Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Steve Cuozzo’s Bike Data Is Like Donald Trump’s Data on Obama’s Citizenship

By Ben Fried | Apr 20, 2011 | 21 Comments

Living in this metropolis of coastal elites, it can sometimes feel like you inhabit a different universe than the America where paranoid skepticism of the president’s citizenship runs rampant, and giving people the option of getting around safely without a car is viewed as a U.N. plot to subjugate us all. But New Yorkers do […]

Got a Drivers License and a Gripe? NYC Reporters Want to Hear From You

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2011 | 30 Comments

If you want to get the attention of the New York news media, the formula apparently goes something like so. Step one: turn a personal pet peeve into a matter of public record by filing a baseless lawsuit. Step two: watch reporters beat a path to your door. Take one Jack McCloy, a motorist who […]

Would You and Your Kids Bike on PPW Without Physical Separation?

By Ben Fried | Apr 11, 2011 | 20 Comments

Clarence posted these clips from yesterday’s family ride on Prospect Park West, asking us to imagine the street as bike lane opponents would have it — with only a striped, un-protected lane to separate cyclists from traffic. I can’t really picture families biking on such a street. Can you? Speaking of yesterday’s ride, the absence […]

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How Ad Dollars Help Explain the Media’s Bike Backlash

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | Apr 4, 2011 | No Comments

The media loves drama, of course. As your high school English teacher explained it, if Hamlet doesn’t get pissed about his dad’s murder or if Atticus Finch doesn’t step up to defend a black man falsely accused — that is, if somebody doesn’t say no, you’ve got no story. So the vociferous opposition of a […]

Bike Lanes Still Controversial to Michael Grynbaum, Opinion Poll Be Damned

By Ben Fried | Mar 30, 2011 | 12 Comments

If a bike lane gets striped and no one is there to report on it, would it still be “controversial”? Less than two weeks after a Quinnipiac poll revealed that 54 percent of NYC voters support the expansion of the bike network, New York Times transportation reporter Michael Grynbaum led off a story in today’s […]

Brits Get the Clearest View of Park Slope Bike Lane Fight

By Brad Aaron | Mar 9, 2011 | 12 Comments

If you just landed in the city or you’ve been off the grid for the past eight months, you might be wondering what the heck is going on on Prospect Park West. To catch yourself up, dive into this exquisite piece from the Guardian’s Matt Seaton. Seaton’s blow-by-blow masterfully sets the scene: the controversial, effective […]

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