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By Clarence Eckerson

Streetfilms: Excuses

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2008 | 6 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was walking around Manhattan one day last summer feeling what he describes as "a little sympathy for what it must be like to be a ticket writer in this town." He turned on his ever-present video camera and began shooting illegally parked cars and the variety of placards, badges and hand-scrawled notes […]

StreetFilm: The Street Life of Havana

By Ben Fried | Feb 26, 2008 | 40 Comments

Ethan Kent of Project for Public Spaces recently returned from a trip to Havana with a trove of pictures, cut together in this Streetfilm by Nick Whitaker. Whatever changes are in store for the country in the wake of Fidel Castro’s departure from power, these images make clear that the dense, flourishing street life of […]

Streetfilm: NYC Bike Move

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 22, 2008 | 33 Comments

Inspired by a previous Streetfilm from Portland, Oregon, filmmaker Nicholas Whitaker decided to answer the challenge and bring you, "Bike Move Too." When his girlfriend Jes Schultz was priced out of her Fort Greene Brooklyn apartment, they decided to call a few friends with bikes and move her out, futon and all, to a new […]

Peñalosa to New York Pols: BRT & Pricing Benefit Working Class

By Ben Fried | Feb 20, 2008 | 11 Comments

Streetfilms captured highlights of Enrique Penalosa’s appearance with COMMUTE. One of the most entrenched fallacies in the congestion pricing debate has been the assertion that blue-collar New Yorkers get the short end of the stick. The claim never withstood scrutiny, but now it is facing an especially strong counterargument from Communities United for Transportation Equity […]

Mary Beth Kelly: From Tragedy to Advocacy

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 18, 2008 | 7 Comments

Mary Beth Kelly’s story is as inspirational as they come. In June 2006, she and her husband Dr. Carl Henry Nacht were bicycling home from dinner on the Hudson River Greenway in Chelsea when an NYPD tow truck turned sharply into the bike lane at 38th Street and 12th Avenue. Despite signs telling drivers to […]

StreetFilm: Raising the Walk

By Brad Aaron | Feb 13, 2008 | 12 Comments

From the StreetFilms animation division, which brought you the chicane, comes another instant classic, this one illustrating the benefits of the raised crosswalk — basically a wide speed hump with a crosswalk on top. Raised crosswalks have been recommended for areas including Hell’s Kitchen and the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, where speeding traffic and turn […]

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