Eve Kessler
Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
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The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
'We Need New Station Houses Because of NYPD's Illegal Parking,' Communities Say
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The antidote to illegal cop parking? Why, more parking, of course, say many community boards.
THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds
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Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes, proving again that it's death, not redemption, that's beneath a dirty hood.
TRASH TALK: Advocates Warn Against Further Delays on Commercial Waste Zones
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They don't trust them as far as they can throw them.
Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? Denver Offering Rebates on E-Bike Purchases
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Colorado is high ... on getting e-bikes into the hands of drivers. Meanwhile, New York only subsidizes electric cars.
Design Trust Releases Public Space Management ‘Toolkit’
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Group seeks to smooth way for small-fry community and business organizations in 'placemaking' efforts.
MTA To Add 60 Electric Buses by Year’s End (That’s 1% of the Entire Fleet)
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In the latest advance of a slow rollout, the new vehicles will be deployed to communities with high asthma rates.
Thursday’s Headlines: Trash Talk Edition
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Garbage, garbage everywhere — but we can hope for more bins. Plus other news.
City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs
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A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?
Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures
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The "Clean Curbs" program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.
Thursdays Headlines: ‘We Got Him!’ Edition
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One good collar doesn't mean we need more cops in the subway. Plus other news.
Got Commercial Trash? The Sanitation Department Has $20K for Your Project
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The city will spend an almost infinitesimal amount of money on a problem with monumental repercussions.