Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Sheldon Silver

Bloomberg: NYC is Poorer Today Thanks to Albany Inaction

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg had harsh words for New York State’s Democratic leadership at today’s press conference in Brooklyn. Here is an abbreviated transcript of some of the question-and-answer period with the press: Is congestion pricing dead? I don’t know that it’s dead or alive. I think what is clear is that we have not submitted a […]

It’s Alive. It’s Dead. It’s Three Men in a Room!

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 11, 2007 | 10 Comments

Erik Engquist at Crain’s says a potential deal is in the works that would nix Gov. Spitzer’s call for campaign finance reform and give Albany legislators a long-sought pay raise in return for congestion pricing approval. An Assembly Member that I spoke with this morning, however, says that congestion pricing is totally dead or, as […]

Bloomberg Stadium Foes Urge Silver to Support Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 4 Comments

Then: "Honk No" to Mayor Bloomberg’s plan. Now: Stop honking and pay $8. Bloomberg’s West Side stadium foes are now his congestion pricing friends. Manhattan Community Boards 4, 5 and 6 are holding a joint public hearing on the PlaNYC congestion pricing proposal tonight at 6:00pm. In an interesting twist of politics, the West Side […]

Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 54 Comments

Westchester Democrat Richard Brodsky has emerged as the State Assembly’s leading critic of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Later today Brodsky will release a report on the steps of City Hall characterizing the Mayor’s congestion pricing plan as a regressive tax that puts most of the burden on poor and middle-income drivers (and ignoring the […]

Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 20, 2007 | 20 Comments

Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron Janette Sadik-Khan: Four days. Streetsblog: Left in the legislative session? JSK: Yeah, well, maybe four days left, maybe more days. August in Albany. What can be better? SB: (Laughing) So, let’s start with something other than congestion pricing. How […]

New TV Ad Focuses on PlaNYC’s Health Benefits

By Jason Varone | Jun 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Campaign for New York’s Future has released a new poll, a glossy mailer that’ll go out to 380,000 families, and a television advertisement focusing on the health benefits of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030. The Daily Politics has a nice write-up: With time running out up in Albany and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver saying he […]

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