Four More Years
The City Council voted 29 to 22 to extend term limits. City Room and The Daily Politics have all the gory details.
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The Bike Bowl: College Towns Surge Ahead in Bike Commuting
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Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with the Frontier Group, a think tank working on issues of the environment and democracy. It’s college football bowl time. That once meant the renewal of age-old rivalries, and nowhere more so than in the Rose Bowl, which traditionally pitted the winner of the Midwest-based Big 10 conference against […]
Walking Tour: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York: Forest Hills: Garden City in the City
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In conjunction with a new exhibition, Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York, eight walking tours will take participants to places associated with Jane Jacobs’ life and work and to communities that illustrate her planning principles — or call them into question. Forest Hills: Garden City in the CityRecently ranked the no. 1 "cottage […]
Cyclists Ride with Pedicabs to Rally at City Hall
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The City Council Consumer Affairs Committee is set to vote on regulations that would put a very low cap on the total number of pedicabs in the City and ban certain types of pedicabs from City streets. Time’s Up! joins the Pedicab Owners’ Association against these unreasonable regulations to say: NO CAPS! NO BANS! SAVE THE […]
Task Farce Delta: City Hall Also Has Its Own Electric Micromobility Panel
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The task force so nice they did it twice.
EQUAL TIME: Industry City Rezoning Will Help Sunset Park, City
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The CEO of Industry City says the rezoning will not be a force for gentrification, but will be an engine for good jobs for its Sunset Park neighbors.
Comptroller Lander: Make City Drivers Safer By Punishing Agencies for Crashes
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The comptroller says that settlements to victims of crashes caused by city workers in city vehicles should be paid for by the agency whose worker caused the damage — instead of from the general city budget — as a way to get agency brass to incentivize safety.