Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Organizations

Share Your Outreach Strategies

By Lily Bernheimer | | 4 Comments
Cantor Benjamin Kintisch When starting a new Livable Streets campaign people will often ask us, "How do I connect with others in my neighborhood and build a working group?" Cantor Benjamin Kintisch is facing this familiar concern in Harlem and Hamilton Heights, and this time we’re putting the question to you. If you’ve had success […]

Today: Celebrate a Livable Streets Milestone With TA

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
Workers add markings to the Sands Street lane. Photo: brooklynbybike/Flickr Later today, Transportation Alternatives will mark the completion of a major Brooklyn livable streets improvement — a protected bike lane on the Sands Street approach to the Manhattan Bridge. Sands Street is where, in 2005, TA Senior Policy Advisor Noah Budnick was seriously injured after […]

1.2 Million Traffic Summonses Is Nothing to Be Proud Of

By Brad Aaron | | 5 Comments
Just another city motorist breaking the law with impunity. Photo: NYT In his response to Executive Order, the thorough and damning report on lax NYPD traffic enforcement released by Transportation Alternatives last month, Commissioner Ray Kelly was dismissive and defensive. "I don’t know what they are talking about," said Kelly. "In 2007 and 2008 we […]

Tom Vanderbilt Dissects “The ‘E’ Word”

By Brad Aaron | | 12 Comments
Image: Reclaim In the latest issue of TA’s Reclaim, "Traffic" author Tom Vanderbilt revisits the May New York Magazine profile of Janette Sadik-Khan, and its portrayal of projects like car-free Broadway as tributes to the city’s oft-mythologized non-driving "elite." Vanderbilt’s piece, entitled "The ‘E’ Word," deconstructs what he considers one of the most "abused word[s] […]
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