Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Denny Farrell

Denny Farrell at Uptown Ped Safety Meeting: “I Drive Everywhere”

By Stephen Miller | Aug 27, 2013 | 18 Comments

The intersection of 155th Street, Edgecombe Avenue, St. Nicholas Place, and Harlem River Driveway is a busy, complex web where pedestrians jockey with turning drivers to cross wide expanses of asphalt. DOT began studying the location after a request from Council Member Robert Jackson. A final design and community board review is months away, but at […]

Albany Update: Will Any Transpo Bills Make It Out Alive?

By Noah Kazis | May 24, 2011 | No Comments

This year’s legislative session is rapidly coming to a close in Albany. With the state legislature wrapping up its regularly scheduled official business on June 20, the Capitol is entering a period of intense activity as legislators and lobbyists make a final push for their priorities. Albany has some big items on its agenda this […]

Shameless Shelly Silver Claims Credit for Saving Student Fares

By Brad Aaron | Jun 21, 2010 | 32 Comments

In an unbelievable display of chutzpah — okay, not really — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman "Denny" Farrell issued a self-congratulatory press release last Friday taking credit for "saving" student MetroCards. Here’s an excerpt: "My Assembly colleagues and I fought hard to preserve student MetroCards, because we believe that […]

Silver, Assembly Dems Reject Better NYC Bus Service

By Ben Fried | Mar 24, 2010 | 29 Comments

Sheldon Silver’s office just announced the outlines of the Assembly’s budget resolution. On a day when transit riders saw subway and bus cuts start to loom a whole lot closer, the speaker and his conference have piled on. Here’s the final line item under "Metropolitan Transportation Authority" in the summary of the Assembly’s budget [PDF]: […]

Upper Manhattan Pols Share a Common (Windshield) Perspective

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2009 | 4 Comments

Adriano Espaillat doesn’t believe in bridge tolls or parking laws. Some residents of Inwood aren’t happy with Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat’s vocal opposition to bridge tolls on East and Harlem River bridges. On the neighborhood blog Inwoodite (maintained by yours truly), Espaillat constituents sounded off last week, with one pointing out the assemblyman’s illegal parking […]

Revenge of the Free Riders

By Aaron Naparstek | May 15, 2008 | 21 Comments

From Transportation Alternatives’ Spring 2008 magazine: The biggest hurdle congestion pricing faced was the simple fact that the people required to enact the legislation were the ones who stood to pay the most because of it. On Monday, April 7, Sheldon Silver walked out of a closed door meeting of State Assembly Democrats and announced […]

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