Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Stephen Goldsmith

Stephen Goldsmith Out, Cas Holloway in as Deputy Mayor For Operations

By Noah Kazis | Aug 4, 2011 | 5 Comments

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith has resigned as deputy mayor for operations, the mayor’s office announced today. Current Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway will replace him. Goldsmith was brought in for the mayor’s third term with a charge to reinvent city government, particularly along the libertarian lines that he espoused as mayor of Indianapolis. […]

NYC Asks Banks For Ideas on Parking Privatization

By Noah Kazis | Feb 25, 2011 | 16 Comments

New York City is moving forward with possible plans to privatize its on-street parking to some degree. An RFP released last week by the city’s Economic Development Corporation asks investment banks to submit their best ideas for privatizing city assets. Parking tops the list of assets the city is interested in contracting with the private […]

Cities Learn From Chicago Parking Meter Debacle. Did Goldsmith?

By Noah Kazis | Nov 17, 2010 | 10 Comments

When Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced that he was striking a deal to privatize his city’s 36,000 parking meters, it was a golden opportunity for transportation reform. If all went well, the deal could have cleared a political path for higher peak-hour meter rates, curbing double-parking and congestion-causing cruising. But Chicago managed to completely bungle […]

Parking May Be Part of PlaNYC Update, Tweets Goldsmith

By Noah Kazis | Nov 12, 2010 | 24 Comments

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith dropped an intriguing hint this afternoon about the upcoming revision of New York City’s long-term sustainability plan. “We are looking at parking as part of @PlaNYC 2.0,” he tweeted. Now, there’s a lot that needs to happen between today and Earth Day 2011, when the update is due. “Looking at” parking […]

Memo to Goldsmith: To Balance NYC’s Transpo System, Make Cycling Safer

By Ben Fried | Aug 13, 2010 | 22 Comments

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and Mayor Bloomberg. Photo: Daily News There’s a lot to like about Stephen Goldsmith’s answers during yesterday’s must-read interview with WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein. It’s clear that NYC’s new deputy mayor for operations has a passion for efficiency. He comes across as deeply attuned to the fact that we allocate much of […]

Questions Linger About Bloomberg’s New Livery Van Service

By Noah Kazis | Jun 24, 2010 | 7 Comments

Commuter vans, like this one in Sunset Park, could become a more common sight on New York’s streets. Image: The Brooklyn Ink. On Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg announced a new pilot program to provide livery van service for transit-starved neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, a proposal stemming from his 2009 campaign transit platform. The push to […]

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