SAFETY LAST: DOT Under Fire to Finish Ninth Street Redesign after Sixth Fatality in 18 Years
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The city is once again under fire for a death on a roadway that it failed to redesign for safety.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Aaron Naparstek
Our 20,000 Post! Streetsblog’s Original Boss Aaron Naparstek Marks the Occasion
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We asked our founding editor to reflect on how far — and how not far at all! — the livable streets movement has come in 15 years of doing this.
Streetfilms Takes You Inside the ‘War on Cars’ Podcast
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Even though there's only been a doze-plus episodes, "War on Cars" has struck a nerve in ways that no other podcast could.
Tonight at Harvard: Aaron Naparstek Presents the Films of Clarence Eckerson
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We’ve got a late addition to the calendar for our Boston-area readers. Streetsblog founding editor Aaron Naparstek, currently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, will re-unite with Clarence Eckerson tonight for an evening of Streetfilms screenings and discussion. An hour of Streetfilms will be followed by a Q&A with Clarence and Aaron […]
Naparstek Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Streetsblog
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Aaron Naparstek in his Livable Streets Power Broker pose. This will be difficult news for those of you who are already reeling from Oprah’s retirement, Simon Cowell’s abandonment of "American Idol" and Sewell Chan‘s departure from City Room, but here it is: I am leaving my job as editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. For all of the […]
Open Source Your Streets Tonight on 91.1 FM, 7pm
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I’ll be talking with author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff on his new WFMU radio show, The Media Squat, tonight at 7:00 pm. We’ll be focusing on what grassroots, locally-oriented livable streets activists can do — and are doing — to take control of the planning and design of their communities and reclaim their cities […]