Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Bin Laden Is Dead, But the Second Avenue Bike Lane Lives On

By Ben Fried | Jul 8, 2011 | 78 Comments

Given enough time, the theory goes, a thousand monkeys banging away at a thousand typewriters will eventually compose the complete works of Shakespeare. But Marcia Kramer and the crack news writers at CBS2 only needed a couple of hours, maybe less, to come up with last night’s masterpiece about the extension of the First and […]

Demystifying NYC’s Cycling Gender Gap

By Ben Fried | Jul 5, 2011 | 6 Comments

The Times called some attention to New York City’s cycling gender gap this weekend with a feature titled “Women, Uneasy, Still Lag as Cyclists in New York City.” Judging from Christine Haughney’s write-up, the gender imbalance among NYC cyclists is immutable and impervious to policies that seek to shake up the status quo on the […]

The Times Theory of Democracy: “More Power to the Design Commission!”

By Brad Aaron | Jun 27, 2011 | 23 Comments

If you’re looking for further evidence to support Jason Gay’s “the bikes have won” theory — that the anti-bike bile-fest of last winter was so much sound and fury signifying nothing more than the windshield perspectives of the city’s intransigent political and media elites — we present the latest, and perhaps lamest, salvo from the […]

What We Don’t Know About the Crash That Killed Aileen Chen

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 9, 2011 | 127 Comments

Here are a dozen questions pertaining to the crash that took the life of 16-year-old Stuyvesant H.S. student Aileen Chen as she rode her bicycle last Saturday a block from her home in Borough Park at around 6 p.m. How fast was the BMW traveling when Aileen and her bicycle first came into view? How […]

Kramer and Hikind Exaggerate Victory in War on Pedestrians

By Ben Fried | Jun 1, 2011 | 14 Comments

Last night Marcia Kramer served up more of her unique brand of public service journalism, triumphantly reporting that the city will remove pedestrian safety measures designed to prevent seniors from getting killed and maimed in Borough Park traffic. Touring Fort Hamilton Parkway with Dov Hikind, the State Assembly rep who threatened last month to sue […]

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