Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

So Mayor de Blasio gave all the public school kids a day off because of the snow, meaning that parents all over the city are scrambling to make alternate arrangements so they don’t lose their jobs. We have to point out that this might not be happening if the mayor hadn’t given free parking to […]

Wait a second: There’s a kid’s book about parking lots? Yes! And it may be the only kid’s book blurbed by parking guru and Friend of Streetsblog Donald Shoup. We found out about it, thanks to a tip from our friends at the “War on Cars” podcast. The book apparently teaches kids how many better things […]

Wow, what a day. We got to watch the mayor get chauffeured from the Upper East Side to his Park Slope gym, then watch him walk two blocks to the subway (while someone else drove his car to City Hall), then watch him pitch his congestion pricing-MTA restructuring plan to straphangers, then be asked a […]

Yesterday was the much-loved busy news day, with the mayor begrudgingly admitting he supports congestion pricing, the governor unveiling an entirely new level of bureaucracy to run the MTA that he’s run so poorly the last eight years, and Council Member Jumaane Williams finally earning his rising star status by winning the Public Advocate special […]

Vote today as if your life depended on it because, you never know, it may. Like, say your life depends on congestion pricing becoming a reality, you probably shouldn’t vote for Eric Ulrich, who declined through a spokesperson to even fill out Streetsblog’s candidate questionnaire (“Councilman Ulrich has been clear throughout this campaign that he […]

On Sunday, the Daily News double-barreled the pain with Clayton Guse’s story about declining ridership (prompting a solid Aaron Gordon tweet) and Dan Rivoli’s exclusive about how the MTA is already backtracking on the number of stations it says it can make handicapped-accessible — which advocates predicted last month would happen. And the paper’s op-ed section […]