David Meyer
Born and raised in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, David fell in love with journalism as a kid accompanying his reporter dad on stories while school was out. A reporter at Streetsblog from 2015 to 2019, David returned as Streetsblog Deputy Editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post. A graduate of Montgomery Blair High School and the University of Maryland, he lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Recent Posts
Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Woman Jogging in Prospect Park
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A hit-and-run driver struck and critically injured a woman jogging in Prospect Park at around 5 a.m. this morning. The 51-year-old woman was running on the West Drive just north of the tennis courts when the driver of a black vehicle hit her from behind, according to police.
Tonight: Speak Up for Safer Walking and Biking on Upper Amsterdam Avenue
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DOT will present an update on its redesign for Amsterdam between 113th and 162nd streets, which it first showed to Community Board 9 in March.
Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing Clears Community Board 7
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The vote means that several hundred car storage slots on West 108th Street will almost certainly give way to hundreds of subsidized apartments.
For Politicians, Congestion Pricing Is an Exercise in Delaying Gratification
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For congestion pricing to work as policy and as politics, it has to be made out of strong stuff.
Brooklyn Electeds Press DOT and MTA to Give L Train Riders the Transit They Need
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North Brooklyn leaders are worried that the L train shutdown plan won't include the transit-priority treatments that commuters and local businesses are counting on.
NYPD Keeps on Junking Up Midtown Streets With Fences and Barricades
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While peer cities like London carve out more car-free space on their busiest streets for walking, NYPD is busy dropping metal fencing and concrete barriers all over Midtown, obstructing paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
Parks Dept Closes Hudson River Greenway Segment With Little Public Notice
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A reader who bikes the greenway daily said there was no advance notice about the detour, which directs cyclists to a pedestrian path that's crowded with joggers and dog walkers. No signs indicate when the closure will end.
NYPD Security Theater Takes Manhattan
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Obtrusive new police barriers interfering with walking and biking paths are cropping up in Midtown and elsewhere. Do you feel safer, New York?
DOT Will Try Out a New Way to Provide Secure Bike Parking
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If you need to park your bike outside in New York, you never really know if all your components will be there by the time you get back. Though garages have to provide bike parking options by law, affordable secure bike parking is still in short supply. DOT is looking to change that.
RPA’s Vision for Great New York Transit Depends on Fixing a Broken Bureaucracy
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The fourth regional plan calls on elected officials to modernize and expand the region's outmoded transit networks.
NYPD Tickets Cyclists Where Speeding Driver Killed 14-Year-Old Edwin Ajacalon
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For the past two days, police have been ticketing cyclists on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in Brooklyn's 72nd Precinct, just two blocks from where a driver killed 14-year-old Edwin Ajacalon on Saturday.
Congestion Pricing Was Unpopular in Stockholm — Until People Saw It in Action
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Stockholm transportation director Jonas Eliasson has some advice for New York politicians worried about diving into congestion pricing: Just do it. Eliasson steered the implementation of congestion pricing in Stockholm in 2006. From that vantage point, he watched a skeptical public quickly embrace the policy as soon as they saw it in action.