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BEEP BEEP! StreetsPAC Makes its Picks in Three Borough President Races
Let's meet the lucky three who have earned the street safety bump: Mark Levine (Manhattan), Antonio Reynoso (Brooklyn) and Donovan Richards (Queens).
June 3, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: The Upper West Side is Pissing on NYC Heroes
The fauxgressives of the Upper West Side have really pissed off our cartoonist.
May 12, 2021
Upper West Side Board to Discuss Bathroom Rights — But Without the Victims!
There won't be any delivery workers at next Wednesday's hearing to discuss a proposal to encourage restaurants to let the workers use the bathroom. That would be too "chaotic," one board member in the supposedly progressive neighborhood said.
May 7, 2021
Queens Borough President Reappoints Community Board Member Who Said Pedestrians ‘Deserve’ to Die
“Democracy is at its strongest when the voices of all the people it serves are elevated," Beep Donovan Richards said. And that apparently goes for Kim Ohanian, too.
April 7, 2021
Upper East Side Candidate Julie Menin Aims To Rein in the FDR Drive
An East Side council hopeful's transportation plan shows the safe-streets movement has penetrated the mainstream.
March 22, 2021
DOT Installs Lower Manhattan Cargo Bike Zone Despite Community Board ‘Nay’
This is good news for anyone who supports safe streets, less congestion, less pollution and better use of public land, advocates say.
November 24, 2020
CYCLE OF RAGE: DOT Begins Arduous Process of Getting a Queens Community Board to Enter the 21st Century
The process that the Department of Transportation uses to make city roadways safer and more hospitable to human being is a broken one. An opinion piece from last night's CB3 meeting in Queens.
October 29, 2020
City Plans Avenue C, Houston Street Protected Bike Lanes
The proposal comes as the East River Park and greenway will close for flood remediation.
October 28, 2020
KOMANOFF: Blame the NIMBYs And Exxon
We can't deem fossil fuel villains solely responsible for the climate crisis if unelected NIMBY’s are able to delay, water down or block seemingly every path to cut carbon emissions.
October 28, 2020
A Round and a Roundy: The DOT Dot Does it Again
Just when you thought the Department of Transportation was all set to usher in a new era of repurposing parking spaces for public use, that cute little DOT just had to go and ask for community board approval.
October 27, 2020
