Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Bruce McCall, Limousine Liberal

By Stephen Miller | Aug 29, 2012 | 20 Comments

The term “limousine liberal,” first used against Mayor John Lindsay in 1969, was intended to call out hypocrisy among elites who, for example, urged support for transit but instead relied on private cars to get themselves around New York. With the latest New Yorker cover from Bruce McCall, it might be time for the phrase to make […]

An Open Letter to Daily News Deputy Editor Arthur Browne

By Brad Aaron | Aug 16, 2012 | 16 Comments

We noticed you’ve taken an interest in traffic injuries lately. This is a welcome development. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers are hurt in traffic every year, many of them seriously. Well over 200 are killed annually. Most of these crashes get little to no attention from police, much less the media. So it’s encouraging […]

The Bike and Pedestrian Safety Stats the Daily News Won’t Cover

By Ben Fried | Aug 9, 2012 | 18 Comments

The bike-hate trifecta in today’s Daily News is really something to behold: a piece on cyclists topping the 25 mph speed in Central Park which required the labor of at least four reporters; a companion editorial, leading the opinion page, spewing invective at some of the people who have done the most to make the […]

Data-Free Times Story on Blind Pedestrians Slights All Who Walk NYC

By Brad Aaron | Jul 30, 2012 | 16 Comments

As with any thriving metropolis, the New York streetscape is constantly changing. Whether related to sidewalk and street repair, utility maintenance or building construction, obstacles emerge and disappear around the clock, often leaving changes in their wake, in every corner of the city. For the physically impaired, of course, any of these changes can present a […]

On Invisible Pedestrians and Disappearing Motorists

By Brad Aaron | Jul 9, 2012 | 10 Comments

Three stories linked from today’s headline stack reveal an anti-pedestrian bias that city media types either don’t recognize or have no interest in abandoning. The Department of City Planning will this week unveil a preliminary proposal to upzone a large section of the East Side. When the Post set out to tear down one element […]

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