Long-term Energy and Emissions Savings Potential in New York City Buildings

This chapter recounts how New York City Transit Authority rail service planners Peter Cafiero, Chuck Kirchner, Glenn Lunden, and Jon Melnick resurrected the Second Avenue subway in 1988. Even though the Transit Authority was in the early stages of its 1987–91 capital program, the planners' bosses wanted to start getting ready for the next program, which would run from 1992 to 1996. The first step would be to create a document that assessed the authority's long-term needs and identified projects that would rehabilitate the subway system, increase ridership, improve productivity, and expand system capacity. One proposal the planners wrote to address the Lexington Avenue's problems was an idea that the MTA planner Bob Olmsted had first championed in 1975—a Second Avenue subway north of 63rd Street. As the Second Avenue subway proposal moved up the Transit Authority hierarchy, the authority's president, David Gunn, agreed that the time was right to begin thinking about expanding the subway system. Before he could devote significant resources to advancing the Second Avenue subway, however, it would have to compete with other potential megaprojects under discussion at the MTA's agencies.

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Urban Land Recapitalization and Regional Unified Transit Network – an Imperative Action for the New York City Long-Term Competitiveness

International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2019 (ICSIC) ◽

10.1680/icsic.64669.505 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

J.C. Venturi ◽

E. Chao ◽

C. Calvin

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Urban Land ◽

Transit Network

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The transition from injection to non-injection drug use: long-term outcomes among heroin and cocaine users in New York City

Addiction ◽

10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01764.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 102 (5) ◽

pp. 778-785 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Don C. Des Jarlais ◽

Kamyar Arasteh ◽

Theresa Perlis ◽

Holly Hagan ◽

Douglas D. Heckathorn ◽

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Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Drug Use ◽

Injection Drug Use ◽

York City ◽

Injection Drug ◽

Long Term Outcomes ◽

Cocaine Users

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Exploring Walking Behavior in the Streets of New York City Using Hourly Pedestrian Count Data

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12197863 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (19) ◽

pp. 7863

Author(s):

Jae Min Lee

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Count Data ◽

York City ◽

Traffic Patterns ◽

Walking Behavior ◽

Pedestrian Counting ◽

Pedestrian Traffic ◽

Land Use Development

This paper explores hourly automated pedestrian count data of seven locations in New York City to understand pedestrian walking patterns in cities. Due to practical limitations, such patterns have been studied conceptually; few researchers have explored walking as a continuous, long-term activity. Adopting an automated pedestrian counting method, we documented and observed people walking on city streets and found that unique pedestrian traffic patterns reflect land use, development intensity, and neighborhood characteristics. We observed a threshold of thermal comfort in outdoor activities. People tend to seek shade and avoid solar radiation stronger than 1248 Wh/m2 at an average air temperature of 25 °C. Automated collection of detailed pedestrian count data provides a new opportunity for urban designers and transportation planners to understand how people walk and to improve our cities to be less dependent on the automobile.

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Derailed: The Postwar End of New York City Subway Expansion

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144219896578 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 009614421989657

Author(s):

Jonathan English

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Public Transportation ◽

York City ◽

Labor Cost ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Aging Infrastructure ◽

Second World

New York City witnessed the construction of one of the largest subway systems in the world in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Expansion virtually ceased thereafter, and New York’s public transportation has since relied on a legacy of aging infrastructure. The explanation of this unexpected cessation is key to understanding the city’s current transit problems, and also offers valuable lessons for other cities experiencing infrastructure construction booms. Identifying the 1951 bond issue as a key turning point, this article argues that there are three convergent factors that brought about the end of subway expansion after the Second World War: political leadership distracted by disputes over administration and unable to plan for the long term; financial constraints imposed by construction and labor-cost inflation, the strained municipal budget, and declining ridership; and the New York transit authorities’ indifference to the growing demographic, political, and symbolic significance of the rapidly growing suburbs.

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Lower extremity injuries at the New York City Marathon

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association ◽

10.7547/87507315-87-1-34 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 87 (1) ◽

pp. 34-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

MA Caselli ◽

SJ Longobardi

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Lower Extremity ◽

York City ◽

Ankle Injuries ◽

Marathon Runners ◽

Lower Extremity Injuries ◽

Running Injuries ◽

Extremity Injuries

The purpose of this study was to determine the type and frequency of lower extremity running injuries incurred by athletes participating in the New York City Marathon. A survey was conducted of 265 athletes presenting to medical stations for podiatric care during the 1994 New York City Marathon. The results of the survey indicated that the most common injuries occurring in marathon runners were corns, calluses, blisters, muscle cramps, acute knee and ankle injuries, plantar fasciitis, and metatarsalgia. An inverse relationship was observed between the number of miles trained per week and the number of injuries. These findings are consistent with long-term studies of running injuries.

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Outbreaks of influenza in long-term care facilities in New York City (NYC), 2001-2004

American Journal of Infection Control ◽

10.1016/j.ajic.2005.04.121 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 33 (5) ◽

pp. e99-e100 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Rubin ◽

B. Nivin ◽

J. Ackelsberg

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Long Term Care ◽

Term Care ◽

Care Facilities

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The 1960s Drought and the Subsequent Shift to a Wetter Climate in the Catskill Mountains Region of the New York City Watershed*

Journal of Climate ◽

10.1175/jcli-d-11-00518.1 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 25 (19) ◽

pp. 6721-6742 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Richard Seager ◽

Neil Pederson ◽

Yochanan Kushnir ◽

Jennifer Nakamura ◽

Stephanie Jurburg

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

North America ◽

Atlantic Ocean ◽

York City ◽

Catskill Mountains ◽

Coupled Models ◽

Atlantic Sector ◽

The 1960S

Abstract The precipitation history over the last century in the Catskill Mountains region that supplies water to New York City is studied. A severe drought occurred in the early to mid-1960s followed by a wet period that continues. Interannual variability of precipitation in the region is related to patterns of atmospheric circulation variability in the midlatitude east Pacific–North America–west Atlantic sector with no link to the tropics. Associated SST variations in the Atlantic are consistent with being forced by the anomalous atmospheric flow rather than being causal. In winter and spring the 1960s drought was associated with a low pressure anomaly over the midlatitude North Atlantic Ocean and northerly subsiding flow over the greater Catskills region that would likely suppress precipitation. The cold SSTs offshore during the drought are consistent with atmospheric forcing of the ocean. The subsequent wet period was associated with high pressure anomalies over the Atlantic Ocean and ascending southerly flow over eastern North America favoring increased precipitation and a strengthening of the Northern Hemisphere storm track. Neither the drought nor the subsequent pluvial are simulated in sea surface temperature–forced atmosphere GCMs. The long-term wetting is also not simulated as a response to changes in radiative forcing by coupled models. It is concluded that past precipitation variability in the region, including the drought and pluvial, were most likely caused by internal atmospheric variability. Such events are unpredictable and a drought like the 1960s one could return while the long-term wetting trend need not continue—conclusions that have implications for management of New York City’s water resources.

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