Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gale Brewer

Pedestrian Interference

By Aaron Naparstek | | 13 Comments
  Left to right: New York City Department of Transportation Deputy Commissioner/Senior Policy Advisor David Woloch, Commissioner Iris Weinshall, a procurement and technical servicea aide and City Councilmembers John Liu and Gale Brewer. As I saw it, the three big bullet points to come out of yesterday’s City Council Transportation Committee hearing on Intro. 199, […]

Gale Brewer to Introduce Congestion Pricing Legislation

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Upper West Side City Councilmember Gale Brewer is emerging as City Council’s top Livable Streets advocate. In April she worked with Transportation Alternatives to author Intro. 199, the Traffic Relief Bill. Today, Crain’s Insider reports that Brewer now plans to introduce congestion pricing legislation: "You have to do something about the traffic," she says. "I think it’s something […]

Streetfilms: Yesterday’s Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall

By Alec | | 1 Comment
Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief Press Conference A few quick scenes from yesterday’s event Running time: 2:02 "As this city is booming, it’s not moving," lamented City Councilmember Gale Brewer outside City Hall yesterday. But with support from 125 civic groups in five boroughs, the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief assembled behind her and outlined […]

Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall This Morning

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Councilmember Gale Brewer joined Transportation Alternatives and representatives of community groups from all over the city at this morning’s Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally on the steps of City Hall. The Coalition currently includes 129 community organizations. These organizations have signed on to a petition calling on the Bloomberg Administration to devlop "a comprehensive traffic […]

Measuring Street Performance

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
Council member Gale Brewer of Manhattan’s Upper West Side has introduced a new piece of legislation that would compel New York City’s Department of Transportation to completely re-conceive of the way it measures and evaluates its own performance and the performance of the city’s streets. Currently, DOT’s metrics are set up mainly to measure the […]