen how crisscross the entire thing is, it looks like a disaster from above.
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Widening the outer circle will change the character of the neighborhood, and I’m not sure it will be in a good way - right now the feel of those streets is very quiet, very residential. People living on those blocks will get really upset if that changes
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That’s very true, but I feel like there’s no “good” way that would redirect traffic that would come from closing down Grand Army Plaza.
I do see the point of how widening the outer ring would bring disruption to the feel of the neighborhood surrounding it, but what if a buffer(whether that be a much wider sidewalk with more greenery) was made between the increased ring width and the outer structures?
You are right - there is not magic bullet solution - I like the idea of widening the sidewalks
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Atleast not an easy solution, as I have seen proposals to divert traffic below the plaza, which wouldn’t be easy at all.
But I think “joining” both the inner and outer rings and widening the sidewalks closer to the surrounding buildings with an added buffer is a good solution, atleast it sounds like one, technics always make things more difficult in the end.
Yeah something like that, if anything needs to go under the park the East Pkwy can.
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