Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Economics

World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week

By Jason Varone | Sep 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce asks whether our planet will be able to absorb the population "mega-surge" currently underway in Africa, Asia and Latin America. From Common Dreams: The problem is that the global population base has increased so radically that even seemingly modest birthrates can have momentous consequences. Joel Cohen (head of the Laboratory of […]

A Streets Renaissance in Lower Manhattan

By Brad Aaron | Sep 12, 2007 | 10 Comments

Last weekend the New York Times published a nice piece about a resurgence in downtown Manhattan street life. Optimism abounds now among developers and merchants, who are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into real estate along the narrow streets of Lower Manhattan. They are counting on the district, in its next incarnation, to be not […]

Pedestrian Safety Tips & Anti-Pricing Talking Points From AAA

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 7, 2007 | 22 Comments

Car & Travel magazine is published by the Automobile Club of New York, also known as AAA. In addition to being the friendly guys who schlep out at a moment’s notice to tow your broken-down car, the Automobile Club has, over the course of decades, done everything in its power to ensure that nothing like […]

Casino-Jamming in the Catskills

By Sarah Goodyear | Aug 29, 2007 | 5 Comments

Way back in February Gov. Eliot Spitzer declared his support for a plan to build a $600 million casino in the Catskills. Now opponents of the St. Regis Mohawk tribe project, which would be located at the Monticello Racetrack in Sullivan County, have launched a public-relations campaign highlighting the traffic congestion and sprawl they say […]

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congressional debate on climate change has revealed division among politicians on how to best regulate carbon emissions. From NPR’s Marketplace, we get a report on the sharp difference between leading Democrats in both houses, Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Rep. John Dingell (MI) Boxer is quoted as preferring cap and trade, which seems to be […]

Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York

By Jason Varone | Aug 23, 2007 | 7 Comments

In June, NYU’s Wagner Rudin Center of Transportation Policy & Management teamed up with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council to host an event focused on current and future freight needs in the New York metro region. Their report cited increased consumption and congestion as serious challenges to moving goods in and around the city: […]

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