Rethinking the Suburban Mall
Good community planning looks to find new uses for old spaces, Rob Lane, a senior fellow for community design at RPA, told the Hudson Valley's Journal News. “There are a whole set of building types...
View ArticleCan Penn Station Be Fixed Without Moving MSG?
In a thoughtful New York Times op-ed, Robert W. Previdi, a former New York City Transit executive, offers some excellent ideas for improving New York's dismal Penn Station. Signage that would actually...
View ArticleOnly a New Penn Station Will Do
"If done right, a new Penn Station will be a project that reorients our city and region to address the transportation and economic development challenges of the next century," Regional Plan Association...
View ArticleEnvisioning a New Penn Station: Next Steps
In the summer of 2013, at the urging of Regional Plan Association, Municipal Art Society and many others, the New York City Council voted to limit Madison Square Garden’s permit to operate on top of...
View ArticleClock Ticking, Bloomberg Seeks Council Approval of East Midtown Rezoning Plan
Many leading figures in the real estate industry, and many construction unions, support the plan, as does the Regional Plan Association, an influential private research organization. But a broad array...
View ArticleEast Midtown Rezoning - City Council Hearing
RPA testimony before the New York City Council on October 22, 2013, in support of East Midtown Rezoning ULURP C 130248 ZMM; N 130247 ZRM By almost any measure—jobs, office space, salaries, taxes,...
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New Zoning in Newark, Made [Reasonably] User-Friendly
In one of his last acts as mayor of the City of Newark, Cory A. Booker has released draft revised zoning & land use regulations for public comment. RPA has worked closely with the city to make the...
View ArticleOut With the New?
The problem, according to RPA spokesperson Wendy Pollack, is that when the Garden was built in the 1960s, entombing the train station underneath it, rail transit was thought to be the stuff of the...
View ArticleNYC Race Focuses On Income Gap, but How Much Can a Mayor Do?
"Great as New York is, it is not actually the federal government," RPA senior fellow Julia Vitullo-Martin told NPR's All Things Considered. The mayor "does not control the Federal Reserve, much less...
View ArticleGrants Awarded to Help Build Affordable Housing Near Transit
NEW YORK – A total of $100,000 in grants will be awarded to four organizations in New York and Connecticut that are planning to build affordable housing within walking distance of subways, commuter...
View ArticleNew Options for Transit-Friendly Development in New Jersey's Union County
Eight communities along a busy corridor in New Jersey's Union County have the potential to accommodate extensive mixed-use redevelopment on more than 1,000 acres of transit-oriented sites, according to...
View ArticleIncomes drop in Bergen and Passaic counties
“…certain urban areas, including Jersey City and Hoboken, “have become much more affluent over the last two decades,” Christopher Jones, RPA's vice president for research, told the Record. And...
View ArticleNew Haven Rail Line Faces Decades of Disruption, Risk of Outages Without...
RPA Study Projects Decades of Disruptions to the New Haven Line Without New Investment Years of Deferred Maintenance Raises Risk of Unplanned Outages;$3.6 Billion Needed to Restore Line to Full...
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Study: New Haven Line Faces Decades of Disruption Without New Investment
Photo: MTA / Kevin OrtizThe New Haven Line needs such substantial repair work that at the current pace of investment it will take two decades to restore the line to full operating capacity, a new study...
View ArticleRedevelopment of the Domino Sugar Site
Domino Sugar Project, Testimony Before the City Planning Commission, January 22, 2014 My name is L. Nicolas Ronderos and I’m Regional Plan Association’s New York Director. RPA aims to improve the New...
View ArticleRentals on historic pace in New Jersey
"The Millennial Generation is marrying later, having fewer children and driving less, so there's much more demand for smaller units that are near transit," said Christopher Jones, vice president for...
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