Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ruben Diaz Jr.

Sanitation Salvage owner Steven Squitieri, second from left, with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and then-Assembly member Mark Gjonaj in 2016. Photo: Ruben Diaz Jr./Flickr

Here Are the NYC Electeds Who Take Campaign Money From Trash Carters

By Brad Aaron | Jul 24, 2018 | No Comments

Private trash haulers have killed at least 16 people walking and biking in NYC since 2012. But some electeds are less worried about the industry’s safety record than sparing waste haulers the effort of reforming their operations.

Bronx Beep Ruben Diaz Jr. Calls for Better Bikeway on Grand Concourse

By David Meyer | Feb 22, 2016 | 13 Comments

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. wants better bike infrastructure on the Grand Concourse. In his “State of the Borough” speech on Thursday, Diaz said a bike lane on the Concourse is among his 2016 policy goals. “We’ve made improvements to the Grand Concourse, and we will bring a dedicated bike lane to this iconic roadway,” Diaz said. […]

Bronx Beep Ruben Diaz Calls on State DOT to Transform Sheridan Expressway

By Stephen Miller | Feb 19, 2015 | 12 Comments

The effort to transform the Sheridan Expressway got a boost this morning from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who in his State of the Borough address called on the Cuomo administration to take action. The 2013 proposal from the Department of City Planning would turn the little-used stub highway in the South Bronx into a boulevard, opening […]

Instead of Reforming NYC Tolls, Ruben Diaz, Jr. Proposes Soaking the Bronx

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2014 | 19 Comments

Like the Tea Party adherents who are always going to equate walkability and sustainable transportation with a global UN conspiracy, some New York City electeds are always going to call road pricing “regressive” no matter how much the evidence suggests otherwise. But Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. really ought to know better. Diaz has […]

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. […]

Neighborhood Slow Zone Opens in Claremont, Perhaps the First of Many

By Noah Kazis | Nov 21, 2011 | 11 Comments

The city’s first “neighborhood slow zone” officially opened this morning, bringing a 20 mph speed limit and new traffic calming treatments to the residential Claremont neighborhood in the Bronx. Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, joined by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., City Council Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca and local District Manager John Dudley, announced […]

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