Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

A meeting of Auto-Free New York entitled "Moving NYC Toward Energy Independence" and featuring Dan Miner, Chairman of the Energy Committee of the Sierra Club’s New York City chapter. Presented by the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility.

For the past 28 months, the NYPD has been harassing law abiding cyclists on the Critical Mass bike rides. Now the NYPD is proposing new parade permit rules that target the Critical Mass rides but would also affect thousands of other New Yorkers. It’s time for New York taxpayers to be told of the outrageous […]

Join the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative to raise spirits and funds, and to focus on the future of open space along the Red Hook piers. Enjoy a casual evening of drinks and hors d’oeuvres, hosted by BGI’s Board of Directors and fellow Greenway supporters. Since last year’s inaugural fundraiser at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, BGI has […]

A forum about the evolution of advocacy based planning and inauguration of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development. Presenters: Tom Angotti, CCPD Director, Professor of Urban Planning, Hunter College Marie Kennedy, Professor Emerita of Community Planning, UMass/Boston Romel Pascual, Associate Director for Environment, Office of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Los Angeles With […]

An in-depth view of various modes of transportation serving Newark. The following officials will provide updates and a look ahead at plans that will be important building blocks for future economic development: New Jersey DOT Commissioner Kris Kolluri Bill DeCota, Port Authority Director of Aviation Rick Larrabee, Port Authority Port Director Rich Roberts, Chief Planner for New Jersey […]

Lecture by James Howard Kunstler with a reception to follow as the author signs copies of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century.