Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Word on the Street

Calling All Livable Streets Activists and Organizers

By Nick Grossman | Feb 4, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Open Planning Project (the producers of Streetsblog and Livable Streets Groups) is looking to enlist the help of neighborhood activists, community organizers, and grassroots leaders to help us build the next generation of online organizing tools. Are you trying to organize for change in your neighborhood, town, or city? Are you trying to take […]

Hit by a Car While Biking? Don’t Waste the NYPD’s Time

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 12, 2008 | 37 Comments

A Streetsblog reader named Jessica sends along yet another story of the NYPD’s failure to treat bike commuters as full-fledged citizens of the City of New York: This evening around 8pm I was biking home down 2nd Avenue in the bike lane. I had a front light, back light, a bell, and was wearing a […]

Cars Burned in Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2007 | 1 Comment

On the heels of conspiracy theories surrounding last week’s taxi fires, a Curbed tipster reports a rash of car burnings in Gowanus and Park Slope: I live on Sixth St, btwn 3rd and 4th Ave, Gowanus. I came home around midnight on Friday night…. when I went for a morning stroll on Saturday, I came […]

Officers Stopping Cyclists in Central Park

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2007 | 28 Comments

From Streetsblog commenter Steve: Project "Look" may include new programmatic law enforcement efforts targeting bicyclists. Each morning this week we were confronted by a Parks & Rec. Department law enforcement personnel operating checkpoints at different locations on the Central Park Loop. Today’s checkpoint was different than the previous two. There were two serial checkpoints, […]

Breaking News: 94th Precinct Clipping Bikes on Bedford Ave

By Jason Varone | Jun 28, 2007 | 25 Comments

Police officers from Brooklyn’s 94th precinct are, at this moment, clipping bike locks and seizing bicycles parked along Bedford Ave. according to Community Board 1 Transportation Chair Teresa Toro. The precinct gave Community Board members no advanced notice of the police action. Phone calls to the precinct have gone unanswered. Toro, who also works for […]

94th Precinct to Cyclists: Obey Traffic Rules

By Jason Varone | Jun 26, 2007 | 63 Comments

All of the bicycles parked on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg had these flyers stapled to them recently. The reverse side of the flyer has translations in Spanish & Polish. Thanks to Streetsblog tipster Laura for this one. She notes, "The 94th covers Greenpoint and most of Northside Williamsburg. Nothing in this statement about cracking down […]

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