Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Letitia James

Disconnect Between Pols and People at Brooklyn Traffic Hearing

By Ben Fried | Jan 25, 2008 | 27 Comments

On balance, speakers at last night’s traffic mitigation hearing in Brooklyn delivered a pro-pricing message — a strong one if you discount the politicians who said their piece and left the auditorium before their constituents got to the mic. About 60 people came to Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights and weighed in on the […]

Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 18 Comments

Council member Lew Fidler delivers his Tax & Tunnel plan to the Commission. Spencer Wilking reports: The city’s traveling road show of community advocates, local politicians and concerned residents, otherwise known as New York City’s Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, stopped in Brooklyn Thursday night as part of its whirlwind seven county tour. At the hearing […]

DOT Minds the GAP

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 2, 2007 | 9 Comments

With city workers pouring concrete in the background (and StreetFilms’ cameras rolling), New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced pedestrian and cyclist improvements for Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza yesterday. The plan calls for 11,000 square feet of new, landscaped pedestrian islands, a separated bike path, new crosswalks and pedestrian signals. The redesign […]

Fort Greene Gets Action from Spitzer on Placards

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 19, 2007 | No Comments

The Fort Greene Association has scored another victory in the fight against abuse of placarded parking, this time with some help from very high places. According to Fredrik Anderson, the FGA’s vice chair and head of its transportation committee, neighborhood merchants and residents had been frustrated that state employees who work at 55 Hanson Place […]