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What NYC Needs Now: Public Space Management
A lively online session looks at the promise and pitfalls of open streets.
June 8, 2021
OPINION: When Schools Meet Streets, Good Things Happen
Good things happen — and children flourish — when school activities expand out of doors, a City Council candidate argues.
May 26, 2021
OPINION: Roll Back Cuomo’s Anti-Homeless Subway Rules
The MTA used the cover of the pandemic to discriminate against unhoused New Yorkers. Two bills would end the abuse.
May 7, 2021
OPINION: What Street Vendors Want From the Next Mayor
The Yang dust-up was only the latest in a long saga of slights. Here are the policies these small businesses demand.
April 19, 2021
OPINION: Citi Bike’s Lessons for Open Streets
Mayor de Blasio — who has it much easier than his predecessor when it comes to urban amenities — should follow the bike-share playbook, says a co-host of the "War on Cars" podcast.
April 16, 2021
Yang Calls For Permanent Open Streets Program With City Funding
The mayoral candidate said he would direct city funding to a permanent open streets program, a priority for open streets volunteers who need help to keep the popular program humming.
April 4, 2021
ANALYSIS: What IS de Blasio’s ‘Permanent Open Streets’ Plan Anyway?
Community groups are raising their own funding, volunteer ranks are thinning, drivers are getting aggressive — will this lone benefit of the pandemic collapse as the mayor dithers?
March 16, 2021
PARKING MADNESS 2021: An Upper Manhattan Battle of Two Heavyweights
It's the 3-0 vs. the 3-4 — and everyone has been waiting for this matchup for years.
March 9, 2021
Transportation Alternatives Wants Mayoral Candidates To Commit to 25% More Open Space
Vision Zero? How about Vision 25 by 25?
March 1, 2021
KOMANOFF: Don’t Regulate NYC Helicopter Flights, End Them
A noise, fuel and open space gives a preview of his City Council testimony on Wednesday.
February 16, 2021
