Julianne Cuba
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Employees: Bike New York Must Do More To Become ‘Actively Anti-Racist’
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Current and former employees at Bike New York are calling out the organization for failing to adequately respond to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam
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An influential Manhattan panel voted to return street safety to the DOT. Will Mayor de Blasio heed the call?
NYPD Targets Black and Brown Cyclists for Tickets
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Biking while Black is still a thing in New York City.
More NYC Cyclists Protested For ‘Black Lives Matter’ On Saturday Than Showed Up To Trump’s Rally In Tulsa
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Whose streets? Protesters’ streets.
Seven Black Cyclists Talk About Protest Rides
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The cycling community has so far hosted two massive solidarity rides with Black Lives Matter. We talked to participants about their struggles.
Trek Bicycles Declines To Divest From NYPD Despite ‘Abhorrent’ Use of Bikes Against Protesters
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The company that sells bicycles to the NYPD has refused activists' demands that it divest from its relationship with a brutal department.
Déjà Vu: Another Man Plows Into ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters With His Car In Queens
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Another driver who plowed into demonstrators in Whitestone gets kid-glove treatment from cops.
‘It’s Not Your Bike Anymore’: Police Swipe Bikes at Black Lives Matter March
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Cops aggressively swiped protestors’ and reporters’ bikes during a peaceful protest Wednesday night in Brooklyn — which is illegal.
Council: Mayor Must ‘Think Outside The Box’ When It Comes To Open Streets for Restaurants
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Mayor de Blasio is too myopic when it comes to rethinking street space to help struggling New Yorkers during the COVID-19 crisis, lawmakers charged on Thursday.
Council Seeks To Stop NYPD COVID Race Harassment
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“We are seeing the emergence of stop and frisk 2.0," said one Council Member.
Progressives Worry ‘Open Streets’ Will Become Commercialized And Not Serve Communities in Need
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The city's attempt to create 100 miles of open-streets might end up being controlled by business groups or well-organized neighborhood groups at the expense of hard-hit, suffering communities, advocates and progressive lawmakers are warning.
Pols Keep Making Homelessness a Transit Issue, But it is a Housing Issue
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Kicking homeless people off of subway trains one stop before the end of the line is not a housing policy, advocates say.