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Courtesy of Steve O’Neill, inventor of New York City’s famous "No Horn Blowing Except for Anger" sign.
Note to Steve: The New York City Department of Transportation has a big job opening in the Signs & Markings Division…
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Steve Cuozzo Hides the Truth: Midtown Biz Leaders Support Street Redesigns
By Ben Fried |
Steve Cuozzo columns about street reclamation are usually so divorced from reality that we’ve been letting him go unchallenged for a while. The insanity is usually self-evident. His latest screed against the 34th Street busway is no different. It’s got all the usual fearmongering (“be afraid,” is the mantra), contradictions (in one breath, DOT is […]
In the Tortured Mind of Steve Cuozzo, Even Street Trees Are a Threat
By Brad Aaron |
Well it finally happened. Steve “Quixote” Cuozzo has conceded that the Times Square pedestrian plazas, the project to which he has devoted two years of relentless tilting, are a hit. Not only are they “popular with burger-chomping tourists,” writes Cuozzo in Thursday’s column, such a draw are Times Square’s new public spaces that they threaten […]
The Man Who Saved NYC Cycling
By Charles Komanoff |
“Our streetwise Dionysian godhead,” is how one veteran of the 1987 Midtown bike ban protests described Stephen Athineos, who died yesterday of a heart attack in Inwood, where he lived. Amen. You could also call Steve “the man who saved NYC cycling.” Without his charismatic field generalship, the rolling demonstrations that mesmerized the city in […]
Eyes on the Street: Minivans Parked All Over Williamsburg Sidewalk, Bikeway
By Stephen Miller |
A reader sent in this photo of what looks to be several dozen minivans in Williamsburg parked all over the sidewalk and bike lane on Kent Avenue. Along this section of Kent, which is part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, the parked cars blocked both a southbound bike lane and a northbound bike route on […]
Talking Headways Podcast: The Future of Street Lights
By Jeff Wood |
Clifton Lemon and Steve Lawton of LightPlace Advisors join me this week to talk about how lighting is going to change in cities with the advent of the LED. We learn about what fire and light means to humans and why the street light might become one of the most valuable assets a city has. Clifton […]
Socialism for Bad Drivers: New York’s Assigned Risk Pool
By Steve Vaccaro |
Editor’s note: Today Streetsblog NYC is pleased to launch “Street Justice,” a new column that examines how the law, the courts, and the police affect street safety in New York. Street Justice is written by Steve Vaccaro and Adam White, two attorneys who’ve been valuable sources for Streetsblog over the years, adding an expert legal […]