Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Richard Brodsky

Three Questions for Richard Brodsky

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2008 | 32 Comments

We called Assemblyman Richard Brodsky yesterday to get his comments on the demise of congestion pricing. While he wouldn’t talk to us on the phone, he fielded a few questions over e-mail. Streetsblog: With congestion pricing off the table and the deadline to receive $354M in federal support about to pass, will other traffic mitigation […]

What Your District Loses Without Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Apr 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

The Campaign for New York’s Future has some handy fact sheets on the transit upgrades outlined in the MTA 2008-2013 Capital Plan, broken down by city and state electoral districts. Since many of these projects will be threatened without the hundreds of millions in annual revenues expected from congestion pricing, some legislators may need to […]

God’s Love: We’re Not Against Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2008 | 36 Comments

God’s Love We Deliver operates its kitchen out of this building on Spring Street. Richard Brodsky may have overplayed his hand in his latest attempt to cast congestion pricing as the bane of the less fortunate. As we noted Wednesday, after Brodsky received a letter from the charity God’s Love We Deliver asking for a […]

Brodsky Presents Dems With a Choice: God’s Love or Al D’Amato

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 2, 2008 | 21 Comments

Richard Brodsky is using this letter to rally opposition to congestion pricing. To get a sense of the issues that congestion pricing advocates will have to address in the State Assembly, download this letter that Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky circulated to his fellow Democrats yesterday. In it, Brodsky repeats the debunked claim that congestion pricing […]

Brooklyn Assemblyman “Protects Families” From Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 2, 2008 | 46 Comments

Richard Brodsky may have lost on Monday, but today his colleagues in Albany are parroting his talking points. A tipster sent us this constituent letter from Assemblyman William Colton, who represents Midwood, Bensonhurst and Gravesend in Brooklyn. Incidentally, a glance at this morning’s map reveals that the City Council members who represent those neighborhoods, Simcha […]

We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 2, 2008 | 9 Comments

This morning’s Crain’s Insider names Streetsblog one of the winners of Monday’s congestion pricing vote in City Council. While we’re honored, no one around here is spiking the ball or dancing in the end zone until New York’s famously dysfunctional state legislature is done doing whatever it is they’re going to do to the plan. […]

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