Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bill Bratton

NYPD Conspicuously Absent From City Council Vision Zero Hearing

By Brad Aaron | | 32 Comments
How seriously does Police Commissioner Bill Bratton take Vision Zero? The City Council transportation committee held a hearing today to gauge the city’s progress in reducing traffic injuries and deaths, and NYPD didn’t send a single person to provide testimony or answer questions. In NYPD’s absence, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg — as she often does — had to field council […]

Bill Bratton Rolls Back Internal NYPD Parking Reform

By Brad Aaron | | 24 Comments
On Monday the Times published an in-depth piece on how Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is aiming to boost NYPD morale, in part by giving officers more latitude to skirt departmental rules. The Times said such infractions might include “misplacing a memo book or being late for court.” According to the story, Bratton is also lightening up […]

Bratton: Times Square Plazas Will Stay

By Ben Fried | | 10 Comments
The de Blasio administration has finally put to rest the idea of yanking out the Times Square pedestrian plazas. Was that so hard? Erik Engquist at Crain’s reports that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said City Hall will see through the $55 million capital construction project to cast the plazas in concrete, which has been in […]

Times Square Coalition: Keep the Plazas, Regulate Naked People

By Brad Aaron | | 16 Comments
The Times Square Alliance and a coalition of electeds has a plan to address complaints about Times Square without destroying the hugely successful pedestrian plazas. The centerpiece of the proposal is to legally redefine the Broadway plazas as a public space with three regulated zones: “civic” zones for public seating areas and programmed events; “flow” zones for pedestrian throughput; […]

Who’s in Charge of Streets at City Hall?

By Ben Fried | | 27 Comments
A few things we learned today about how important decisions regarding streets and public space get formulated in the de Blasio administration: The whole flap over removing the Times Square plazas was the result of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton acting freelance. Bratton told the Wall Street Journal he planned his plaza outburst to the word (“to smoke people out”) […]
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