Under the BQE is a participatory community planning initiative by Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny). The project resulted in the design of a neighborhood-scale pedestrian and traffic safety plan near downtown Brooklyn. In October 2012, it was announced that the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) would begin the process of formally researching and implementing many of the AFHny team’s proposals.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) was started by the Regional Plan Association in the 1930s and completed by Robert Moses in 1964. The mixed legacy of the BQE is well understood by New Yorkers who live, work, and commute through its bifurcated neighborhoods daily.
In the Wallabout, Fort Greene, and Clinton Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the BQE cuts an elevated swathe along Park Avenue from Navy to Steuben Streets. The 2010 census shows that over 37,000 residents live in the areas north and south of this zone. The perception of a visual and physical barrier of the BQE overpass is emphasized by neglected traffic circumstances on Park Avenue that unwittingly promote a speed corridor bypass, severing the neighborhood and challenging pedestrians, mass-transit customers, cyclists, and motorists alike. At the same time, the BQE provides covered parking as a year-round, all-weather amenity to the neighborhood.
In April 2010, AFHny began working with Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (MARP), a non-profit local development corporation associated with the nearby Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District. MARP had already engaged in substantial efforts to study the area, initially for potential parking revenue and programming. MARP also hosted visioning workshops, facilitated by partners SpaceBuster/raumlaborberlin (2009) and Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning (2010), to help the community conceptualize opportunities for the space under the BQE.
AFHny was invited to build upon the visioning workshops and help reconsider the BQE as a broader community asset in addition to covered parking. AFHny volunteers researched the neighborhood, conducted surveys and counts, collected case studies, and began a dialogue with like-minded organizations and experts. This process generated a volume of research and substantial expertise among the volunteers. From these studies, it was clear that before other improvements could be pursued, pedestrian and traffic safety were a priority.
In August of 2011, AFHny began the development of a safety plan for Park Avenue (a 17-block site), keeping in mind that interventions could be made in ways that achieved benefits across various needs (safety, social, economic, environmental). Incorporating feedback from multiple community charettes and other outreach efforts, the team identified areas of concern and generated conceptual proposals for streetscape design, parking and pedestrian zones, and green infrastructure to address these issues.
The proposals were eventually streamlined into a site-wide safety plan. This plan was presented to local stakeholders and the community board, and it was submitted to NYC DOT with a series of recommendations. On June 19, 2012, Community Board 2 Transportation and Public Safety Committee members voted unanimously to support the team’s conceptual safety plan for Park Avenue. Local elected officials soon followed suit. AFHny believes that these suggested improvements are crucial to restoring the north-south crossgrain of the district, strengthening communities along Park Avenue, and to making the BQE less of a liability and more of a true community asset.
















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I'm interested in volunteering at the Clerkenwell Design Week.
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I'd really like to volunteer for this. I'm due in London on the 20th and leave on the 24th so am able to volunteer all 3 days if this is possible. Unfortunately i won't be able to make the meeting as i will be in Manchester.
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Hi Ashley,
I cam across architecture for humanity's "Design like you give a damn 2" publication and became really interested in your organization's work. Being an aspiring undergraduate architectural student at the University of Toronto I want to get involved in your organizations work and see volunteering for your organization as an excellent opportunity to both involve myself in meaningful design work and further my education.
I would love to get involved but cannot seem to view the Toronto chapter's current projects; my own interests lie in the design process, specifically in communicating with communities to meet their needs but would also love to participate in the numerous other facets of your operation.
Being a first year undergraduate, my program skills are currently limited to sketchup, photoshop, InDesign, and the Microsoft office suite but I am looking to develop my skills with BIM software such as revit and autocad. Also,I am currently spending the summer in Edmonton but will be returning to Toronto for the winter and fall terms of 2013-14 and may be spending the summer of 2014 in Toronto.
I hope to hear from you soon and learn more about the amazing opportunities the Toronto chapter has!
Regards,
Anson
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Feel free to jump into the opportunities listed above, especially if you have expertise in certain areas. The team at AFH AKL are still firming up some details about various projects, we will let you know and post them as an 'opportunity' on the Chapter Network.
Cheers,
Bobby
I am working on the next
I am working on the next chapter of Ivy and will update the site when it is done and ready for order. I like it. I like it a lot. You know exactly what you talking about, exactly where other people are coming from on this issue.I glad that I had the fortune to stumble across your blog.www.paymentprocessingsolutions.org
Projecto Green Meeting Space para a APCL - Ponto de situação
Amig@s, a pedido de vários de vós deixamos o ponto de situação do projecto APCL: a primeira fase de trabalhos (ante-projecto) encontra-se concluída. Em Maio daremos arranque à 2ª fase (projecto de execução), e oportunamente entraremos em contacto convosco para que o Green Meeting Space da APCL se torne realidade - do projecto à obra,
Aproveitamos para lançar o apelo: necessitamos fazer angariação de fundos para cobrir despesas com a obra, que queremos concluir até fim de Julho do corrente ano. Estamos a enveredar todos os esforços no sentido de obter materiais a custo reduzido, mas há coisas que terão sempre de ser pagas. A AFHLx está a oferecer o projecto, e a direcção de obra, mas precisamos de verbas para que o projecto se torne realidade.
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I too want to join this course
Hey,I too want to join this course but today it would not be possible so is there any other day when I can come.
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