Princeton Post Office in Palmer Square (click to expand.)
Princeton Council, led by Mayor Liz Lempert has written to local Congressman Rush Holt to express concern over USPS plans to sell the historic Princeton Post Office in Palmer Square, pictured above. USPS, faced with declining revenues, is aiming to downsize to a smaller office. Continue reading
Comparing the mode of transport of work trips across the USA on average (left) versus people working in Princeton (right). (Click to expand)
Compared to other places in the USA, how walkable is Princeton? We compared data on how people get to work, taking data from all across the country, and compared it to data on how people in Princeton get to work. The results tell an interesting story… Continue reading
Hard-working people who work in Princeton deserve a fair shot at living here too. (Click to expand.)
Happy Labor Day! While many of us spend the day relaxing or sales-shopping, Labor Day originally was about celebrating organized labor. For various reasons, only about 1 in 10 American workers is now a member of a labor union. What about the rest? Are they getting a fair deal? And what could we do to help them out?
A shocking statistic about Princeton is Continue reading
Wayfaring signs in London are a massive help for walkers. Image from Legible London. (Click to expand)
This week, Walkable Princeton is running stories from our recent overseas vacation, focusing on how other towns have found solutions to favor walkability. Previous posts in this series are here and here. Our regular local content is back after Labor Day.
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make a big difference. A friendly smile. Holding the door open for somebody. Calling your mom. All these things have a value that far exceeds their cost. When it comes to walkability, there are many things we could do to make it easier for people to get around without using a car. Pedestrian zones, protected bike lanes, fleets of hourly car-share vehicles…all these things would be great, and maybe sometime in the future we will see them in Princeton. But in terms of ‘bang for your buck’, it’s hard to beat wayfaring signs as a way of making life easier for people who are walking around. Continue reading
Lund University. (Click to expand)
This week, Walkable Princeton is running stories from our recent overseas vacation, focusing on how other towns have found solutions to favor walkability. Previous posts in this series are here, here and here. Our regular local content is back after Labor Day.
To say that Lund is “Sweden’s answer to Princeton” is Continue reading
Cargo bike available for customer use in grocery store in Malmo’s West Harbor mixed-use redevelopment zone. (Click to expand)
This week, Walkable Princeton is running some stories from our recent overseas vacation. Previous posts in this series are here and here. Our regular local content is back after Labor Day.
If you want to live a ‘green’ lifestyle, or if you just like regular exercise, using your car less is an excellent idea. But we can’t walk everywhere, right? Ahat about those trips that require a car, like trips to the supermarket? For those who shop in industrial sizes and quantities, a car, maybe even a truck, is necessary. But at least one grocery store in southern Sweden is offering customer’s free use of a nifty ‘cargo bike’ (pictured above) to haul away their shopping. Continue reading
Brighton seafront.
This week, Walkable Princeton is running some stories from our recent overseas vacation, about towns with walkable ideas that might be relevant to life in Princeton. Previous posts in this series are here. Our regular local content is back after Labor Day.
Think of a historic town with great independent stores and restaurants, and an extremely environmentally-conscious residents. Continue reading
History is everywhere in York, England. (Click to expand.)
Summer vacations can be a great opportunity to check out some different places and see how they compare to our home town, Princeton. While attending a friend’s wedding in York, England, the sense of history was everywhere. Founded in AD 71 by the Romans, York was the capital of Viking England, a key battle site during the English Civil War in the 17th century and was even bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.
Like Princeton, York is also Continue reading
A newcomer to Camden, NJ asks the question: who is redevelopment for? (Todd Mecklem, via thenextcity.org, Click to expand.)
Stephen Danley at nextcity.org makes a resonant point about the risk that redevelopment can pass local residents by. In his case, he wants to talk about….Camden. Have you ever spent any time in Camden? Are you familiar with its attractive riverfront location? Its affordable housing? Or do you think of it as: Continue reading
Murray Place apartment viewed from front. (Click to expand.)
As part of an occasional series where we cast an eye over the Princeton, NJ rental and real estate market, we invite you to comment on a local listing that we have pulled more or less at random off Craigslist. Previous entries are here and here. Continue reading
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