Eve Kessler
Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
Traffic from Car-Driving Charter School Parents Vexes Upper Manhattan; City Provides No Oversight
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And it is about to get worse as two new charters are planning to open in the area.
Sanitation Dept. Hires McKinsey for Containerization Study
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The global management consultancy will assist in designing a citywide pilot to get trash off sidewalks and into large bins.
Manhattan Community Board Demands Stricter Sanitation Rules for Apartments
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Community Board 4 wrote to Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch to outline a raft of new regulations that could curtail New York's infamous "5 o'clock shadow" — and unanimously offered the neighborhood as a laboratory for change.
NYCHA To Lead City on Containerization of Trash
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The nation's largest housing authority will lead the city's effort on waste containerization, according to documents.
Sanitation Dept’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Program Spreads to Staten Island
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Brooklyn's Pitkin Avenue BID also gets a trash corral as the containerization effort moves into more locations.
NACTO Pushes Back as Big Auto Seeks Safety Exemption for Driverless Cars
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The national association of city transportation officials cries foul as Ford and GM try an end run around the NHTSA for cars without steering wheels and brakes.
ANALYSIS: Can New York Mandate Speed Governors on New Cars?
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Advocates are cheering a first-in-the-nation New York bill that would mandate speed-limiting technology in new cars and would limit large passenger vehicles that have blind spots that endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. But does New York even have the authority to regulate cars this way? And would the law be doomed to a […]
NYC to Contractors: We Want To Get Serious About Trash Containerization
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Forget about the small-ball (and bin!) pilots. This is the Big Kehuna — a 'scalable' pilot that will modify 'sanitation fleets and staffing practices.'
New Bill Would Mandate Speed Governors and Set Limits on Huge SUVs
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Sen. Brad Hoylman introduces what he says is a first-in-the-nation effort to make active safety technology standard on new cars.
To Fix Inflation And Climate Change, Get Americans out of Cars
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Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.
After an Epic Fail, the City Relaunches Residential Composting
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The Sanitation Department will begin universal organics pick-up in one borough — Queens — on Oct. 3. Will it work this time?
Amtrak Abruptly Stops Bike Service on ‘Maple Leaf’
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The cancellation cuts a key northbound route for city bikers who want to pick up the 750-mile Empire State Trail in Western New York.