Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. He is the author of Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage, a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the unique brand of motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Naparstek lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. He is a founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and an organizer of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.
aaron@naparstek.com

Posts by Aaron

2011
Jan 26: Some Great Story Ideas for New York Post Reporter John Doyle 11
2010
Jan 19: Naparstek Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Streetsblog 34
2009
Oct 05: NYPD’s Bedford Avenue Circular Saw Massacre Caught on Tape 18
Oct 05: Today’s Headlines 10
Oct 02: Today’s Headlines 5
Sep 28: On Tuesday Your Vote is Really Going to Count 3
Sep 14: New Yorkers: Tomorrow Your Vote Really Counts! 17
Aug 07: Today’s Headlines 6
Jun 26: The House Is Debating Its Climate Legislation Right Now [Updated] 1
Jun 26: Today’s Headlines 5
Jun 25: Live Webcast: Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing 0
Jun 25: Nothing Says Tranquility Like the Hum of a Huge Diesel Engine 5
Jun 23: DOT Responds to Park Slope Bike Lane Uprising With Thermoplast Surge 4
Jun 11: Tweeting Live from the Congress for the New Urbanism in Denver 1
Jun 09: Introducing Streetsblog Capitol Hill 6
Jun 05: Save the Tour de Brooklyn! Free Beer! 1
May 28: Google Bike Parking 20
May 26: The Crossroads of the World Goes Car-Free 29
May 24: Car-Free Space Is an Instant Hit on Broadway 36
May 21: Sean Sweeney Redefines “T.A. StreetBeat” 23
May 20: On TV Tonight… 15
May 20: Should I Wear a Helmet Today? 70
May 15: Welcome Elana Schor, Streetsblog’s New National Reporter 11
May 14: LaHood to Streetsblog: No, I’m Not Changing the Name of My Blog 22
May 06: Will Barbara Boxer Stand Up for Sustainable Transportation? 1
Apr 28: Livable Streets Initiative Spring Event: You’re Invited! 1
Apr 20: Open Source Your Streets Tonight on 91.1 FM, 7pm 0
Mar 27: The Day After 22
Mar 20: Union Street Becomes a “Secret Garden” 6
Mar 19: Schluffing or Dorklocross? 50
Mar 18: The Four Stooges 11
Mar 17: The State Senate’s MTA Financing Plan Doesn’t Add Up 5
Mar 16: Kruger: MTA Funding Plan Will Be “So Outside the Box.” 27
Mar 16: Talking Traffic Justice With Leslie Crocker Snyder 17
Mar 12: We’re Hiring: Cover the Capitol for Streetsblog 4
Mar 12: MTA Funding and Bike-Ped Relations on Brian Lehrer 4
Mar 02: Next American City Invites You to Their Spring Party, Thursday 6
Feb 26: More Detail on NYC’s Car-Free Broadway Plan 3
Feb 26: Bloomberg Puts Forward a Bold, Transformative New Vision for Broadway 67
Feb 25: Welcome to Our New Design 3
Feb 24: Change is Coming to Streetsblog and the Livable Streets Network 8
Feb 13: Livable Streets Leaders Are NY’s Most Beautiful Politicos 17
Feb 11: Teresa Toro is Back in the Saddle at Community Board 1 4
Feb 03: Install a Widget. Build a Movement. 11
Feb 03: Stimulus + Mass Transit = Opportunity 3
Feb 02: Wanted: A New Traffic Boss for New York City 21
Jan 21: The Last Thing This Nation Needs 21
Jan 16: BYO Bike Lane 12
Jan 13: New York City Wins the 2009 Sustainable Transport Award 9
Jan 08: Streetsblog San Francisco is Online! 3
Jan 07: Metro-North Makes Its M-7 Train Cars More Bike-Friendly 38
Jan 06: Brennan Center: Albany’s “Still Broken” 6
Jan 02: The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 5 1
Jan 01: The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 4 15
2008
Dec 31: The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 3 15
Dec 30: The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 2 21
Dec 29: The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 1 11
Dec 24: Stay Tuned for the 2008 Streetsies… 9
Dec 24: The Livable Streets Backlash Claims a Victim at Brooklyn’s CB1 25
Dec 24: Today’s Headlines 12
Dec 18: Same.gov: A Transportation Secretary Who’s Hard to Believe In 25
Dec 17: Done Deal: Obama Picks LaHood as Transpo Secretary 19
Dec 16: Cartoon Tuesday: Dinosaurs 0
Dec 16: Channel 13 Poll: Tolls on the East River Bridges? 11
Dec 15: Get Ready for Streetsblog San Francisco 30
Dec 12: LSN Member of the Week: Mr. Theo 0
Dec 08: Alan Gerson Wants Greater “Review” of DOT Bike Safety Plans 20
Dec 08: Weiner, Ravitch and Gridlock Sam on Lehrer This Morning 0
Nov 21: Merge 3
Nov 20: Dingell Wanes as Waxman Takes Over Energy and Commerce 4
Nov 05: Obamites: “Yes We Can!” NYPD: “Traffic First” 23
Oct 31: Newt Gingrich: I Vant to Suck Your Oil 12
Oct 23: Four More Years 27
Oct 23: Shaping the 2009 Transpo Debate: Rockefeller Foundation’s Nick Turner 8
Oct 06: Anyone Biking Over the Brooklyn Bridge With a Camera This Evening? 13
Sep 29: Gasoline-Starved Atlantans Twitter for Gallons 9
Sep 29: Jim Kunstler on the Bail Out and What’s Next 9
Sep 19: More Scenes from Park(ing) Day 2008 New York City 7
Sep 17: Culture War on Wheels 18
Sep 03: Pin it on Shelly! 46
Sep 02: Cartoon Tuesday: Back to School 0
Aug 27: Is NYC’s “Sustainable Streets” Plan a Communist Plot? 12
Aug 26: Cartoon Tuesday: Conventional Wisdom 0
Aug 26: Budnick v. Anderson on “Talk of the Nation” This Afternoon 22
Aug 25: Sadik-Khan to Discuss Transpo Funding at the Democratic Convention 6
Aug 08: Orioles Pitcher Throws a High Hard One at Car Commuting 10
Aug 07: Juan Valdez and Jay-Z Invite New Yorkers to Take to the Streets 6
Aug 06: Energy Policy Straight Talk From Elizabeth Kolbert 7
Aug 05: Williamsburg Walks in the Rain 9
Aug 01: Separated Bike Path Isn’t Gay Enough for CB4 38
Jul 29: Cartoon Tuesday: The Elegant Simplicity of the Free Market 0
Jul 29: Summer Streets 2
Jul 29: The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for Highways 17
Jul 29: “Traffic” Author Tom Vanderbilt on Leonard Lopate Today at Noon 0
Jul 29: Today’s Headlines 5
Jul 28: Make Queens Boulevard a Complete Street 23
Jul 25: $36,000,000,000 for Corn. $0 for Transit. 16
Jul 25: The Pentagon Burns 395,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day 6
Jul 24: Wanted: A Progressive DOT Director for Washington D.C. 8
Jul 23: Livable Streets Projects Getting Hung Up in Budget Bureaucracy? 2
Jul 23: Robert Novak Cited in Possible Hit-and-Run 13
Jul 23: Print This 4
Jul 22: Evaluating Summer Streets 29
Jul 22: Forbes Rates North America’s Most Bike-Friendly Cities 11
Jul 22: Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America 36
Jul 21: Al Gore Connects the Dots 32
Jul 21: Auto Dealers, Parking Garages and, Well, Lots of Others Fund Shelly 5
Jul 21: Williamsburg Walks: Opening Up Bedford Avenue 9
Jul 18: Richard Florida: Decline of the Burbs is Not Just About Gas Prices 9
Jul 18: Is San Fran More Walkable Than NYC? 32
Jul 18: Tom Vanderbilt Ponders Motorist Sociopathy 14
Jul 18: Today’s Headlines 9
Jul 17: Touring the East Side Access Tunnel, Surrounded By Schist 19
Jul 16: Rising Demand for Transit Could Be a “Turning Point” 3
Jul 16: Williamsburg Walks: Volunteer Orientation Tonight 2
Jul 16: Crips and Bloods Feeling the Pinch of Rising Gas Prices? 2
Jul 16: New Bike Markings for North Greenpoint 13
Jul 15: Happy Birthday, Vélib 1
Jul 14: Et Tu, Mister Softee? 49
Jun 25: Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now. 0
Jun 11: Welcome to the Livable Streets Network 20
Jun 10: Streetsblog Will Be Offline Wednesday Morning 3
Jun 05: Get a Sneak Peak at Our Big Redesign and Give Your Feedback 2
May 27: Help Wanted: Identify the Best Livable Streets Blogs. $20/Hour. 22
May 21: Do Alternate Side Parking Rules Increase Traffic Congestion? 40
May 20: Chrysler: Let’s Ruin America! 40
May 16: Amsterdam? Copenhagen? Nope: NYC. 62
May 15: Revenge of the Free Riders 21
May 15: It’s Man Vs. Car in NYC and Tim Robbins is “The Rectifier” 16
May 14: Pricing Foe Hakeem Jeffries Demands G Train Service Increase 4
May 13: Ken Coughlin, Leading Car-Free Park Activist, Suffers Heart Attack 19
May 12: Cleveland Indians Ace Cliff Lee: The Southpaw Straphanger 5
May 05: Feds Launch New Pedestrian Safety Program 8
May 05: Sign a Petition to Clinton and McCain at GasTaxScam.com 2
Apr 29: Chicago Gets NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money 19
Apr 17: Looking for a New State Legislator? Try Craigslist. 30
Apr 15: Après Congestion Pricing, It’s Time to Look at the Paris Model 19
Apr 15: Today’s Headlines 6
Apr 07: Keep Hope Alive? 6
Apr 07: With Congestion Pricing Dead, a $17 Billion Transit Deficit Looms 34
Apr 04: If Congestion Pricing Fails, Rest Assured, There’s Always Plan B 8
Apr 03: Ad Nauseam: State Farm on the Humiliation of Biking to Work 60
Apr 02: Brodsky Presents Dems With a Choice: God’s Love or Al D’Amato 21
Apr 02: We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany? 9
Apr 01: NY1 Poll: How do You Want Your Legislator to Vote? 4
Mar 27: Robots Against Congestion Pricing 20
Mar 27: Queens Pols Rally to Keep Using Gioia’s District as Their Doormat 12
Mar 24: Rev. Billy Preaches Bikes & Transit at the NYC Auto Show 5
Mar 14: The Onion: Feds Unveil $270 Billion Program for Bad Drivers 4
Mar 13: London’s Very Cool “Look Out for Cyclists” Ad 10
Mar 12: Details of the Mayor’s Residential Parking Permit Proposal 53
Mar 12: Mayor Bloomberg Announces New Residential Parking Program 5
Mar 12: Hit by a Car While Biking? Don’t Waste the NYPD’s Time 37
Mar 11: Fidler on the Sidewalk 23
Mar 11: Traffic Jam on a Petri Dish 3
Mar 07: Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal 81
Mar 06: Is an NYPD Bike Crackdown Underway? 10
Mar 06: Lessons from Bogotá, Part III (9:58) 8
Mar 06: Today’s Headlines 13
Mar 03: Introducing Streetsblog Los Angeles 6
Feb 29: Hakeem Jeffries Stands With Westchester on Congestion Pricing 30
Feb 28: Streetfilms: Excuses 6
Feb 27: The Definition of Automobile Dependence 8
Feb 22: Citywide Ferry Service Could Cost $100M Annually 16
Feb 22: Today’s McMansions, Tomorrow’s Tenements 19
Feb 21: Help Wanted: Streetswiki Writing Talent 11
Feb 20: Congestion Pricing Populist Soundbite Contest 22
Feb 20: Ideas Competition for Brooklyn’s Grandest Plaza 17
Feb 20: Missing: Urban Policy in the Presidential Campaign 4
Feb 19: Today’s Headlines 3
Feb 13: Brodsku 6
Feb 12: Quinn Calls for Comprehensive Citywide Ferry Service 44
Feb 12: London Imposes $50 Guzzler Fee on SUVs and Lux Roadsters 12
Feb 11: Supermodels Demand an Auto-Free New York 21
Feb 11: Has Richard Brodsky Ever Paid a Subway Fare? 22
Feb 08: State Senator’s Car is Towed During Congestion Pricing Meeting 10
Feb 07: Tale of Two Cities: Bicycling in Chicago and Los Angeles 5
Feb 05: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow 1
Feb 05: Look Who’s Pledged to be an Obama Delegate… 10
Feb 05: Who is the Livable Streets Candidate? 13
Jan 31: Commission Approves Pricing. Next Stop: City Council 18
Jan 31: Congestion Commission Recommendation: First Look 44
Jan 31: Pricing Recs to Include Residential Parking Permits 1
Jan 25: Proof That Congestion Pricing Supporters Do Exist in Queens 15
Jan 24: Testify! Public Hearings on Congestion Pricing Tonight 7
Jan 24: Next Monday: How You Can Transform New York City Streets 7
Jan 22: Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah? 54
Jan 22: Queens Parking Workshop Turns to Talk of Motorist “Rights” 61
Jan 18: Gridlock Sam: Mayor’s Placard Reduction Plan is Step One of Ten 15
Jan 17: NYPD Tow Pound is Still a Major Source of Greenway Danger 15
Jan 14: Our Improved Calendar and Upcoming Events 1
Jan 14: Who Are You Nominating for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal? 7
Jan 11: Hans Monderman: In Memoriam 0
Jan 11: Another New Bike Shelter 12
Jan 11: Brodsky Taxes Milk! Toll Plazas Will be Named After Marc Shaw! 23
Jan 09: How About Two Bike Lanes Per Street? 58
Jan 08: Hans Monderman, Engineer of Livable Streets, 1947-2008 5
Jan 08: What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza? 2
Jan 08: At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot 16
Jan 08: Nature’s Traffic Count 7
Jan 08: Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now 41
Jan 07: Weingarten: “Teachers Are Not Abusers of Parking Permits” 58
Jan 04: A Year After Eric Ng’s Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
Jan 04: Half Moon Over the Brooklyn Bridge 12
Jan 04: Today’s Headlines 3
Jan 03: City Hall to Reduce Parking Placards 20% and Centralize Control 44
Jan 03: Kitty Justice: The Thai Solution for Police Parking Placard Abuse 3
Jan 03: Today’s Headlines 0
Jan 02: Holiday Headlines 16
2007
Dec 25: The Streetsies 37
Dec 24: Merry Gridlock! 17
Dec 21: Stay Tuned for the 2007 Streetsies 1
Dec 21: Merry Christmas Chinatown 8
Dec 21: Donald Shoup Plays With Parking Fees and Matchbox Cars 16
Dec 19: Highlights of Monday’s Traffic Commission Meeting 2
Dec 19: Shocker: MTA Board Approves Fare Hike 32
Dec 19: Eyes on the Street: Snow Day 2
Dec 17: Janette Sadik-Khan: A Reason to Love NYC in 2007 10
Dec 17: New Spin: Save the Mayor’s Congestion Plan by Modifying It 8
Dec 14: Running the Christmas Tree Gauntlet 19
Dec 13: Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion 7
Dec 13: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas? 8
Dec 13: Is the Mayor Reading Streetsblog on His Bloomberg Terminal? 8
Dec 13: Unlike the Knicks, “New York’s Team” Takes the Subway to Work 14
Dec 12: Shoup Dogg, Parking Policy Cult Hero, Fills Fordham Auditorium 47
Dec 12: Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable 28
Dec 11: Highlights of Yesterday’s Traffic Commission Meeting 47
Dec 11: NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work 56
Dec 11: New Grand Army Plaza Concept is “Brilliantly Obvious” 16
Dec 11: Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion 19
Dec 11: Today’s Headlines 11
Dec 10: This Holiday Season London’s Streets Are “Absolutely Jammed” 26
Dec 10: Is America Finally Getting Interested in Passenger Rail? 18
Dec 10: More Boring Photos 6
Dec 10: Radiohead: A Rock Band With a Firm Grasp of Urban Planning 5
Dec 10: Shoup on Lehrer 4
Dec 10: Today’s Headlines 9
Dec 07: Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing 18
Dec 06: New York Times Employees Say Renzo Forgot the Bike Parking 52
Dec 05: Chinatown Placard Abusers Get the Hook 23
Dec 04: Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections 9
Dec 03: This is the Pedestrian Refuge Area That CB8 Refused to Protect 41
Nov 30: MTA Chief Lee Sander Gets Megamodal 4
Nov 29: NYC’s “Flawed” Traffic Plan Brought to You by… Toyota 11
Nov 29: Compromise “Ruled the Day” at Congestion Pricing Hearings 1
Nov 28: ~~$115~~ $230 Summons for NASCAR Driver #19 Elliott Sadler 12
Nov 28: T.A. Responds to Fidler’s Tax’n'Tunnel Pipe Dream 5
Nov 28: New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars 35
Nov 28: NYC.gov Holiday Traffic Plan Makes Way for NASCAR 3
Nov 27: NYPD Emerges as New Focus for NYC’s Livable Streets Movement 38
Nov 26: TSTC.org Would Be More Thankful If… 4
Nov 19: NYC Voters Oppose Pricing Unless it Helps Prevent a Fare Hike 37
Nov 19: Alan Durning’s “Year of Living Carlessly” and “Bicycle Neglect” 2
Nov 19: Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a “Fringe” Idea 12
Nov 19: Today’s Headlines 11
Nov 15: 30 Firms Submit Proposals for NYC’s Congestion Pricing System 11
Nov 15: Prince Street Bike Lane Has Arrived 16
Nov 14: Brian Ketcham Proposes a “Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix” 41
Nov 13: Weiner Imagines Paying for His Traffic Plan With a Gas Tax Raise 40
Nov 13: You Can be a Streetsblog Contributor Too 1
Nov 12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
Nov 12: Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy 14
Nov 12: Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists 18
Nov 09: MTA Chief Links Congestion Pricing to Fare Hike… or Not 35
Nov 09: Take the NYC Bike Parking Survey 2
Nov 09: Pedestrians Fight Back in Athens, Greece 4
Nov 08: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
Nov 08: Streetsblog Index 3
Nov 08: Rally at City Hall for Pedestrian Safety Legislation, 12:45 Today 2
Nov 07: StreetFilms: Upper West Side Streets Renaissance With Jan Gehl 9
Nov 06: Staten Islanders Keeping an Open Mind on Congestion Pricing 25
Nov 06: The Trafficist 4
Nov 06: Upper West Side Renaissance on WNYC 3
Nov 06: Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance 39
Nov 06: Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM 5
Nov 05: Gridlock Sam’s Compromise Plan 24
Nov 05: Gehl on Wheels 9
Nov 05: Today’s Headlines 10
Nov 02: “A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side” 2
Nov 02: Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo 18
Nov 02: The Intermediate Stage Between Humans and Pure Energy 4
Nov 02: Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax” 13
Nov 02: Bloomberg Declares Support for a National Carbon Tax 7
Nov 02: Today’s Headlines 4
Nov 01: Low Turnout But Surprising Support at Bronx Congestion Hearing 8
Nov 01: Lew Fidler’s “9 CARAT STONE” Traffic Plan Arrives 84
Nov 01: Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison 18
Nov 01: Today’s Headlines 10
Oct 31: Celebrating Livable Streets on the Day of the Dead 8
Oct 31: Congestion Pricing Supporters Speak Up in Queens 10
Oct 31: Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard 11
Oct 31: RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side 2
Oct 31: Jan Gehl: Half of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike 1
Oct 31: Bloomberg Visits the Bronx. Dinowitz Anti-Pricing Rally Fizzles. 3
Oct 31: Today’s Headlines 16
Oct 30: The M23 Bus Earns the 2007 Pokey Award 8
Oct 30: Today’s Headlines 3
Oct 29: The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will 33
Oct 29: Bruno: “The people who travel around are taxed enough.” 7
Oct 29: Correcting Thursday’s MTA Bike Seizure Correction 5
Oct 29: Today’s Headlines 8
Oct 26: The Weekly Carnage 35
Oct 25: MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules. 23
Oct 24: Senator Duane Takes a Swipe at DOT for 9th Ave. Bike Lane 16
Oct 24: Now the MTA is Stealing Bikes in Williamsburg 65
Oct 18: Tykes on Bikes 1
Oct 18: Who is Richard Brodsky? 14
Oct 18: Rangers New Center is Happy to Be Back on His Bike 2
Oct 15: Idle Hands 27
Oct 12: Here is the Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free Report 3
Oct 12: Anti-Congestion Pricing Group Suggests Alternatives 19
Oct 11: Caption Contest: MTA Public Outreach Strategy 25
Oct 11: Bronx Traffic Relief Forum Tonight, 7:30pm, Riverdale Temple 2
Oct 10: Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on “Faulty Assumptions” 22
Oct 10: Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don’t Care? 28
Oct 09: Truck Drivers Confusing New Cycle Track for Unloading Zone 80
Oct 09: Today’s Headlines 21
Oct 08: MTA Says it Needs More Money for Congestion Pricing 10
Oct 08: 1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes” 5
Oct 05: Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform 35
Oct 04: GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship 0
Oct 04: A Ride Down NYC’s “Street of the Future” 35
Oct 03: Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup 9
Oct 03: New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place 18
Oct 02: DOT Minds the GAP 9
Oct 02: Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics 39
Oct 02: MTA Chief Lee Sander Talks Congestion Pricing in Queens 4
Oct 02: Today’s Headlines 1
Oct 01: Today’s Headlines 7
Sep 28: Portland Sees Explosive Growth in Bicycling 21
Sep 27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7
Sep 27: More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle 15
Sep 26: Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission Opens for Business 20
Sep 25: Traffic Mitigation Commission Meeting Pre-Spin 7
Sep 25: New York City Ate My Bicycle 34
Sep 25: Today’s Headlines 6
Sep 24: If Cyclists Think They’ve Got it Bad in NYC, Check Out L.A. 8
Sep 24: StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007 8
Sep 21: Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar 19
Sep 21: Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom 4
Sep 21: Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot? 13
Sep 20: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path 138
Sep 20: Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 4 12
Sep 19: Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 3 14
Sep 18: Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 2 6
Sep 17: Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 1 27
Sep 14: German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals 8
Sep 14: D.C. to Establish Bike Parking Requirements 3
Sep 14: Parking Enforcement is the Killer App 5
Sep 12: Gridlock Sam Offers Four Ideas to Cut Traffic Congestion 16
Sep 12: The Transportation Alternatives Century Ride 2007 3
Sep 11: Meeting Tonight: Help Get More Bike Parking for SoHo 0
Sep 11: Useful Idiots 29
Sep 11: Parking Revenue Declining, London Borough Lures Back Drivers 7
Sep 10: Nasty, Personal, Elitist and Not a Bronxite 25
Sep 07: Pedestrian Safety Tips & Anti-Pricing Talking Points From AAA 22
Sep 07: Give Me Traffic Congestion or Give Me Death 12
Sep 06: Bicycles Are the New NYC “It Girl” Fashion Accessory 35
Sep 06: On Behalf of 5.2% of His Constituents, Dinowitz Opposes Pricing 54
Sep 06: Today’s Headlines 13
Sep 04: Infinite Jest 4
Sep 04: Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition 0
Aug 31: Happy Labor Day Weekend 6
Aug 31: City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening 13
Aug 29: Trek: A Bike Maker Flexes Some Advocacy Muscle 5
Aug 29: Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled 5
Aug 28: Celebrating a Car-Free Afternoon In Prospect Park 12
Aug 28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25
Aug 24: First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan 18
Aug 24: DOT Seeks Assistant Commissioner for Congestion Pricing 4
Aug 24: Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better 17
Aug 24: Lew Fidler Laments Impending Loss of Parking Permit 4
Aug 24: Today’s Headlines 4
Aug 15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood “Living Room” 5
Aug 14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
Aug 14: Feds to NYC: “Get on the Bus” 25
Aug 14: Details of the US DOT’s $354.5 Million Grant to NYC 3
Aug 14: Responses to $354 Million Federal Congestion Pricing Grant 29
Aug 14: US DOT Gives NYC $354 Million for Congestion Pricing Plan 1
Aug 13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3
Aug 13: Commish Benepe Gently Reminds “Parkies” to Drive Safely 5
Aug 13: What Up, G? 1
Aug 13: Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing 4
Aug 13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3
Aug 10: In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge 10
Aug 10: City Launches “Public Plaza Initiative” at DUMBO Pocket Park 21
Aug 09: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1
Aug 08: The Storm of ’07 and the Commute of 8/8 8
Aug 08: Open Thread: How Was Your Commute This Morning? 77
Aug 08: When a Car Does the Killing, It’s Always an “Accident.” 11
Aug 08: Today’s Headlines 9
Aug 07: Hello, Dolly! 45
Aug 07: City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility 15
Aug 07: Congestion Pricing Questions the Mayor Will Need to Answer 23
Aug 07: Today’s Headlines 6
Aug 06: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the “Highway to Nowhere” 7
Aug 06: 20 City Council Members Support or Lean Towards Pricing 9
Aug 06: Parks Dept. Confirms New Employee Parking Policy 0
Aug 06: Central Park No Longer a Parking Lot for City Employees 15
Aug 06: Today’s Headlines 13
Aug 03: Grist: NYC is Not One of the World’s Greenest Cities 55
Aug 03: Manhattan Bridge Bikeway to Reopen on Monday 12
Aug 03: Today’s Headlines 10
Aug 02: Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting 0
Aug 02: Today’s Headlines 3
Aug 01: Congestion Pricing Returns to Stockholm 5
Aug 01: Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side 17
Aug 01: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3
Aug 01: August 1 Congestion Pricing Deadline Has Been Met 1
Aug 01: Mayor Bloomberg’s Morning Commute 42
Aug 01: August 1: The Mayor Shall Submit the Traffic Mitigation Plan 0
Jul 31: Official Statement on Central Park Car-Free Hours Increase 30
Jul 31: Today’s Headlines 4
Jul 30: DOT Expands Car-Free Time in Central Park by One Hour 24
Jul 30: Parking Meters: The Congestion Pricing Controversy of 1932 3
Jul 30: Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way… 7
Jul 30: Today’s Headlines 9
Jul 27: Today’s Headlines 1
Jul 26: Congestion Pricing Process Moves Forward in Albany 2
Jul 26: Smith Street Zombie Invasion? 3
Jul 26: French Revolution 18
Jul 26: Count SUVs for the Brian Lehrer Show Today 2
Jul 26: Today’s Headlines 0
Jul 25: Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of ‘Safety’ Features 13
Jul 25: NYC Government Office Cracks Down on Indoor Bike Parking 13
Jul 25: Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update 0
Jul 25: 4:00pm Gridlock at the 86th Street Boundary 17
Jul 25: Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town 3
Jul 25: Today’s Headlines 2
Jul 24: Congestion Pricing Bill, Take 3. 0
Jul 24: Here is the State Senate’s Congestion Pricing Bill 12
Jul 24: Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene 11
Jul 24: Reconnecting Grand Army Plaza 67
Jul 24: Today’s Headlines 12
Jul 23: Senator in Gridlocked Brooklyn District Has Doubts About Pricing 10
Jul 23: Crain’s: Congestion Pricing Approval is a “Near Certainty” 3
Jul 23: Today’s Headlines 2
Jul 19: Congestion Pricing: Here’s the Deal 51
Jul 19: Lots of Quotes, Few Details on Congestion Pricing Deal 9
Jul 19: Some Sort of Congestion Pricing Deal is Done 11
Jul 19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
Jul 19: Today’s Headlines 2
Jul 18: NYC’s Greenest Building Cracks Down on Bikes (Updated) 30
Jul 18: Bike-Sharing in Berlin 8
Jul 18: The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris. 13
Jul 18: Who Better Represented “the Little Guy” in the Pricing Debate? 22
Jul 18: Today’s Headlines 3
Jul 17: Parking Reform: Reduce Congestion & Raise Money Minus Albany 22
Jul 17: Bloomberg: NYC is Poorer Today Thanks to Albany Inaction 15
Jul 17: Brodsky Killed Congestion Pricing But We Hurt His Feelings 22
Jul 17: Statement from Mayor Bloomberg on Congestion Pricing Failure 22
Jul 17: The Introduction of a New Order of Things 5
Jul 17: Today’s Headlines 9
Jul 16: Park(ing) Day is Coming 27
Jul 16: State Assembly Meeting in Manhattan to Talk Congestion Pricing 4
Jul 16: Today’s Headlines 15
Jul 13: How Do Bike Seizures Fit Into Bloomberg’s “Green Plan” 17
Jul 13: DOT Media Blitz Forthcoming 16
Jul 13: BRT Moving Ahead but City Pushes Back the Timeline a Bit 7
Jul 13: Dollars for Democracy on Brian Lehrer Today 0
Jul 13: Today’s Headlines 6
Jul 12: Odds and Ends 36
Jul 12: Details of Proposed Bus Service Expansion 9
Jul 12: Report: New Parks Dept. Policy to Clip Locks and Seize Bikes 15
Jul 12: Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway 3
Jul 12: New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn 34
Jul 12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26
Jul 12: Today’s Headlines 0
Jul 11: It’s Alive. It’s Dead. It’s Three Men in a Room! 10
Jul 11: London Releases Its Fifth Annual Congestion Pricing Study 2
Jul 11: Today’s Headlines 0
Jul 10: $300+ Million in Bus Improvements Held Hostage in Albany 1
Jul 10: Brodsky Represents NYC’s Wealthiest Car Commuters 15
Jul 10: McCaffrey: The Subway is Crowded. Let’s Keep it That Way. 10
Jul 10: Queens Legislator Offers Congestion Pricing Torpedo 38
Jul 10: StreetFilms Film Festival Tonight in the East Village 0
Jul 10: Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing 1
Jul 10: Today’s Headlines 0
Jul 09: Bloomberg Stadium Foes Urge Silver to Support Pricing 4
Jul 09: If Albany Lawmakers Don’t Go Back to Work, NYC Loses 12
Jul 09: Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry? 54
Jul 09: Mayor and Assembly Headed to a Showdown Over Pricing 9
Jul 09: Today: Dueling Congestion Pricing Press Events 1
Jul 09: Today’s Headlines 3
Jul 07: 7/7/07: The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook 8
Jul 03: Good Stuff in This Week’s Mobilizing the Region 7
Jun 25: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday 1
Jun 22: T.A.’s Dani Simons to Join the DOT Dream Team 7
Jun 22: Blogger Launches Petititon to Revive Dormant Subway Tracks 13
Jun 22: Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover 10
Jun 21: Gov’t Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center 3
Jun 21: “Modal Bias” on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am 18
Jun 20: Leave Your iPod at Home Tomorrow 1
Jun 20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20
Jun 19: New “Bike Boxes” Send Cyclists to the Front of the Line 32
Jun 18: Biking [on the Wrong Side of the Road] is “Normal” [in London] 0
Jun 18: Quinn Announces Her Support for Congestion Pricing 12
Jun 18: No Smoking, Typewriters or Fedoras in This “City Room” 5
Jun 15: It’s the Bus Riders, Stupid. 4
Jun 15: A Bronx Cheer for Congestion Pricing 2
Jun 15: Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday 7
Jun 14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT’s 9th Street Plan 0
Jun 14: If Congestion Pricing Had to be Approved by a Legislature… 11
Jun 13: You Are Invited to Streetsblog’s Birthday Party 3
Jun 13: Man “Tasered” and Arrested for Leaving Airport by Bike 4
Jun 12: DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen 5
Jun 12: Parks Dept: Central Park Cyclists Must Stop at Traffic Signals 58
Jun 12: The King of Albany Gridlock Breaks His Silence 3
Jun 11: Jon Orcutt Appointed as DOT Senior Policy Advisor 8
Jun 11: Albany Advocacy Day 0
Jun 11: Thank Goodness for Dear, Glorious Leader Sheldon Silver 2
Jun 11: Another Big Hire at DOT 5
Jun 08: Cyclists Be Warned: New City Bike Racks May Not be Secure 24
Jun 08: Submit a Congestion Pricing Question to Dr. Horodniceanu 1
Jun 08: Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg 2
Jun 08: PlaNYC Testimony Live on NY1 Right Now 16
Jun 07: I Love This Town But… 0
Jun 07: PlaNYC and Pricing Legislation Introduced. Download it Here. 11
Jun 07: Congestion Pricing Plan Advancing Rapidly 6
Jun 07: Spitzer Backs Congestion Pricing 7
Jun 04: London Finds “No Adverse Impact” Outside Charging Zone 1
Jun 04: Joe Lentol is Worried About Congestion Pricing Park-and-Riders 0
Jun 01: Hit by a Car? Nothing Can be Done Unless You’re Hurt. 15
May 31: Transport for London: You’re Better Off by Bike 3
May 31: Deborah Glick: Devil’s in the Details of Congestion Pricing 9
May 29: DOT Hires Bruce Schaller to Run a New Planning Office 9
May 29: David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing 12
May 29: How Many New Yorkers Actually Commute to the CBD by Auto? 8
May 25: A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets 2
May 25: Introducing Streetsblog Contributor John Kaehny 4
May 25: Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC 3
May 24: New Quinnipiac Poll Measures Opinion on Congestion Pricing 6
May 23: Congestion Pricing: Joan Millman is Not Convinced 29
May 23: Debunking the Attack on Congestion Pricing 2
May 23: Jessica is Lappin’ up the Congestion Pricing Anxiety 12
May 22: Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012 20
May 21: Pricing is Alive. JFK Rail Link and SMART Fund May be Dead. 14
May 21: Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue Street Fair 1
May 18: Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941 6
May 18: John Liu Says He Supports Congestion Pricing 38
May 18: Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design 6
May 18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12
May 17: Time to Expand DOT’s Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15
May 17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2
May 17: Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps 9
May 16: Gridlock Sam on Car-Free Central Park 0
May 16: Aug. ’05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street 5
May 15: Eyes on the Street: Commissioner Sadik-Khan’s Commute 19
May 14: A New Day at DOT 5
May 11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn’t Even a Check Box. 4
May 10: There Are Certain Facts That We’ve All Got to Face Up To 4
May 08: Ninth Street Update: Robert’s Rules of Order 24
May 07: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4
May 07: StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn’s Future Waterfront Greenway 0
May 07: Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling 1
May 03: The Benefits of a “Road Diet.” 1
May 02: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 31
May 01: PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report 7
Apr 30: Eyes on the Street: Critical Mass of U.S. Senators 1
Apr 30: Eyes on the Street: Tour de Senator Schumer 5
Apr 27: Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London 1
Apr 27: Sadik-Khan Has Two Things Her Predecessors Lacked… 2
Apr 27: Sadik-Khan Press Conference Coverage 13
Apr 27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT’s 9th Street Plan 6
Apr 24: Sadik-Khan is Next at DOT 6
Apr 18: SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes 19
Apr 17: Pedi Politics 6
Apr 16: More 9th Street Residents Weigh In on DOT’s Plan 0
Apr 13: Department of Judith 2
Apr 12: Why Hasn’t Mayor Bloomberg Announced Her Replacement? 7
Apr 12: CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem” 39
Apr 11: DOT’s 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions 8
Apr 11: Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT’s Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan 1
Apr 11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9
Apr 11: We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars 7
Apr 10: The Plan: Making Brooklyn’s 9th Street Safer for Everyone 0
Apr 10: Updated Version of DOT’s 9th Street Plan 9
Apr 10: Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT’s 9th Street Plan 0
Apr 09: Take Action: Support the Prince/Bleecker Bike Route Plan 27
Apr 06: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24
Apr 06: Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3
Apr 06: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7
Apr 05: Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection 2
Mar 29: Sneak Peek at DOT’s Plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street 18
Mar 29: Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street? 8
Mar 29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal? 12
Mar 29: A Tale of Two DOT Plans 2
Mar 29: Opposition Brewing to DOT’s Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes 15
Mar 29: A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza 0
Mar 28: Ungrateful Liberal Scum, “We Do Not Summons Our Own.” 36
Mar 26: City Council Fiddles While New York City Chokes on Traffic 27
Mar 20: Meet the New Boss 36
Mar 20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13
Mar 16: DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St. 29
Mar 16: Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive 10
Mar 16: New Sheriff in Chinatown 4
Mar 16: Coverage of Last Night’s Park Slope Meeting 18
Mar 16: DOT’s Park Slope One-Way Presentation 7
Mar 16: Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering 23
Mar 16: Today’s Headlines 2
Mar 15: UncivilServants.org: Cleaning Up Illegal Permit Parking 13
Mar 14: Defending “The Bailey’s” Right to Kung Pao Chicken and an SUV 9
Mar 14: StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way 10
Mar 13: DOT’s Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning? 6
Mar 13: PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall 6
Mar 13: Correction… 0
Mar 12: One Way? No Way. Send a Message to City Hall. 1
Mar 12: Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan 1
Mar 12: DOT Proposes Solution to Houston Street Cycling Danger 59
Mar 11: Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway 10
Mar 09: City Finally Finishes Eight-Year-Long Truck Study 5
Mar 08: Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning 22
Mar 07: DOT’s Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support 13
Mar 05: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7
Mar 05: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0
Mar 01: There’s No Such Thing as “Free Parking” 20
Mar 01: DOT Explains New Traffic Solution. But What’s the Problem? 19
Feb 28: DOT Commissioner Water Cooler Chatter 4
Feb 28: DOT’s Plan for Park Slope Traffic “Improvements” Confirmed 1
Feb 28: DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope 105
Feb 28: Today’s Headlines 3
Feb 27: No Parking Slope 27
Feb 27: Today’s Headlines 11
Feb 26: 3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You? 5
Feb 26: Mass Movement on Two Wheels 14
Feb 26: Introducing StreetFilms.org 11
Feb 26: Today’s Headlines 4
Feb 23: Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention 1
Feb 22: Sources Say… 5
Feb 22: Help us Find Livable Streets Blogs in Cities Outside NYC 29
Feb 21: Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway? 13
Feb 21: 34th Street Partnership Explains the Icey Snow in the Bike Lane 4
Feb 21: Why Wasn’t Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue? 2
Feb 21: Eyes on the Street: Snow Days 6
Feb 20: Kate Ascher: New York City’s Next DOT Commissioner? 3
Feb 20: Will “Atlantic Yards” Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link? 4
Feb 19: DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave 16
Feb 16: DOT Commissioner Update 19
Feb 15: Visualizing a Car-Free Bedford Avenue 41
Feb 15: Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died 16
Feb 14: 2006 Pedestrian Fatality Numbers from DOT 6
Feb 14: NYC Pedestrian Fatalities Up in 2006? 10
Feb 12: Political Deal Results in Bad Pedicab Regulations 6
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