Visit: Kingston Corridor
The Kingston Corridor runs from the NY State Thruway entrance at the Washington Avenue Circle, through the historic uptown district, the neighborhoods, shops and light manufacture and fabrication, the high school, hospitals, library of the Mid Town area and down to the Rondout district ending at the waterfront of the Rondout Creek which enters into the Hudson River.
This blog is about strengthening the ties along the Corridor, seeking it’s improvement, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, seeing that it is user friendly and highlighting the places and activities along it’s 3 mile length.
It is about the city of Kingston connected and unified while remaining indefatigably unique in all it’s diverse parts, wards, neighborhoods, peoples.
The kingston corridor wordpress site is a collection of information and operation of a physical overlay of transit through the city of kingston.
Contact gberke@gmail.com for information, suggestions, etc…. thanks
The Corridor vision is great for Kingston, and Gerry you have brought together a community of thinkers and doers to discuss its dimensions. You and I have emailed that any urban corridor today has a green dimension – doesn’t have to be flashy or supersede the cultural/ neighborhood/ technological… But that vision can play with opportunities for energy improvements (bulk insulation and CFL purchases?), infrastructure like rain gardens that helps to manage flooding while looking beautiful, more solar like they did on the hospital, more urban design conferences and charrettes like the Kings Inn folks and SHV have done at Seven21.
I am working with a small committee called Green Innovations, as part of the city’s Climate Smart / Green Jobs Task Force. Comments on this vision, and creative energy to help it happen, are most welcome.
Melissa Everett, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Sustainable Hudson Valley
http://www.sustainhv.org