OPINION: What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?
We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.
May 4, 2021
Monday’s Headlines: The Shame of Staten Island Edition
As we mentioned last week, it must be terrible to work at the Staten Island Advance and care about the truth about road safety. Plus all the other news.
May 3, 2021
Friday’s Headlines: It’s Jessica Ramos Day
The Times dropped a mostly favorable profile of the state senator at roughly the same time we dropped a big story on open streets that quoted her as being less supportive of a permanent, 24-7 greenspace for park-starved Jackson Heights than she had been in the past. Plus other news.
April 30, 2021
See It: People Really Enjoy Open Streets When Cars are Banished
Kids having fun. Neighbors meeting neighbors. Everyone walking safe. And a lot of it!
April 29, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines: The New York Times’s Sincerest Form of Flattery Edition
We can die happy! The New York Times is getting its ideas from Streetsblog. That plus the rest of the news.
April 28, 2021
In His Own Words: One Deliverista Speaks About Not Being Allowed To Use A Bathroom
One delivery worker speaks out about basic human dignity that is denied him and his co-workers.
April 28, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines: Another Day, Another Busway Edition
Washington Heights was seeing red on Monday as the DOT made good on its promise to help beleaguered bus riders on a street that the city had been grappling with for a decade. Yes, W. 181st Street got its Busway. Plus other news.
April 27, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Bullies Are Destroying Sleepy de Blasio’s Open Streets ‘Program’
Our national treasure cartoonist knows what's going on with the city's open streets program: the mayor is not only asleep at the switch, but he's also turned his back to the real problem.
April 27, 2021
Monday’s Headlines: Respect for the Dead — and Living Edition
Shame on the New York Times for demeaning the death even as it honored the dead. Plus all the other news of the weekend.
April 26, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines: ‘It Wasn’t Us!’ Edition
The biggest story was the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd. But Gothamist also had a doozy about the latest failures of the de Blasio administration's open streets program.
April 21, 2021
