{"id":246579646,"date":"2012-10-24T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=246579646"},"modified":"2012-10-24T22:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T22:20:46","slug":"improved-new-york-streetscapes-give-businesses-a-boost-mayors-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=246579646","title":{"rendered":"Improved New York streetscapes give businesses a boost, mayor&#8217;s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY PETE DONOHUE \/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<br \/>\nBusiness booms along the streets and avenues the city has refashioned with plazas, protected bicycle lanes and Select Bus Service routes, according to a report Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s administration released Tuesday.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOn 8th and 9th Aves., between 23rd and 31st Sts., the city created a curbside bicycle lane that is separated from traffic by parking spots and pedestrian safety islands. Sales receipts for businesses were up as much as 49% three years after the project was completed, compared with the full year before the changes, according to the report, &quot;Measuring the Street: New Metrics for 21st Century Sts.&quot; The boroughwide increase was just 3%, the study says.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/-article-1.1190648\">https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/-article-1.1190648<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY PETE DONOHUE \/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Business booms along the streets and avenues the city has refashioned with plazas, protected bicycle lanes and Select Bus Service routes, according to a report Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s administration released Tuesday. &#8230; On 8th and 9th Aves., between 23rd and 31st Sts., the city created a curbside bicycle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=246579646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Improved New York streetscapes give businesses a boost, mayor&#8217;s office says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246579646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246579646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246579646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246579646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246579646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246579646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246579646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}