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NYC: early voting starts today! Come out and vote yes on Props 2-5!
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
NYC: early voting starts today! Come out and vote yes on Props 2-5!
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Thank you, Brooklyn! Getting to represent the neighborhoods that raised me is the greatest privilege of my life.
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Thank you, Brooklyn! Getting to represent the neighborhoods that raised me is the greatest privilege of my life.
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More on that report here nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/18/n...
New DOT Report Questions Daylighting As Council Bill Gains Steam - Streetsblog New York City
Is DOT saying cars blocking your view is safe?
nyc.streetsblog.org
April 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
More on that report here nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/18/n...
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At today's NYC Council hearing on universal daylighting, CM Julie Won questions DOT's study data, which claims that it's not effective everywhere. She says the agency already had its conclusion set and worked backwards from there.
April 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
At today's NYC Council hearing on universal daylighting, CM Julie Won questions DOT's study data, which claims that it's not effective everywhere. She says the agency already had its conclusion set and worked backwards from there.
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UPDATE: In an uncharacteristically fiery press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Governor Kathy Hochul defended congestion pricing. New York's commuters, she said, will not be "the roadkill on President Trump's revenge tour against New York."
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Trump Moves to Kill Congestion Pricing. The MTA Is Suing to Save It [Updated]
The Feds have pulled their approval for the tolling plan. Supporters of congestion pricing say that doesn't matter.
hellgatenyc.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
UPDATE: In an uncharacteristically fiery press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Governor Kathy Hochul defended congestion pricing. New York's commuters, she said, will not be "the roadkill on President Trump's revenge tour against New York."
hellgatenyc.com/trump-king-n...
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Tech heroes are few and far between lately, but I think Vikram Oberoi qualifies.
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Why Vikram Oberoi Is Every NYC Journalist's Favorite New Yorker
His project, citymeetings.nyc, transcribes and summarizes *every* *single* City Council meeting.
hellgatenyc.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Tech heroes are few and far between lately, but I think Vikram Oberoi qualifies.
hellgatenyc.com/vikram-obero...
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T-minus 6 days until the launch of congestion pricing & I still couldn't tell you if it'll actually happen. Several potential judicial obstructions remain unsettled.
In the meantime, read my review of the year congestion pricing *almost* happened, again, 2024: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/2...
In the meantime, read my review of the year congestion pricing *almost* happened, again, 2024: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/2...
2024 in Review: The Year Congestion Pricing Almost Finally Happened (Again) - Streetsblog New York City
Kathy Hochul threw the MTA into chaos and may have handed the future of New York City's transit system to Donald Trump.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 30, 2024 at 9:32 PM
T-minus 6 days until the launch of congestion pricing & I still couldn't tell you if it'll actually happen. Several potential judicial obstructions remain unsettled.
In the meantime, read my review of the year congestion pricing *almost* happened, again, 2024: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/2...
In the meantime, read my review of the year congestion pricing *almost* happened, again, 2024: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/2...
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Cars Cause Vast Majority of Crashes in NYC—and Other Facts Booed by E-Bike Opponents at This Spicy City Council Hearing
Cars Cause Vast Majority of Crashes in NYC—and Other Facts Booed by E-Bike Opponents at This Spicy City Council Hearing
"So you're not trusting your own eyes that everybody is breaking the freaking law here?"
hellgatenyc.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Cars Cause Vast Majority of Crashes in NYC—and Other Facts Booed by E-Bike Opponents at This Spicy City Council Hearing
Holden, the sponsor of Intro 606, has headphones in and scrolling his phone while people testify against 606.
December 11, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Holden, the sponsor of Intro 606, has headphones in and scrolling his phone while people testify against 606.
$19 million initial cost for attempting to implement Intro 606 (licensing e-bikes). Legislation that has been shown to be ineffective in curbing pedestrian injuries in every city it’s been passed in, and has been repealed. Vickie Paladino and Robert Holden and want to throw away $19 million.
December 11, 2024 at 6:08 PM
$19 million initial cost for attempting to implement Intro 606 (licensing e-bikes). Legislation that has been shown to be ineffective in curbing pedestrian injuries in every city it’s been passed in, and has been repealed. Vickie Paladino and Robert Holden and want to throw away $19 million.
At the council meeting public hearing for Intro 606, I watched one of the guards walk up to one of the disruptive bike banners, shake his hand and say “glad to see a friendly face”. Curious that after being asked to remove disruptive people, nobody was removed.
December 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM
At the council meeting public hearing for Intro 606, I watched one of the guards walk up to one of the disruptive bike banners, shake his hand and say “glad to see a friendly face”. Curious that after being asked to remove disruptive people, nobody was removed.
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not funny. you might not like what he did for a living, but The Child Catcher had a family. he had a community. and no one deserves to have their head flensed by caractacus potts' hair cutting machine
December 5, 2024 at 11:28 AM
not funny. you might not like what he did for a living, but The Child Catcher had a family. he had a community. and no one deserves to have their head flensed by caractacus potts' hair cutting machine
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City of Yes is up for a vote on Thursday. If the City Council doesn't remove parking mandates citywide, and instead only gets rid of them near transit, the projected unit production gets cut in half. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/11/07/w...
Want Parking? Kiss Goodbye Half of the Projected Housing in 'City Of Yes' - Streetsblog New York City
Analysis: Modifications the mayor's City of Yes housing plan will result in less housing, experts say.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2024 at 3:42 PM
City of Yes is up for a vote on Thursday. If the City Council doesn't remove parking mandates citywide, and instead only gets rid of them near transit, the projected unit production gets cut in half. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/11/07/w...
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gm from the city (hall) of yes with union, faith, + housing leaders
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
gm from the city (hall) of yes with union, faith, + housing leaders
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Worth recalling how many powerful people and institutions were desperate to elevate a Black Dem who bashed BLM and the left. It was obvious in 2021 that Adams was corrupt and had no real interest in governing. www.politico.com/news/2022/05...
National Dems are calling in a new communications expert: Eric Adams
The New York mayor spoke last week at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event at the request of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
www.politico.com
September 26, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Worth recalling how many powerful people and institutions were desperate to elevate a Black Dem who bashed BLM and the left. It was obvious in 2021 that Adams was corrupt and had no real interest in governing. www.politico.com/news/2022/05...
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How people can be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty is much easier to explain if you realize it’s not about the value of human life. It’s about whether the state can control the lives of undesirables (women, minorities, the poor) from the womb to the grave).
September 25, 2024 at 12:07 AM
How people can be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty is much easier to explain if you realize it’s not about the value of human life. It’s about whether the state can control the lives of undesirables (women, minorities, the poor) from the womb to the grave).
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This article is more insane than I expected. It also shows just how detrimental it is to replace a leader with specific content expertise with someone who worked at Bain and has "efficiencies" expertise.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Man Who Made Nike Uncool
Instead of transforming the sneaker giant into a high-tech powerhouse, John Donahoe pissed off partners and disappointed fans.
www.bloomberg.com
September 14, 2024 at 2:07 AM
This article is more insane than I expected. It also shows just how detrimental it is to replace a leader with specific content expertise with someone who worked at Bain and has "efficiencies" expertise.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Wouldst thou like to live hydratedly
June 30, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Wouldst thou like to live hydratedly
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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans | Cornell Chronicle
Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.
news.cornell.edu
June 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
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I know people have feelings and many of them are valid but one thing about visible speed cameras besides dissuading speeding is they never end up shooting the driver like our other method of enforcement does
oh look at that www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
D.C. traffic cameras have led to sharp decline in speeding, data shows
The city has installed 477 traffic cameras. On some roads with the devices, citations fell by more than 95 percent. But traffic fatalities are still rising.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 16, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I know people have feelings and many of them are valid but one thing about visible speed cameras besides dissuading speeding is they never end up shooting the driver like our other method of enforcement does
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It’s outrageous to me that blowing through a red light is just a slap on the wrist but you can be arrested for jumping a turnstile. One of these is putting people’s lives at risk and it’s not the farebeating
June 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM
It’s outrageous to me that blowing through a red light is just a slap on the wrist but you can be arrested for jumping a turnstile. One of these is putting people’s lives at risk and it’s not the farebeating
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