Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Student Killed on Ninth Ave. Is Fourth City Pedestrian Fatality in Five Days

By Brad Aaron | Nov 5, 2009 | 20 Comments

Seth Kahn, pictured here with late TV pitchman Billy Mays. Photo via Facebook Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen was the site of another pedestrian death Wednesday. Around 8:44 a.m., Seth Kahn was crossing Ninth at W. 53rd Street when he was hit by an out-of-service bus. He died a short time later at Roosevelt Hospital. […]

Daily News: Is There a Person in Your Parking Spot? Kill Them.

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2009 | 28 Comments

Ke Hai Du. Photo: Daily News Checkmate. In the unofficial battle for the most irresponsible, over-the-top media endorsement of motorist entitlement, the Daily News took the trophy this morning, declaring that drivers are within their rights to run down human beings who stand between their vehicles and on-street parking. Under an arguably racist headline, News […]

Daily News on Distracted Cab Drivers: What’s the Big Deal?

By Brad Aaron | Oct 19, 2009 | 7 Comments

In an apparent quest to see which local daily can issue the most ridiculously auto-centric assessment of the problems plaguing the public realm, the "New York" Post has some competition. In August, 8-year-old Axel Pablo was killed by a cab driver in Harlem. Witnesses say the cabbie was on his cell phone. Though police cleared […]

“New York” Post to Pedestrians: Drop Dead

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2009 | 11 Comments

Can’t make the light in time? In the eyes of the Post, you’re a scofflaw. In case you missed it, the New York Post officially ceded the right to speak for "real New Yorkers" this morning, when it printed a piece of anti-pedestrian pabulum masquerading as a prescription for street safety. Noting that 178 people […]

Paradox, Schmaradox. Congestion Pricing Works.

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 13, 2009 | 41 Comments

We’re used to seeing bizarre patterns of thinking on the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages, but an op-ed in Friday’s Journal took it to a new level: “How Traffic Jams Help the Environment.” Photo: The Wall Street Journal Still more bizarrely, the author was New Yorker writer David Owen, promoter of the commonsensical idea that […]

CBS2 Reporter Warns Against Distracted Driving While Driving Distracted

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

"I am six times more likely to be in a crash right now." The U.S. DOT’s distracted driving summit, now in its second day, is getting some major nationwide media play. As well it should. New York’s own CBS2 reports that distracted driving claimed the lives of 6,000 people last year. But in an otherwise […]

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