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Welcome to Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog launched in 2006 to cover livable streets and sustainable transportation issues in New York City. When we started, the mayor could still be heard in public saying that more traffic was good for the city. Improving streets for people who walk, bike, and ride the bus was not a top priority.

The blog quickly found an audience and became an influential voice, shaping the public debate about how our streets and public spaces should function. Tips poured in. Daily papers and TV broadcasts picked up our stories.

Our coverage amplified the message of transportation advocacy organizations and provided a unique counterweight to media coverage biased in favor of the car-centric status quo. Combined with Streetfilms'  focus on international transportation innovations, the blog showed how New York needed to catch up to cities reclaiming streets from cars and making room for safer, greener, more efficient modes of travel.

New York has made some highly visible changes in recent years, but reforming the way our streets are designed, managed, and policed takes time. Streetsblog continues to deliver high-impact reporting that frames the public debate on transportation and planning issues, creating momentum for the many important reforms that remain ahead of us.

More about Streetsblog

Streetsblog is a daily news source, online community and political mobilizer for the livable streets movement. We are part of a growing coalition of individuals and organizations in cities around the world working to transform our cities by reducing dependence on private automobiles and improving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders.

Today, Streetsblog’s online community and coalition of advocacy blogs is the connective fiber for a powerful national reform agenda. Individual Streetsblogs cover New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Capitol Hill. The Streetsblog Network connects local, grassroots transportation reform advocates with one another and with the inside-the-Beltway national campaign. With nearly 400 quality blogs on sustainable transport, smart growth, and livable streets issues, the Network reaches hundreds of thousands of readers each week.

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Who we are

Chairman:
Mark Gorton

Publisher:
Dan Kohn

Managing Director:
Carly Clark

Streetsblog Founding Editor:
Aaron Naparstek

Editor:
Benjamin Fried

Deputy Editor:
Brad Aaron

Reporter:
Noah Kazis

Contributors:
John Kaehny
Ethan Kent
Charles Komanoff
Alex Marshall

Streetsblog is produced by:
OpenPlans

Comment moderation policy

Streetsblog is a moderated forum. We work hard to maintain a high level of quality and collegiality in Streetsblog’s comments section. We may edit or delete ad hominem attacks, unnecessary or uncreative profanity, off-topic posts, lengthy or poorly written rants, flat-earth arguments and comments that we feel don’t add any real value to the conversation that’s underway.

Commenters who use a real name or established identity and have participated for some time in the online community will generally be given much more leeway than those who post anonymously.

We prefer that the Streetsblog comments not become a Livable Streets advocacy echo chamber. We encourage debate and are happy to see opposing viewpoints intelligently expressed and cogently argued in the comments section.


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