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‘No Impact Man’ Hits the Mainstream

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
  Colin Beavan, a.k.a. No Impact Man, was featured on ABC’s "Good Morning America" last week. As shown in the video, GMA followed Beavan and his family wheeling their "SUV" trike around Manhattan, and also brought him into the studio for a light interview. Though the segment has the requisite "News of the Weird" feel, […]

Making the Case for Compact Development

By Sarah Goodyear | | 9 Comments
From the people at Smart Growth America comes word of a new book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, just out from the Urban Land Institute. In the book, researchers argue that more compact development (such as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in Atlanta built on reclaimed industrial land, shown at […]

No Vote on Stadium Deal by Bronx Borough Board

By Brad Aaron | | 1 Comment
We wrote a couple weeks back that one of the problems with the new Yankee Stadium parking subsidy deal is that the Bronx Borough Board has yet to vote on it — perhaps because board members, along with the borough president himself, are still waiting for information on the project from the Industrial Development Agency. […]

The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid

By Jason Varone | | 9 Comments
Thinking of getting rid of your car? You could sell it, but that means somebody else is eventually going to drive it on our city’s streets, contributing to air pollution and congestion. The Black Car Collective has a better idea: entomb it in black stucco. The idea is instead of a functional art car we […]

Are East River Bridge Tolls the Better Way to Go?

By Jason Varone | | 26 Comments
Writing for the Brooklyn Rail, Carolyn Konheim overviews the legacy of "Tammany-style" former Brooklyn Democratic leader Meade Esposito, and posits that the deceased "capo di tutti capi in New York politics" still exerts influence on city transportation policy. Konheim, who is a proponent of tolling the East River bridges, argues that Esposito’s record of protecting […]
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