Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Bloomberg

Police Academy 2: Starring a 3,000-Car Garage

By Ben Fried | | 14 Comments
Cadets will have a hard time getting to New York City’s next police academy, now under construction, without driving. Image: NYT/Michael Fieldman Architects and Perkins+Will. Last week brought another prime example of Bloomberg administration schizophrenia on urban sustainability. After his flight back from the Copenhagen climate summit, the mayor’s first stop was a former auto […]

Jan Gehl on Sustainable Transport in Copenhagen and NYC

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
While in Copenhagen to film the Danish capital’s world-beating bike infrastructure, Streetfilms’ Elizabeth Press caught up with urban planner extraordinaire Jan Gehl for a brief, canal-side chat. In this clip, Gehl explains how cycling and transit fit within the city’s sustainability agenda, and why "unnecessary transportation" threatens the global climate. With Mayor Bloomberg in Copenhagen […]

Quote of the Day

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
The Daily News captured this off-the-cuff comment from Mayor Bloomberg on Albany’s sudden failure to deliver more than $350 million to New York’s transit system: "I don’t know why anybody is surprised at what is happening to the MTA," he said. "It’s a piggy bank that keeps getting raided."

DOT Wipes 14 Blocks of Bike Lane Off Bedford Avenue

By Ben Fried | | 102 Comments
Workers blast away at the Bedford Avenue bike lane. Photo: Elizabeth Press. As reported by Gothamist, DOT is removing a 14-block stretch of the Bedford Avenue bike lane between Flushing Avenue and Division Street in Hasidic Williamsburg. Workers were seen erasing the lane this morning, taking away a safer cycling connection to central Williamsburg that […]
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