Photoshop-on-the-Street
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 […]
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 […]
Tonight: Get In on the Ground Floor of Steve Levin’s Traffic Task Force
By Brad Aaron |
Brooklyn Council Member Steve Levin will host the first meeting of a new “traffic task force” tonight in Boerum Hill. According to Levin spokesperson Hope Reichbach, the group is convening in response to a number of long-time neighborhood traffic issues. Reichbach says the initial meeting will serve to outline long-term goals — one possibility is […]
Post Reader to Cuozzo: Why Not Acknowledge That Streets Are Getting Safer?
By Charles Komanoff |
Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff wrote this letter to New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo yesterday morning. At the time we posted it, he had yet to receive a reply. Hi Steve — I wrote you two years ago, contrasting your column in the Post disparaging the Grand Street bike lane, with my son’s and my […]
Eyes on the Street: Plaza Street Bike Lane Goes Both Ways
By Ben Fried |
Well, the paint and striping aren’t all the way there yet, but there’s now room to bike in both directions on Plaza Street in Brooklyn. Doug Gordon posted a few pictures on BrooklynSpoke this morning, and reader Steve O’Neill sent in a few more. This DOT project will make it much more convenient to bike […]