Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Ad Nauseam: Tiki Barber and His Cadillac Escalade

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 28, 2007 | 5 Comments

While reading the NY Times essay about the woman who drives back and forth across the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, I was reminded of the Tiki Barber ads for the Cadillac Escalade. The spot that premiered during the Super Bowl is a moody, impressionistic montage that shows the former New York Giants running back […]

Going Nowhere Fast

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 26, 2007 | 22 Comments

This weekend’s City section of the New York Times featured a mind-blowing essay by children’s-book writer Sarah Shey about her habit of taking her one-year-old son out for drives in the city — drives with no destination or purpose in mind, in which she crossed and recrossed the Brooklyn Bridge endless times. Shey, who is […]

StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 20, 2007 | No Comments

Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking Running time: 6 minutes 37 seconds "I don’t see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You’ve got your priorities exactly […]

Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 20, 2007 | 13 Comments

With DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall set to depart city government in three weeks, sources say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is close to announcing her replacement. The Mayor’s choice will have a profound impact on day-to-day neighborhood life as well as the City of New York’s long-term future. Though the DOT commissioner job search has barely […]

Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 19, 2007 | 14 Comments

Over at the site UncivilServants.org, the Transportation Alternatives project where readers can post photos of illegally parked cars sporting government-issued parking permits (like the court officers above who are comfortably ensconced in a no-parking zone on Crosby Street), there’s a hot thread on whether showing the plate numbers of the vehicles constitutes a potentially dangerous […]

Defending “The Bailey’s” Right to Kung Pao Chicken and an SUV

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 14, 2007 | 9 Comments

DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall and her husband Senator Charles Schumer enjoy a meal with The Bailey’s. This week’s New Yorker has a Jeffrey Goldberg Talk of the Town piece about Senator Charles Schumer’s new book, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time. Schumer’s protagonist is an imaginary, average middle-class American […]

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