Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Sheldon Silver

Paul Newell on Starting a Political Campaign in New York City

By Ben Fried | Apr 29, 2008 | 12 Comments

Last week Streetsblog caught up with Paul Newell, who’s mounting the first primary challenge to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in 22 years. Discussing his candidacy, Newell made it clear that he is in it to win it. (He picked up some momentum yesterday, garnering the endorsement of BlogPAC, which describes itself as "a consortium of […]

COMMUTE’s BRT Plan: A Denser Network and Interborough Lines

By Ben Fried | Apr 25, 2008 | 11 Comments

COMMUTE’s proposals for BRT routes in the five boroughs, shown next to DOT’s current plan. View an enlarged version. As part of its "Sustainability Watch" series this week, Gotham Gazette ran a great piece on Bus Rapid Transit by Joan Byron of the Pratt Center for Community Development. Byron is one of the organizers at […]

Silver Challenger Paul Newell Campaigns on Livable Streets

By Ben Fried | Apr 25, 2008 | 16 Comments

In what may be a political first, Paul Newell, who is challenging Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the 64th District, mentions "livable streets" as one of his three major planks in this campaign clip. Newell and Luke Henry, another Silver challenger, have both voiced support for congestion pricing. The last time Silver faced a challenger […]

Help Wanted: Legislators Needed to Fix Broken Capital

By Ben Fried | Apr 14, 2008 | 28 Comments

Can’t wait for someone to challenge Shelly Silver, Deborah Glick, Hakeem Jeffries, Joan Millman and other members of the Albany crew that didn’t allow congestion pricing to even come up for a vote? Neither can the New York Times. In a scathing editorial published on Saturday, the Times issued a call for change in the […]

Silver and Assembly Dems Defend Their “Democratic” Process

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2008 | 45 Comments

In the latest New York Observer, Azi Paybarah talks to state legislators and other insiders about how the congestion pricing non-vote went down on Monday. Conclusion: Assembly Democrats told Speaker Sheldon Silver what to do, not the other way around. And by killing the pricing bill behind closed doors, the thinking goes, the Democratic conference […]

Assembly Dems Kill Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 7, 2008 | 30 Comments

Speaker Sheldon Silver, as quoted in the Daily Politics: "The conference has decided that they are not prepared to do congestion pricing," said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver after emerging from behind closed doors where he was closeted with members of his Democratic majority. "I think you can speak to the members of the conference who […]

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