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The 2009 Streetsie Awards, Part 2

By Ben Fried | | 16 Comments
Worst City Agency: Aching to build a huge parking deck but don’t have enough cash? The NYC Economic Development Corporation is here to help. This quasi-public agency’s predilection for financing suburban-style development was on full display in 2009. Two EDC specials held grand openings: The Gateway Center Mall on the South Bronx waterfront, with its […]

The 2009 Streetsie Awards, Part 1

By Ben Fried | | 5 Comments
Here’s the first slate of winners in our annual binge of award-giving, the Streetsies. You may want to review the people’s choice poll results before diving in. We’ll be rolling out two more installments before the new year and resuming our regular publishing schedule on Monday, January 4. Enjoy… Biggest Livable Streets Victory: 2009 will […]

Cast Your Vote for the 2009 Streetsies

By Ben Fried | | 11 Comments
Streetsblog is about to go dark for the holiday, so we’ve got something that will hopefully keep you satisfied until Monday. Polls. Lots of polls. The last thing we publish every year is the Streetsies, our final burst of awards and commentary. This time we’re adding a "people’s choice" wrinkle. The voting is open in […]

The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 5

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
Best Spontaneous Livable Streets Moment: Joyous New Yorkers take to the streets to celebrate Barack Obama’s victory. Movement of the Year: This year we saw cities across the U.S competing to run the first, biggest and best Bogota-style Ciclovia events. San Francisco debuted Sunday Streets (after local activists sat Mayor Gavin Newsom down in front […]

The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 4

By Aaron Naparstek | | 15 Comments
Worst City Agency: The NYPD. If they’re in a good mood, they’ll summons you for no apparent reason. If they’re in a bad mood, they’ll body slam you off your bike. They drive recklessly through city parks in their off-duty hours and park their vehicles in bus lanes, bike lanes — pretty much wherever they […]

The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 3

By Aaron Naparstek | | 15 Comments
Bureaucrat of the Year: In just a year-and-a-half, Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan has transformed New York City’s Department of Transportation into the envy of city transportation agency officials across the country (OK, maybe Portland, Oregon where the former DOT commissioner was elected mayor isn’t envious). In this Streetfilm, Sadik-Khan shows off and explains some of the […]
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