After years of fighting over dining sheds, bike lanes, and pedestrian-only street closures, Ya-Ting Liu will be the city's “public-realm czar” to oversee it all. What would you like to see her focus on?
released in December. Given the tangle of bureaucracy that’s involved in making changes to public space — improvements to the sidewalk, for example, might be under the Department of Sanitation, the Parks Department, the Department of Environmental Protection, or the MTA — it’s remarkable that New York hasn’t yet had a person or department responsible for coordinating this work .
Our city’s public spaces are too important to fall through the cracks of bureaucracy, and now they won’t.
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