tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post8917746008849361358..comments2024-01-30T12:46:10.810-05:00Comments on Yappa Ding Ding: Jane Jacobs on LRTYappahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-39709025342254227992010-10-28T17:58:49.685-04:002010-10-28T17:58:49.685-04:00Note to MikeP: Jane Jacobs was one of the most inf...Note to MikeP: Jane Jacobs was one of the most influential women of the 20th century, exceeded, perhaps, only by Eleanor Roosevelt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-15798910939984758112009-08-01T18:20:03.108-04:002009-08-01T18:20:03.108-04:00What a wonderful coincidence. Just this morning I ...What a wonderful coincidence. Just this morning I noticed that a part of Hudson St in the West Village of NYC has been renamed Jane Jacobs Way. Having never heard of Jane Jacob, I sign on to Yappa and voila! Apparently she was instrumental in the demise of the Lower Manhattan Expressway which would have leveled a good chunk of Soho just below the West Village where she lived. How lucky that both Toronto and New York benefited from her activism.MikePnoreply@blogger.com