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2 months agoThursday's Headlines: Set Our Calendar Edition - Streetsblog New York City
Upcoming four weeks feature multiple livable-streets events — awards, council hearings, talks, comedy shows, and committee meetings focused on pedestrian access, transit, and low-traffic neighborhoods.
US politics
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2 months agoSafe Streets, Workers Rights, Crash Victims Targeted By Big Tech In Super Bowl Ads - Streetsblog New York City
Super Bowl ad buys acted as political warning shots by Big Tech to influence public opinion and pressure policymakers on auto-insurance and livable-streets policies.
New York City
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3 months agoWednesday's Headlines: Mamdani Dumps Bump Jump Edition - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Mamdani prioritized livable streets in his first week, pushing road diets, daylighting intersections, congestion pricing, and fast infrastructure fixes to improve cycling safety.
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4 months agoWednesday's Headlines: 2nd-Most Important Job Edition - Streetsblog New York City
Tomorrow, Zohran Mamdani will become mayor - and it appears that he'll do so without having appointed his own Department of Transportation commissioner. We were getting anxious, so we sent Dave Colon to Mamdani's press conference on Tuesday to ask why he had not yet announced a nominee for the city's second-most-important job. Mamdani didn't reveal anything new ... but wisely deflected our question with praise for Streetsblog.
NYC politics
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4 months agoStreetsies 2025: The Best Projects of the Year - Streetsblog New York City
The final year of the Adams administration has largely been marked by a mayor who didn't care about livable streets policy or actively worked to roll back a decade's worth of Vision Zero work. But there were still some highlights this year: The city finally got congestion pricing, avoided a highway expansion in the South Bronx, and European-style trash containerization took off uptown. And that's not all!
New York City
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4 months agoLikely Council Speaker Julie Menin Claims She'll Work With Mamdani On Livable Streets - Streetsblog New York City
Julie Menin supports street safety and mobility measures but her mixed record and support for a bike licensing bill worry livable-streets activists.
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5 months agoThursday's Headlines: Mayoral Post-Mortem Edition - Streetsblog New York City
We said it all day: The livable streets movement elected Zohran Mamdani. Sure, armies of Socialist volunteerchiks, immigrant aunties, renters, Bronxites and so many others filled his winning coalition (as this nice Times video shows), but don't neglect the role played by bus riders, bike riders and YIMBYs in getting the Queens Assembly member over the finish line in first.
New York Islanders
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1 year agoNew $160M Davis Center Has No Bike Access For Harlem Riders - Streetsblog New York City
The [Harlem-side] bike parking is placed in a counter-intuitive way. If you're arriving from Harlem, the natural inclination is to head toward the entrance, so there should be bike parking there.
Bicycling
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