Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

Lunch will be extremely warm and delicious, at Bayonne’s Broadway Diner. Journey further to Liberty State Park. Bring a lock, money for lunch and a camera. Leaders Ed DeFreitas and others. Note: This is the first 5-Borough Bike Club ride for which an NYPD parade permit was obtained.

Chekpeds, the the Clinton–Hell’s Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety, reports that 75% of community members are concerned for their safety because of traffic, while only 6% are concerned about crime! Recently, another pedestrian was killed at 15th Street and 9th Avenue. Chekpeds seeks to obtain more enforcement at intersections, officers who care more about pedestrian […]

166 pedestrians were killed by cars and trucks on New York City streets in 2006. Already this year, too many have lost their lives (pdf) on New York City streets. Just one week ago, James Rice, 4, was killed by a turning SUV while crossing Baltic Street in Boerum Hill. What makes this young boy’s death […]

The campaign to make NYC streets more livable and equitable takes many shapes, responds to a multiplicity of needs and appears in an array of media. In this panel, participants will discuss the process by which and the reasons why "Traffic’s Human Toll," a study of New York City’s street life, became a media hit […]

A tour of MCNY’s Robert Moses exhibition.

A panel discussion moderated by Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the Museum of the City of New York, and featuring Jameson W. Doig, Robert Fishman, Kenneth T. Jackson, Lynne Sagalyn and Hilary Ballon.