Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

An oversight hearing on the City’s PLANYC 2030 sustainability goal to "reduce global warning emissions by more than 30%" and how best to achieve it.

Intro 199 is a bill in the New York City Council that would require the NYC Department of Transportation to work to reduce driving as a matter of policy. Transportation Alternatives will testify in favor of Intro 199, the Traffic Information and Relief Bill introduced in the City Council. Prior to the testimony they will hold a […]

Join the New York City Audubon Society for a discussion and book signing of Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert. In her most recent book, Kolbert approaches global warming from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, the North of England, Holland and Puerto Rico, interviews researchers and environmentalists, draws […]

Today is the RSVP Deadline for a talk at the APA by a senior policy advisor at the mayor’s sustainability initiative.

Ariella Rosenberg Moran, Senior Policy Advisor on Sustainability at the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability will speak about the mayor’s sustainability initiative. Here’s your opportunity to hear first-hand about PLANYC 2030, ask questions and provide your comments during the public outreach stage.

Robert Caro, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf, 1974) and the three-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, will offer reflections on the career of Robert Moses three decades after the publication of his seminal biography.