Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Street Safety

MARCH (PARKING) MADNESS: Two Under-the-Radar Precincts Battle in the Manhattan Final

By Streetsblog | Mar 23, 2022 | No Comments

At the 24th Precinct on the Upper West Side, cops leave their cars everywhere, showing about as much respect for the neighborhood as Hollywood showed Rodney Dangerfield. Pick your poison — and vote!

So called "free parking" exacts a high toll on our streets, air and the taxpayer. Photo: Chris Murphy/Flickr

OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air

By Richard Robbins | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.

About That Safety Crackdown: NYPD Conducts Yet Another Tiny Enforcement Push

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Mayor Adams's sole safe streets announcement so far in his administration — a promise to protect pedestrians with a "relentless" effort by the NYPD — is just the same old fake crackdown.

A community board meeting. File photo: David Meyer

Friday’s Headlines: Let’s Go Zoom! Edition

By Eve Kessler | Mar 18, 2022 | No Comments

Should online video streaming be a permanent feature of public meetings? Plus other news.

INVESTIGATION: Whatever Happened to that Reckless Driver Who Totaled Brooklyn War Memorial?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 18, 2022 | No Comments

Here's a deep dive on one single reckless driver with a singularly bad driving record who caused a single crash in Brooklyn — a story of civic dysfunction and basic lack of follow up.

MARCH (PARKING) MADNESS 2022: Two Boogie Down Precincts With Bad Attitudes: The 44th and the 41st

By Streetsblog | Mar 16, 2022 | No Comments

It's "The Hell Under the El" vs. the former "Fort Apache" in a contest to reach the borough finals.

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