Dancing Under the Stars on Maple Avenue, Village of Haverstraw, New York. June 15, 2012.
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Dancing Under the Stars 2012
Posted: June 18, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, EventsTags: block party, dance, Dancing, dancing in the street, Downtown, event, fun, Haverstraw, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, motown, New York, NYC, rivertown, street, street closure, Village, village history, village of haverstraw
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Tactical Urbanism in Haverstraw?
Posted: June 5, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, SustainabilityTags: bike infrastructure, bike lane, city, diy urbanism, do it yourself, en plein aire, Haverstraw, historic downtown, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, New York, New York City, outdoor seating, pedestrian, pedestrianization, plaza, pop up cafe, pop up urbanism, rivertown, sharrows, streets, sustainability, tactical urbanism, transit oriented, urbanism, Village, village downtown
In Cleveland, local residents installed bike lanes and street furniture along a particularly desolate street in order to enliven their city with a more pedestrian friendly atmosphere. In the past I’ve written about pop-up urbanism as a way to create sense of place in a downtown area and spark a new interest among residents in using the street as a place to meet, exercise, relax, and be human. Tactical urbanism is a new phase of downtown citizen activism, where residents take matters into their own hands and reclaim the streets for people. Would something similar work along Main, New Main, or Broadway in downtown Haverstraw? See the short film below to catch my drift:
HLife Welcomes a New Contributor: Donna Schmidt
Posted: January 19, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Blogroll, Opinions & PoliticsTags: Antoine McGuire's, contributor, culinary, Haverstraw, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, New York, ny, rivertown, Village, village of haverstraw, writing
Donna Schmidt’s first job in High School was writing for the Enterprise Newspaper in Westchester County, New York. She has always been fascinated by the written word and the smell of newsprint. Both her father and grandfather were printers. Schmidt grew up in an Italian-American family in Westchester where sauce was always called gravy.
Schmidt is currently the President/Owner of a small publishing company, Donnin Publishing; a freelance writer specializing in feature and human interest stories; a writer for AOL’s New City, Nyack-Piermont, Pearl River and Nanuet Patch.com, Rivertown Magazine, and The Valley Table. (more…)
