Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 12, 2007 | 14 Comments

An op/ed by Eduardo Porter in today’s New York Times makes a passing suggestion that by reducing the number of people who do solo car commutes, congestion pricing would make New Yorkers happier. I can say this for sure: If it also reduces the number of honking, revving, careening and exhaust-spewing sociopaths clogging New […]

Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 12, 2007 | 18 Comments

The Municipal Art Society will be announcing the winner of its Nasty Newsrack Photo Competition tomorrow. MAS launched the "OUTRAGE!!! Nasty Newsrack Photo Competition" to highlight the rampant legal violations of newsracks in New York City, and received more than 200 submissions. MAS is currently is exploring new newsrack policies and designs that have been […]

The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 29, 2007 | 33 Comments

Last week’s saga of MTA workers seizing bicycles locked to a subway stair railing in Brooklyn illustrated, yet again, just how far New York City has to go towards making bicycles an integral part of the city’s transportation system. As Larry Littlefield aptly commented, "The MTA doesn’t see bikes as an extension of the transit […]

Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It’s Done

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 25, 2007 | 15 Comments

One of the keenest and most unforgiving observers of bike culture in this town, in all its glory and absurdity, is the blogger Bike Snob NYC. A couple of weeks back, he posted a chronicle of his bike commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan that had me shaking my head in recognition at every turn. […]

Bogotá’s Peñalosa Talks Up Livable Streets, Sans Spandex

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2007 | 3 Comments

Filed by April Greene Guillermo ("Gil") Peñalosa has a message for you. Actually, he has about 100, but they all packed very nicely into his two hour presentation last Thursday night at Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building. The former Parks Commissioner of Bogotá, Colombia, joined by members of the Harlem Community Development […]

Tykes on Bikes

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

We’re a bit heavy on bike stuff today (especially considering that all eyes should be on the MTA right now) but following this morning’s bleak news in Brooklyn, I thought it would be nice to end the day on a more life-affirming note. Here is Nick Whitaker’s StreetFilm on the first annual Kids Art Bike […]

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