Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

The Storm of ’07 and the Commute of 8/8

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 8, 2007 | 8 Comments

Over on Flickr, Gothamist is gathering some incredible shots of the aftermath of last night’s storm and the chaos of this morning’s commute. We’d love it if you would share your morning commute story here on Streetsblog. And check out these photos, thanks to Gothamist’s remarkable network of contributors… Prospect Park South, Brooklyn. Flickr photographer […]

Open Thread: How Was Your Commute This Morning?

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 8, 2007 | 77 Comments

How did you get to work, or try to get to work, this morning — subway, bus, bike, walking, telecommute? Let’s hear some commuting stories. Here’s mine: After breakfast at Streetsblog Headquarters I walked in to my office and got to work. OK, that was obnoxious. Apologies to the subway commuters. I live on Union […]

City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 7, 2007 | 15 Comments

The city bureaucracy got it a little bit backwards, cracking down on bike commuting employees before actually offering them a new place to park their wheels. But this e-mail sent this morning to Dept. of Health employees working at 280 Broadway seems like a step in the right direction. From: Dept. of Health AnnouncementsSent: Tuesday, […]

Mayor Bloomberg’s Morning Commute

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 1, 2007 | 42 Comments

The New York Times metro desk has been staking out "MetroCard" Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s morning commute for the past five weeks. At first, reporter Michael Grynbaum and his colleagues Cassi Feldman and Cristina Maldonado thought they had a big scoop, according to a reporter’s diary on City Room: We would be following the mayor’s morning […]

City Backpedals, Says it is Now Making Space for Employee Bikes

By Brad Aaron | Aug 1, 2007 | 4 Comments

Outdoor bike parking at 100 Gold Street The stories are similar. Bike-commuting city employees ride to work, same as any other day. But when they get to their buildings they’re told they can’t come in — not with their bicycles, at least — forcing them to leave the bikes outside, in many cases unguarded against […]

Dying to Get to Work

By Jason Varone | Jul 27, 2007 | 11 Comments

As New York State sets up a commission to study the costs and benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing proposal, a new study by the Clean Air Task Force finds that, for many New Yorkers, the greatest exposure to dangerous and unhealthy air pollution comes during the daily commute. "Although we spend only about […]

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