Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Issues & Campaigns

Mayor Adams stood next to a selection of Sanitation compost bins at the recent announcement that universal composting pickup will start in Queens. Photo: Mayor's Office

Queens Composting Overtakes Old Opt-in Program, But Still Has a Long Way to Go

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 24, 2022 | No Comments

Queens is getting its crap together.

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Opinion: Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?

By Marlene Druker | Oct 23, 2022 | No Comments

We can’t keep using the places that poor people live in as highways for wealthier people to move through quickly.

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Cycling Through COVID-19: Austin, Portland and Washington, D.C.

By Ralph Buehler | Oct 21, 2022 | No Comments

These three U.S. cities took very different approaches to taking care of their cyclists during COVID-19. Find out who lowered speed limits, who expedited bike lane construction, and more.

If outdoor dining had been a thing back in the sad 1940s, maybe Edward Hopper's classic painting, "Nighthawks," would have turned out different. Photo: The Streetsblog Photoshop Desk

Job Opening of the Day: Director of Open Restaurants at DOT (Wait, at DOT?!)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 21, 2022 | No Comments

Well, at least one agency thinks it's going to be running the Open Restaurant program.

NYCHA appears to have backed down from an e-bike ban. File photo: Noah Martz

EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA Backs Down From Banning E-Bikes on its Property

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 21, 2022 | No Comments

This controversy has been extinguished.

Vision Zero Cities: Why Everyone Hates Cyclists: Realistic Group Conflict Theory and the Plight of Cyclists

By Nadia Williams | Oct 21, 2022 | No Comments

There is a word that often has the same effect in comment threads on social media as a bucket of chum in a shark tank: cyclist. Why?

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