Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!)

The OG Urbanist Youtuber! Prolific Streets Documentarian since the late 1990s. All great things : biking, walking, transit, school streets, LTNs & more!

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#Sneckdown & #Daylighting!

Looking certain for a weekend snow event in the northeast with a foot+ predicted for DC, Philly, NYC, etc.

A great time to document how we can put traffic calming (daylighting!) on our streets using "nature's tracing paper"!

Get BEFORE photos now! @StreetsblogNYC @StreetsblogUSA @OpenPlans

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Want more open streets?
Public plazas?
School streets?
Pedestrian spaces?

See our 5 minute segment of "Close Encounters of the 34th Ave Kind" looking at Donald Appleyard's extraordinary research that explains how you have more community & friends the fewer cars on your street!

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@JackKaplanNY Those lanes are far from complete. There's no "in record fashion" going on.

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@francesca_kms Win-wins! I do it because I get exercise and most trips are same as transit and faster than cars! Plus I enjoy the air flowing thru my hair.

I like to do it because it is green living, but honestly the efficiency and happiness it brings is first.

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Featuing @bfurnas @34_ave @JimRockaway @NualafromJH and so many others!!

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

Want more open streets?
Public plazas?
School streets?
Pedestrian spaces?

See our 5 minute segment of "Close Encounters of the 34th Ave Kind" looking at Donald Appleyard's extraordinary research that explains how you have more community & friends the fewer cars on your street!

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

Bruce also passed along that the Livable Streets 2.0 version is currently on sale! @DocAppleyard

Find Livable Streets 2.0 here: https://t.co/X9L4rmuH4J
Save 30% by using the code SOCSC30.

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"His SF studies revealed the hidden harms of cars and a simple but then radical truth: the more fast-moving traffic on a street, the less life happened—fewer friendships, weaker ties to neighbors, less sense of the street as shared, home territory rather than just a conduit for cars." - Appleyard's son, Bruce, @DocAppleyard own words.

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Okay internets, which of these poster thumbnails are best for my @34_ave documentary "Close Encounters of the 34th Avenue Kind: The Story of NYC's Best Open Street"?

Screening requests are growing. Hopefully coming to a city near you!

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@UrbanCourtyard Very interesting. I must visit this magical place.

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@_KennyUong_ They are all lieing beasts.

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If this is successful then maybe the next step of action is for advocates to sue for all traffic in NYC be eliminated on every street, every intersection because fast-moving traffic is everywhere.

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Disabled NYC residents sue to block West Side bike lane that would force them to cross fast-moving cyclist traffic to reach taxis and buses—but the bike lobby claims the redesign actually *helps* accessibility. Hard… #NYC #BikeMandate #ADA #Accessibility
https://t.co/4toVPw3Mpw

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The funny story: when I was in the midst of editing and considering what to name it I was going thru old photos and then I recalled posting that shot about two years ago and said it looks like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and then ➡️ “third” = 34th Avenue.

I thought “it can’t be that easy”!! And for a few weeks considered so many other titles. But nothing seemed to come close. So it won - all due to the photo!!

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

Okay internets, which of these poster thumbnails are best for my @34_ave documentary "Close Encounters of the 34th Avenue Kind: The Story of NYC's Best Open Street"?

Screening requests are growing. Hopefully coming to a city near you!

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

@extrapostage @34_ave Right now it all depends on who contacts us. We’re open to screenings everywhere.

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@JimRockaway @34_ave I personally ❤️ the “You are NOT ALONE” one, but kids these days won’t connect the tagline to the original 🎥, if they connect at all!!!

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If you are interested in a screening in your city, read this @Streetfilms blog entry and contact us if you think you have a place and can get people to a theater/lecture center/bar/screening place!

Thanks!

https://t.co/FJDdkau8PC

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@SwiftySanders That’s a party full of #freshKermit painters!

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@PhilSustainable @bfurnas LOL!

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Oh you know just those nice NYC pedestrian spaces that cranks have been saying no one will sit in, eat in or visit since 2009 because it’s too noisy, dangerous and too polluted!

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

And they’ll use the same argument to fight it until the end of time!

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

Oh you know just those nice NYC pedestrian spaces that cranks have been saying no one will sit in, eat in or visit since 2009 because it’s too noisy, dangerous and too polluted!

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

And they’ll use the same argument to fight it until the end of time!

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this one is going on the vision board 🤩