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Emily Smith
@emhuntersmith.bsky.social
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Just a gal interested in the sustainability of human life generally + governance, land use, housing and transportation in cities specifically 🌇
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I'll be voting yes on all the NYC ballot referendums because we've got to disrupt the current system that has gotten us into this housing crisis in whatever way we can. amandalitman.substack.com/p/your-2025-...
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Great piece from @errollouis.bsky.social about how important a yes vote on ballot questions 2, 3, 4, 5 is to NYC’s ability to take on our affordability crisis.

You’ll see obfuscation and name-calling, but no solutions from those who say the current system is just fine.

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The Ballot Question That May Matter More Than the Mayoral Race
Voters have the chance to eliminate one of the central obstacles to New York’s housing crisis.
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it’s honestly crazy how the New York City council, at the behest of speaker Adrienne Adams, is illegally spending millions of your taxpayer dollars on an unhinged NIMBY propaganda campaign

if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing
my kink. getting my mouth taped shut by Vickie Paladino and Bob Holden when I try to build affordable housing in Queens
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@council.nyc.gov is blatantly violating the City Charter's prohibition on using government resources for electioneering with their mailers and social media posts opposing pro-housing measures 2-4. Chapter 49, §1136.1: there is no ambiguity about how illegal this is. www.nyccfb.info/law/charter/...
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New Yorkers: After voting for candidates who will fight for affordability on the front of your November ballots, flip↩️your ballot to vote YES on affordable housing proposals 2-5

So that New Yorkers like Austin can afford to stay in the neighborhoods that raised them.
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New Yorkers: After voting for candidates who will fight for affordability on the front of your November ballots, flip↩️your ballot to fight for affordability yourself by voting YES on Affordable Housing Ballot Measures 2-5!
"“This policy only deepens the criminalization of these essential workers, exposing them needlessly to deportation,” Los Deliveristas Unidos, which represents app-based delivery workers, wrote in a statement."
The best evidence that this new speed limit is a haphazard, half-assed initiative is that the Adams administration seemingly has no coherent plan for implementing it.

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Adams Is Going Forward With His 15 MPH E-Bike Crackdown
More pre-election pandering and other links to start your day.
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I support the Just Home proposal for safe, permanent housing for formerly incarcerated people w/ complex medical needs who’d otherwise face homelessness. A vocal opposition is fighting it. You can speak today at City Hall or email [email protected] by Friday to voice support.
Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for joining @transalt.org for the 34th Street Busway Victory Lap event today! So excited for a car-free 34th Street busway and a fully pedestrianized Broadway in Midtown South! 🚌 🎉
Come join the 34th Street Bus Race on Thursday! 🏁 🚌 🏃‍♀️ Should be very fun
📣 Rally: 4:30 PM at 3rd Ave & 34th Street
🏃‍♂️ Race: 5 PM
🏁 Finish Line: 8th Ave, 5:30 PM

We’re saying goodbye to slow and stalled buses. Let’s show Mayor Adams why 34th Street needs a busway NOW.

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Race Against the Bus on 34th Street · Transportation Alternatives
On Your Marks, Get Set, Race that Bus! Ever think you could walk faster than a rush-hour bus? On Thursday, August 7, join us to answer the age-old question: can we walk faster than the M34 bus durin...
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“Two bicyclists whisked by after 11 p.m. realizing—mid-ride—that the bike lane was being shorn off. One of them turned to their friend, perplexed: ‘Wait, are they getting rid of this?’” 😭 💔

Add your name to @transalt.org’s #BetterBedford Pledge 👉 transalt.org/blog/better-... #BikeNYC
Thank you Young Professionals in Transportation- NYC & @nyc-dot.bsky.social for last week’s Midtown & UES bike tour! 🚲🌆

We rode through protected lanes, shared streets, plazas, & the East Midtown Greenway — plus got to try out the new “green wave” signal timing on 3rd Ave. 😍

#StreetDesign #BikeNYC
Thanks @opennewyork.org for a great Long Island City walking tour today! 🏙️ 👟

Learned a lot about the ‪OneLIC Neighborhood Plan, a proposal to deliver 14,000+ homes to LIC, which is currently in the public review process (with a City Planning Commission hearing this Weds!) 👉 www.licplan.nyc
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Today is the universal daylighting hearing at the City Council! This morning, more than 130 New Yorkers rallied on the steps of City Hall to demand safer intersections.

@cmjuliewon.bsky.social's Intro 1138 is common-sense legislation that will save lives. It's time to pass it!
The @transalt.org 4th Annual Women’s Ride was so fun! 🌸🚲😍