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Mayor Bloomberg Says NYC Traffic Congestion is Good.

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 2, 2006 | 16 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg offered a depressing-yet-enlightening dose of complacency about the city’s traffic crunch this morning. Speaking at Museum of the City of New York’s construction kickoff, Bloomberg explained that he’d arrived late because he’d been "huddled with Con Ed" to monitor power usage during the heatwave. After carping a bit about residents turning up their air […]

No Thongs on the Pompidou Expressway! Tomorrow the F.D.R.?

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

Streestblog foreign correspondent Geoff Zink sends in this snapshot from Paris, France, where every summer since 2002 an expressway running along the River Seine has been transformed into a beach and linear park. More from Geoff on Flickr. Today, the New York Times reports the new rules: No toplessness. No thongs. "If people want to […]

Speed Bumps

By Alec | Jul 28, 2006 | 2 Comments

At the Museum of the City of New York, Vincent Cianni’s bracing photos show how a group of teens on Williamsburg’s south side organized to get a skate park built in the shadowy wasteland beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. If these kids can persuade City Hall to let them shape their own terrain, imagine what five boroughs’-worth of block […]

DOT Revs Up its “Alternative Modes” Department

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 28, 2006 | 5 Comments

A rendering of the Sands Street bike path on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge Here is yet another sign that change is afoot at New York City’s Department of Transportation: Insiders are reporting that Ryan Russo has been promoted from the Brooklyn Borough Commissioner’s office to take over as the new Director of Alternative Modes. […]

Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 27, 2006 | 16 Comments

Last week, columnist Steve Dunleavy used his 400-word rant-space in the New York Post to urge the city’s cab riders and motorists to throw open their car doors in front of "pedal punks" riding their "maiming machines," and, "take back the streets" from bike-commuting "kamikaze jerks." City cyclists, already feeling vulnerable after a month of […]

Gridlock in Williamsburg

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 26, 2006 | No Comments

While we’re on the topic of Williamsburg, this lengthy piece of original reporting on NYTurf is worth a read if you didn’t catch it when it was filed a couple of weeks ago: How the City Has Left Williamsburg in a Traffic Jam When the Department of Planning puts together projects like the Williamsburg Waterfront Redevelopment, the […]

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