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GRIPE SESSION: Departing Council Member Cumbo Gives Parting Gift to Car Owners
"The issue is also about parking," said Cumbo, one of many elected officials in this low-lying coastal city that fail to connect the dots between excessive driving and global climate change.
December 7, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: Supposedly Progressive Assembly Member in Queens Wants More Cars in Her District
She's proud ... of making climate change worse.
August 31, 2021
311 is a Joke: DOT Is Perfectly OK With a Blocked Bike Lane in Downtown Brooklyn
Here's another angry screed by our editor about a one-block bike lane in Brooklyn that is illegally blocked by construction workers ... and the DOT doesn't care.
July 13, 2021
UNCIVIL WAR! Parking-Obsessed Opponents of Health, Safety and Parks Berate DOT Officials for an Hour
Is this what democracy looks like? If so, can we try another system?
May 13, 2021
ANALYSIS: Mayor de Blasio Has Abandoned the Open Streets ‘Program’
It's been a terrible week for open streets, with a volunteer being attacked by a car owner, open streets equipment being vandalized, opponents circulating petitions ... and a mayor who remains silent.
April 12, 2021
CASE CLOSED: 311 Is A Joke — Sanitation Department Edition
The case is closed — but the junked bike remains.
February 25, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: What is Going On? Who’s In Charge? Why Are the Bike Lanes STILL A Mess 12 Days After a Storm?
I guess I'm tired of having to reach out to multiple agencies — Sanitation, DOT, Parks, the MTA, the NYPD, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Buildings — every time it snows to find out who's in charge.
February 14, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: Misguided Mayoral Campaigns — In Two Simple Maps
More than 40,000 people will be injured in car crashes in New York City this year. Yet we hear nothing about those victims.
December 6, 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
White Privilege on the Upper West Side: Board Condemns Police Brutality — Then Calls for More Cops!
A community board in the predominantly white Upper West Side says it supports the Black Lives Matter movement — then calls for more enforcement by the NYPD, which disproportionately targets blacks.
June 4, 2020
