Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about David Greenfield

Meet Your New Transportation and Land Use Committee Chairs

By Stephen Miller | Jan 22, 2014 | 6 Comments

It’s official: Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is chair of the transportation committee, and Council Member David Greenfield will head up the powerful land use committee. While Rodriguez’s appointment has been greeted mostly with optimism by street safety advocates, Greenfield’s ascendance raises flags about whether the city will be able to get much-needed parking reforms through […]

Council Passes Hit-and-Run Bill; Greenfield Tables Speed Limit Legislation

By Brad Aaron | Dec 20, 2013 | 8 Comments

The City Council yesterday passed legislation requiring NYPD to post regular reports on the most serious hit-and-run crashes, while a bill to lower speed limits on certain streets has been set aside until next year. The hit-and-run bill would mandate that NYPD report in writing quarterly on the total number of “critical injury” hit-and-run crashes, […]

Council Now Wants to Set Speed Limits at 25 MPH Citywide

By Brad Aaron | Nov 27, 2013 | No Comments

A City Council effort to lower speed limits to 20 miles per hour on residential streets citywide has been dropped in favor of a bill that would set limits at 25 mph on narrow one-way streets. The original bill, sponsored by Council Member David Greenfield, would have set speed limits no higher than 20 mph “on all streets […]

At City Council Hearing, Impassioned Appeals for Lower Speed Limits

By Brad Aaron | Oct 31, 2013 | 21 Comments

City Council reps and members of the public spoke unanimously today in support of a bill to lower speed limits to a life-saving 20 miles per hour in neighborhoods citywide. But if the council adopts the measure, it will do so over the objection of DOT, which said the proposal would create conflicts with state […]

What to Watch for at Tomorrow’s Council Hearing on Greenfield’s 20 MPH Bill

By Stephen Miller | Oct 30, 2013 | 10 Comments

Tomorrow, the City Council transportation committee is holding a hearing on a bill sponsored by Council Member David Greenfield that would lower the speed limit on most residential streets to 20 mph. The bill has been welcomed by advocates, but there are some legal questions to keep an eye on during testimony tomorrow morning. Currently, […]

How Many NYC Children Were Injured or Killed by Muni-Meters Last Week?

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2013 | 7 Comments

It barely made news and we didn’t hear a peep about it from any elected, but at least three children were seriously injured by drivers in Brooklyn and the Bronx late last week. On the morning of Thursday, May 2, a 12-year-old boy was hit by a motorist at Bath Avenue and 24th Street, near […]

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