Eve Kessler
Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
New App Helps Drivers Thumb Their Noses at Speed Cameras
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Even as Albany lawmakers slow-walk the renewal of New York's speed camera system, a new cellphone app is helping reckless drivers avoid the devices entirely.
Scooter Company Bird Claims it Has the Tech to Stop Sidewalk Parking
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The e-scooter-share company Bird will reward you for combatting the single-biggest complaint about scooters: riders who leave them all over the sidewalk.
Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
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The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
‘We Need New Station Houses Because of NYPD’s Illegal Parking’: Communities
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The antidote to illegal cop parking? Why, more parking, of course, say many community boards.
THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds
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Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes.
TRASH TALK: Advocates Warn Against Delays on Commercial Waste Zones
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They don't trust them as far as they can throw them.
Design Trust Releases Public Space Management ‘Toolkit’
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Group seeks to smooth way for small-fry community and business organizations in 'placemaking' efforts.
STEAL THIS IDEA: Denver Offering Rebates on E-Bike Purchases
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Colorado is high ... on getting e-bikes into the hands of drivers.
City Will Extend Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs
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A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?
Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures
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The 'Clean Curbs' program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.
Got Commercial Trash? The Sanitation Department Has $20K for Your Project
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The city will spend an almost infinitesimal amount of money on a problem with monumental repercussions.
Bronx Pol Objects to DOT’s Move on ‘Road Diet’
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A Bronx Council member is fighting a city proposal to calm traffic on an overwide, dangerous road in the northwest part of the borough — a proposal that has drawn support from a progressive candidate for state Senate.