Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg: Transit Should Be Free, and Drivers Should Pay More

By Stephen Miller | Sep 28, 2012 | 24 Comments

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg rode the Staten Island Ferry, which has the distinction of being one of the few forms of public transportation in New York that is free to its users. At the press conference to announce the world’s largest ferris wheel (plus additional parking!) near the ferry terminal in St. George, the mayor was […]

Yankee Stadium Parking Garages “Almost Certainly” Coming Down

By Brad Aaron | Aug 30, 2012 | 6 Comments

How long now before the Yankee Stadium parking fiasco becomes an unpleasant memory? In a brief Crain’s item published last Friday (hat tip to Tri-State), Marlene Cintron, president of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, said that occupancy rates at the taxpayer-financed stadium garages are down from last year, and now stand below 50 percent. […]

NYC Will Expand 20 MPH Zones to 13 Neighborhoods, With More to Come

By Ben Fried | Jul 10, 2012 | 22 Comments

Following the launch of the city’s first 20 mph zone in the Claremont section of the Bronx last year, NYC DOT has selected 13 more areas to receive the “slow zone” treatment (see the full list), Mayor Michael Bloomberg and DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced this afternoon. DOT was inundated with applications for slow zones […]

Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan Announce New 20 MPH Slow Zones

By Brad Aaron | Jul 10, 2012 | 15 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg and NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced an expansion of the city’s Slow Zone program, which lowers speed limits in selected areas from 30 to 20 mph and implements low-cost traffic-calming measures like speed humps. Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan were joined in Corona by NYPD Chief of Transportation Bureau James Tuller, City Council […]

Husband Sues NYPD for Botched Investigation Into Death of Clara Heyworth

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2012 | 15 Comments

The husband of Clara Heyworth, the woman killed by a suspected drunk driver in Fort Greene last summer, filed a lawsuit today against NYPD and called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to take responsibility for the department’s failure to investigate traffic crashes. “I’m here because we have a right to know what happens in our city,” said […]

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