Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bill de Blasio

NYPD Isn’t Enforcing Mayor de Blasio’s Key Vision Zero Law

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2015 | 30 Comments

Within months of taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law several bills intended to add teeth to his Vision Zero street safety initiative. In the year since taking effect, however, the most important of those laws was barely used by NYPD. The Right of Way Law, also known as Section 19-190, made it a […]

How Did Straphangers Make Out in the Cuomo-de Blasio MTA Deal?

By Ben Fried | Oct 12, 2015 | 18 Comments

On Saturday, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio reached a deal to close the gap in the MTA’s five-year, $29 billion capital program, with the state pitching in $8.3 billion and the city contributing $2.5 billion. The agreement ends a drawn out political fight between the governor and the mayor. But enough about politics. How do transit […]

If Cuomo Wants City Funding for the MTA, He’ll Need to Compromise

By Stephen Miller | Oct 6, 2015 | 9 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s months-long attempt to squeeze money out of City Hall for the MTA appears to be reaching its end game. Cuomo and his people at the MTA — which, despite what the governor says, is a state entity under his control — have been asking Mayor de Blasio for ever-increasing amounts of money to fill the gap in […]

Mayor de Blasio Busy Pandering to Motorists Hours After Kids Hit by Driver

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2015 | 10 Comments

.@NYCMayorsOffice is officially part of @NYC_DOT paving crew! #StatenIsland #millandpave pic.twitter.com/4UAlRXEjlP — NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) October 1, 2015 Update: De Blasio spokesperson Wiley Norvell sent the following statement: “It’s painful and heartbreaking. Preventing crashes like this is precisely why Mayor de Blasio launched Vision Zero immediately after taking office. A full investigation is underway and the […]

Don’t Believe Team Cuomo’s Spin on the MTA “Lockbox”

By Ben Fried | Sep 18, 2015 | 10 Comments

This is rich. When Mayor Bill de Blasio told the Daily News he’s wary of upping the city’s contribution to the MTA capital program because Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly raided dedicated transit funds, MTA Chair Tom Prendergast said don’t worry, you can trust the governor: “This is nothing more than rhetoric from a mayor who refuses to […]

Times Square Coalition: Keep the Plazas, Regulate Naked People

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2015 | 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; […]

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