Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Bloomberg

If Mayors Ran America …

By Brad Aaron | | 7 Comments
In 2004, after John Kerry and John Edwards conceded a second term in the White House to George W. Bush, the editors of Seattle’s liberal-tarian weekly The Stranger published an essay entitled "The Urban Archipelago," calling on urban Democrats and their political candidates to unite on issues relevant to cities, where the majority of Americans […]

Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
 A few weeks back Atlantic Yards Report posted a compendium of recent writings that point to the contradictions inherent in, and problems resulting from, parking requirements for urban development plans. Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s much-praised PlaNYC 2030 contains a glaring omission, a failure to address the antiquated anti-urban policy that mandates parking attached to new residential […]

Let’s Hear About Mayor Bloomberg’s Transit Improvement Plan

By John Kaehny | | 5 Comments
Kevin Sheekey: Bring this man home to talk about the transit improvements congestion pricing will fund. Sixty Percent of New Yorkers support Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to impose a congestion pricing fee on traffic entering Manhattan’s Central Business District and spending the resulting money on transit improvements. According to the pollsters at Quinnipiac, that support hasn’t […]

City Hall to Reduce Parking Placards 20% and Centralize Control

By Aaron Naparstek | | 44 Comments
Crosby Street, Soho: A veritable government employee parking lot. (Photo: UncivilServants.org) As reported last week on NYPD Rant, the City Hall crackdown on government employee parking placards has arrived. Acknowledging the dissonance between his congestion mitigation efforts and City employees’ flagrant parking abuse, Mayor Bloomberg today announced a reduction in the number of city government […]

City’s First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
It ain’t the Velib, but yesterday it was announced that Dutch team West 8 would design a 40-acre park for Governors Island, which will include a fleet of 3,000 wooden bicycles free for use by island visitors. The Times reports: The design, commissioned by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, calls for transforming much […]
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