Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Bloomberg

Bronx Traffic Relief Forum Tonight, 7:30pm, Riverdale Temple

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz is hosting a forum tonight on Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Speaking in favor of congestion pricing will be Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City. Speaking in opposition to congestion pricing will be Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities […]

Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 5, 2007 | 36 Comments

The daily scene on SoHo’s Crosby Street, jammed with illegally parked government employees. The Observer reported on Wednesday that Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free recently solicited UCLA parking policy guru Donald Shoup to do a study of curbside parking policy in New York. Carolyn Konheim, a Brooklyn-based transportation consultant […]

New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2007 | 18 Comments

The unprecedented new physically-separated bike path running along Chelsea’s Ninth Avenue has already been set up using temporary materials. The Department of Transportation is billing it as New York City’s "street of the future." New York 1 reported yesterday: Bicyclists have a new lane to use in Chelsea, and the city is hoping to expand […]

Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re the Yankees. Following up on his tour of the smelly swath of plastic turf the Yankees installed in the South Bronx after turning actual park land into a stadium construction site, Neil deMause reports in the Village Voice that a clause […]

MTA Chief Lee Sander Talks Congestion Pricing in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 2, 2007 | 4 Comments

MTA CEO, Queens native and LIRR commuter Lee Sander received a warm reception then "faced some tough questions when he addressed a combined meeting of the Saul Weprin and Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Clubs on Thursday in Hollis Hills" last Thursday, the Queens Chronicle reports: Although he was welcomed back by old school chum Councilman David […]

On Behalf of 5.2% of His Constituents, Dinowitz Opposes Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 6, 2007 | 54 Comments

The16% of Bronx residents who own cars tend to have significantly higher incomes than those who do not, according to data from the State Department of Motor Vehicles and the 2000 Census. In an editorial in this week’s Riverdale Press, Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz says that if the vote on Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing […]

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